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Colonial Inn & Creamery

2.5 star property

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Reception
Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets
Exterior
Indoor wedding
Front of property

Reviews

7.6 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Free WiFi
  • Air conditioning
  • Housekeeping
$133
$119 nightly
$133 total
Total with taxes and fees
Mar 10 - Mar 11

Explore the area

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701 North Franklin St., Watkins Glen, NY, 14891
  • Place, Watkins Glen State Park
    ‪2 min walk‬
  • Place, The Tasting Room
    ‪5 min walk‬
  • Place, Seneca Harbor
    ‪8 min walk‬
  • Airport, Ithaca, NY (ITH-Tompkins Regional)
    ‪45 min drive‬

Room options

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 Queen Bed, Motel Style

7.8 out of 10
Good
(7 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

2 Full Beds, Motel Style

7.6 out of 10
Good
(12 reviews)
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 King Bed, Motel Style

7.2 out of 10
Good
(13 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 Queen Bed and 1 Single Bed, Motel Style

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 Full Bed, Inn Style

8.8 out of 10
Excellent
(6 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 Queen Bed, Inn Style

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(22 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

2 Bedroom Suite, Inn Style

7.6 out of 10
Good
(5 reviews)
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Double Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 Queen Bed and 1 Single Bed, Inn Style

8.8 out of 10
Excellent
(3 reviews)
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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Iron/ironing board, free WiFi, bed sheets

1 Full Bed, Inn Style

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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About the neighborhood

Watkins Glen

When you stay at Colonial Inn & Creamery in Watkins Glen, you'll be in a state park, a 1-minute drive from Watkins Glen State Park and 9 minutes from Watkins Glen International. .This motel is 0.2 mi (0.4 km) from The Tasting Room and 0.5 mi (0.7 km) from Seneca Harbor.
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What's nearby

  • Watkins Glen State Park - 2 min walk - 0.1 miles
  • The Tasting Room - 5 min walk - 0.3 miles
  • Seneca Harbor - 8 min walk - 0.5 miles
  • International Motor Racing Research Center - 11 min walk - 0.6 miles
  • Watkins Glen Beach - 18 min walk - 1.0 mile

Getting around

  • Elmira, NY (ELM-Elmira - Corning Regional) - 32 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Burger King - ‬6 min walk
  • ‪Dunkin' - ‬8 min walk
  • ‪Pudgies Pizza - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Jerlando's Ristorante - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Blue Ribbon Diner - ‬5 min drive

About this property

Colonial Inn & Creamery

Colonial Inn & Creamery offers 14 air-conditioned accommodations with irons/ironing boards and complimentary toiletries. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels.

Bathrooms include showers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided daily.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 14 air-conditioned rooms featuring microwaves and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include irons/ironing boards, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless internet access and a picnic area.
Free self parking is available onsite.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free uncovered self parking on site

Things to do

  • Wine tours

Family friendly

  • In-room microwave

Conveniences

  • Virtual front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)

Outdoors

  • In a state park
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Picnic area

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • No elevator
  • Visual fire alarm
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible registration desk

More

  • 2 buildings
  • 2 floors
  • Built in 1855
  • Colonial architecture
  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with cable channels

Food and drink

  • Microwave

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Iron/ironing board

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 4:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 21

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
Guests can access their accommodation through a private entrance
A virtual front desk provides assistance to guests
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Access code, private entrance

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted
Cashless transactions are available
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, and a first aid kit

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

Colonial Inn Motel Watkins Glen
Colonial Watkins Glen
The Colonial Inn Motel
Colonial Inn & Creamery Motel
Colonial Inn & Creamery Watkins Glen
Colonial Inn & Creamery Motel Watkins Glen

Colonial Inn & Creamery Reviews

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 204 out of 536 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 155 out of 536 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 68 out of 536 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 66 out of 536 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 43 out of 536 reviews

7.8/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Walter, Farmingdale

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
Clean room easy parking.
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

Rebecca

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

4/10 Poor

Martha, Henrietta

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities
Very cute place. Love the history but no tv remote in one of the bedrooms. Rooms could be cleaner. No towel rack in bathroom. Also some sort of presence touched me on the back in the bedroom with the fridge in it after getting into pajamas, so much so that my heart rate spiked and we ended up driving back to Rochester at midnight, as neither of us could sleep after that.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

8/10 Good

Elaine

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

8/10 Good

ROBERT

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
the room could have been cleaner. we ran out of toilet paper. We noticed that there was no smoke detector. We had to hook up a different TV to replace the one that had a black streak running down the screen. There were several bathroom tiles that were completely broken loose. It was a convenient location though and the bed was comfortable.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

2/10 Terrible

TERRENCE

Traveled with partner
The place was so seedy looking and dead that when we had trouble using the keyless entry to take the room we decided to not even stay there and booked another hotel 15 miles away.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

guy

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean room
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

Karla

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

8/10 Good

Randa, Lansing

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Simple hotel in a good location. Room was clean and comfy. They sent us a door code so we didn't have to worry about the check in time.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

4/10 Poor

patricia

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

Maria

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Margaret was super welcoming and helpful! The room was very clean and had everything we needed! I would definitely stay here again!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2025

8/10 Good

Dmitry

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was ok - clean and with all the amenities. Only issue is that - at least in the main building - walls are paper thin so the moment your neighbors wake up (next door or upstairs ) , your sleep is over . Also very high-tech - check-in via email and ets with entry codes for the doors so make sure you are ok with the modern tech .
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025

4/10 Poor

Judy

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
The location and the safety was the only thing good about this room. It was part of the main so I felt safe as a solo traveler. But actually checking into the hotel was difficult, had to do everything online and called two people before one of them called me back to let me in so very slow process. I waited in the lobby for quite some time. Then ended up back at my car waiting until someone called me back so I could go in and check in. I could not get the TV on the remote control seem to be dead so I turned it on with a button on the TV but I couldn’t do anything else. So I shut it back up.I called that same number a couple of times to say the room was freezing cold. No one ever called me back. I looked in every closet in every drawer and could not find any extra blankets and could not find any, so I had to sleep in layers of my clothes and my nose was frozen. I only slept a couple hours and could not get warm so I left and went out to my car and warmed up with the seat heaters. I would definitely not come again and I definitely would not recommend.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

WILLIAM, CATONSVILLE

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities
The room was fine however there was no controllable heat in the room. It was freezing all night.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

WILLIAM, CATONSVILLE

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
The room was fine however there was no controllable heat in the room. It was freezing all night.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

Ashlyn

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
It was okay. Room was tidy and neat. Checkin was a process. The vibes were interesting. Did not feel the safest here while solo traveling
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

4/10 Poor

Jeanne

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Smoke detector removed from room. Fluctuating water temp in shower - would become scalding hot
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

4/10 Poor

Tammy

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
The mattress was awful. Sagging in the middle so badly we kept rolling to the center. We felt like a human taco! The bed is the most important thing in the room the room. The carpet was very dirty. I can’t comment on the staff because there weren’t any… off season so self check-in
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

8/10 Good

Tseng Fong

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
My room was not cleaned prior to my check in late afternoon. Difficult to find hotel staff.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025

2/10 Terrible

Jill

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The photos are deceptive, it is an old motor lodge that has been cheaply and poorly remodeled. Window wouldn’t close, sits on noisy highway, and the TV was broken It is way over priced for what you get. Towels and sheets were nice if you don’t mind sleeping on an extremely soft mattress.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Steven

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Decent sized rooms TV remote was tough to use but other than that it was fine
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

Sean

Disliked: Cleanliness
Adequate for a quick overnight stay.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

2/10 Terrible

Gladys, Merrick

Traveled with group
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Parking very limited with tight spaces. Window view, horrible. No TV connection.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025