Perfect room for those who want a lake view.
The Rose Room | Lake View Room with Nine-Foot Ceilings | Eleven Gables Inn, Lake Geneva
nine foot ceilings
ceiling fan
private bath
free wi-fi
free movie streaming
Second floor overlooking the lake with windows on two sides.
No pets (dogs) allowed is this accommodation.
The Rose Room makes a quiet case for itself.
It sits on the second floor of the 1867 inn with windows on two sides and nine-foot plaster ceilings — original plaster, not a renovation approximation, with the weight and finish of a material that was applied by hand and has been settling into itself for a century and a half. The lake view from this room is one of the better ones in the building, framed by windows that were positioned when Geneva Lake was the primary reason anyone came to this part of Wisconsin, and sized accordingly.
There is no air conditioning in the Rose Room. This is not an oversight. The two-sided window placement creates a cross ventilation that moves lake air through the room in a way that mechanical cooling tends to interrupt rather than improve. The ceiling fan handles the rest. Old buildings in lake towns were engineered for exactly this kind of summer comfort before anyone thought to seal the windows and recirculate the air, and the Rose Room is a working example of how well that engineering holds up.
The lake view, for its part, makes up for anything else. It is the view that guests in this room describe first when they talk about their stay — not the plaster ceilings, not the cross ventilation, not the queen bed or the private bath or the streaming TV, though all of those things are present and accounted for. The lake is what the room is about, and the room is honest about that.
No pets. From $225/night.
Eleven Gables Inn and Cottage. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Ninety minutes from Chicago, sixty from Milwaukee.
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