I went to The Woods this past week and stayed 5 nights. I was in town for business, and had to work during the day. The weather was extremely hot, so the jacuzzi tub was a perfect way to relax after working all day. The staff was very nice, friendly and helpful.

I went to the pub several times, the drink prices are very fair. The service was excellent. Joy, the bartender went out of her way to make everyone feel like a welcome friend.

I enjoyed sitting on the deck in the mornings drinking my coffee and watching many deer walking around in the woods. From what I could tell, most rooms have an incredible wooded view.

The housekeeping department did a fabulous job. When they noticed I am a coffee drinker, they left extra coffee for me every morning.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed my stay.

I've been to this resort a few times with my husband. We have stayed in the Walden lodge (and have also rented private cabins through Berkeley Springs Cottage Rentals). I think it's a terrific place for an escape.
Pros
The Golf courses are great...one is for experienced players...another for newbies.
Tennis options include both outdoor and an indoor court
Two outdoor pools, both really nice.
The indoor sports center is well equipped. I took a pilates class...fun.
There ARE nice trails around the place but you have to search to find them (follow the maps). One warning: Do not venture out during hunting season...Nov - Feb.
The spa is nice to have - prices are reasonable.
I have found everybody in the resort to be friendly.
It's close to Berkeley Springs and Shepherdstown...both really fun!
Cons
Food is just OK and the prices are too high. They really should revamp the menus...maybe get a new chef. With a spa there, this is a perfect place to feature healthy, organic food...much like Berkeley Springs. At least have a spa special for those of us who like a good healthy option. I tried a pork dish...did NOT like it. Servers were friendly though.
The bugs. Nothing they can do about this but those little gnat things are highly annoying...and seem to come out when it's really humid.
The rooms are basic. If you have a group or want more room to spread out, try one of the cabins rented by B Springs Cottage Rentals. Great decks. Hot tubs. Full cooking facilities. These are REAL retreats and it's great to have use of the resort at the same time. Plus you can usually bring your pets!

I stayed at The Woods for one night, a quick getaway for reflection, my intention was to walk the trails they had advertised and just stay in the room enjoying a soaking bath after the sunset. I stayed at Walden Lodge number 34.The room was very poorly decorated with mismatched carpet and curtains, very old and dark furniture. The heat provided by a very noisy unit, after 2 hours I couldn't stand the noise anymore and prefered to wear my jacket inside the room to do not feel cold. The staff less than courteous, when I asked about the trails they pointed to the brochure, when I showed difficulty with the trails they didn't leave the desk to help me out they just insisted that I should read and decide which trail to walk. The worse part was when I attempted to take a bath, the bathtub was dirty, with hair all over, I called the front desk and they sent me a 81 year old smily lady, that advised me she works for the laundry, the lady handed me the rag and the spray and asked me to clean the bathtub. The poor lady could not do it. I called the manager and instead of hear a big apology to begin with he started saying the housekeeping usually does an outsdanding job, after I insisted I am not paying $123.00 for one night to clean the bathtub myself ,he said he would give me a discount . By the way, I took a quick shower and I didn't find any marked trails and ended up only walking around the hotel. I won't come back to this resort, I am glad I didn't bring my family with me. The Woods - expensive, dirty and the staff not kind at all!

The Short Version: This is my 2nd stay and this time we stayed in the Pinecrest Cabins and it was GREAT! They've recently been renovated, they are beautiful, and I recommend them highly. The restaurant, not so much: The prices on that menu belong in a different restaurant :). If you stay in the cabins, Bring Your Own Food.

The Long Version:

The Pros: Lovely newly renovated cabins; three (3!) flat screen tv's in our room (living room, bedroom and BATHroom!); fireplace w/ remote control; full kitchen with plates, pans, silverware; lovely windows floor to ceiling and woods surrounding; wood and marble floors, carpet in the bedroom; large jacuzzi tub.

The Cons: the shower head over the tub - there's just no way not to get water everywhere, all along the edge of the tub and there's no drain so it runs out and onto the floor and you're sure you'll break your neck getting in and out; the sleep comfort bed - at first I thought this was a plus, we both controlled the soft/firmness of our sides of the bed, but I couldn't ever find a comfortable setting and the mattress didn't quite fit the frame so we both repeatedly kicked our shins on the end of the bed. The restaurant, see below.

Pro/Con: the furniture in the living room is like sitting on fabric covered concrete :), but we opened the fold out couch and lounged in the bed to watch the rain out our windows and read our books so it worked just fine!

We worked our way around the room cons so they aren't factoring too heavily in my rating.


Now, about that restaurant.

It went into the realm of so bad I couldn't stop the giggles. All the people around us seemed to be having a great time I suspect they, too, had gone beyond being able to be angry and into pure hilarity. They were out of our first 2 choices of wine, waitress left the 3rd choice bottle with us after she cut herself on it for US to open with the same sharp edge, our first glass of wine had lipstick and hubby set it aside and she finally came back halfway through the meal to ask DID HE NOT WANT THAT (?!), it took her 10 minutes to even bring a clean glass because she had forgotten. The food was a.w.f.u.l. for his meal, we think it must have cooked for hours with rubber shrimp and the edges of the sausage had cooked so much they curled up. My $22 medium-well steak was actually burned! Burned! The cook flipped it so the burnt side was down and I was halfway done before I hit the charcoal. People at a table nearby asked for a comment card, and then left so the busboy came over and picked it up and READ THEIR COMMENTS OUT LOUD TO THE ROOM. He was directing them to a waitress cleaning a table nearby, but I certainly got to hear what that couple hadn't liked so I turned to my husband and said "we won't be bothering with a comment card." Even as I write this I'm getting the giggles again! We asked for two wineglasses to take back to our room to finish the bottle with, and wouldn't you know it - got to the room AND SHE'D GIVEN US THE SAME GLASS! That, or they are so terrible at washing them we had the luck to get TWO out of five wineglasses with lipstick on the rim! Fantastic! As long-winded as I'm being, I'm not even sharing ALL of it, just the highlights!

The restaurant shares a wall with the pub and sometime in there a guy comes in and starts making 'music', ooooooh. There's a door that opens between the two so our meal was accommpanied by 'whomp whomp whomp' muffled singing and comedy with the occasional "WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP" not muffled singing and comedy when someone opened that door - tremendously loud!

Dessert: the waitress listed dessert, a whole bunch of tarts and a chocolate mousse pie/cake. I said I knew didn't want a tart and she ....she....she said..." Do you know what a tart is?" Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So we got the chocolate mousse, only it's cheesecake with a chocolate graham cracker crust. I really really wanted to ask "do you know what a mousse is?" Alas, i was still dealing with a monster case of the giggles. :)

In their defense: We didn't compain. We were there to relax and enjoy ourselves, not get angry and chance having our pie spit on. So while she could have given us some credit for a wasted glass of wine, or asked why neither of us finished our dinner, we also did not voluteer more than "can we have clean glassware please." We tried the pub food menu the next night because we were so lazy in our room we didn't get ready for dinner until it was too late to go anywhere (really, the closest decent place to eat is 20-30 min drive) and, by golly, even the pub food was bad. The burger, that is it, the burger was good :), go for the burger if you really have to eat there!