Buttonwood Inn on Mount Surprise

Great location, the Inn was reasonable priced, friendly innkeepers, pretty good food, room was comfy. Not much not to like.

Excellent, quiet, and quaint bed and breakfast. Easy access to North Conway and its many restaurants. Beds were comfy and breakfast was delicious, with bottomless coffee. However, the best thing about the inn are the hosts, Donna and Doug. They are warm, engaging and personable. The best hosts we have encountered. We look forward to our next visit!

The Inn is frankly a disappointment in many (but not all) ways. First, the positive: the room and bed we had was comfortable. Parking was fine, but I saw no ramp for us to get out bags up to check-in. The coffee was available at 7:30 and good. The negatives (a sampler only). Our room like the public seating areas is over-filled with irrelevant tchotchkes, including on the nightstand. For example, who needs a small framed photo of the region beside the bed? That takes away space we need for anything needed in the night. The main sitting area is similarly cluttered. Most surprisingly was when our party (3 couples) moved a couple of chairs so we could have a short planning session, the owner was quick to make sure we would move the chairs back! Breakfast for all the hype in the website was a disappointment. First, beginning breakfast at 8:30 is likely convenient for the owners, but we came to North Conway to view the autumn colors, not wait and wait for breakfast (we were finally served at close to 9:30 AM). [the owner inexplicably did have time to tour around the breakfast room photographing the guests......why?] Breakfast was not worth the wait...we indeed got a bit of food around 8:30 -- a small, dense muffin sitting isolated on a plate that tasted like chocolate (carob?). We waited another 40 min. before the "main" part of breakfast arrived: scrambled eggs, served at approx. room temp. and fried potatoes, dull, dull. We quickly ate this modest fare, checked-out and hit the road an hr after we intended. This is not a top-end property and we would have been a lot happier at a regular motel in town.