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B & B's Country Garden Inn
Categories: Hotels & Travel Bed & Breakfast Event Planning & Services Bed & Breakfast, Event Planning & Services [Edit]
1041 Kelly RdApex, NC 27502
(919) 851-3171
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 6 am - 5:30 am
2 reviews for B & B's Country Garden Inn
2 reviews in English
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Review from Kristy M.
Apex, NC
1/16/2012
I read the previous review and felt compelled to yelp. I was married and had my wedding reception at the inn five years ago. It was really important to me to have my wedding and reception in the same location. I also wanted everything included in one lump package (I did not want to worry about finding a caterer, planner, pastor, and so on and pay them individually). So on September 8 of 2006 my best friends, my mother, my grandmother, my aunt and uncle, and I all checked in B&B. We rented the whole inn for the entire weekend. We had free reign of the inn, drank wine, and hung out in the hot tub all evening. Saturday morning I woke up with my friends and we ate breakfast that was provided by the owner. The food was delicious. As I was leaving the inn to go get my hair and nails done the event planner was busy setting up for the event. The wedding went as planned for the most part. The inn did have a bit of problems with the AC and September 9, 2006 was a very hot day. Luckily by the wedding time the AC was back working, but my cake did melt a little bit (it had been there since early that morning). My husband and I spent our first night as a married couple in the Blue Bonnet Room. The downside is that 540 is now destroying the lovability of the inn. I wouldn't want to stay there or get married with all of the new road construction going on. The other thing that stinks is that they took away the hot tub. Oh well. It was a lovely wedding location, but I would not get married there now dues to the new road.
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Review from K S.
Chicago, IL
9/17/2010
Please beware of this business. We had our wedding reception here over 6 years ago and I am still upset regarding how I felt we were misled. My new hubby and I also stayed overnight. Weeks in advance, we asked the owner, "How long can we have the reception?" to which she responded we could have it as long as we wanted because it's the "saddest thing in the world" to cut someone's wedding reception short. Well surprise, at 9pm the night of the reception, while dancing outdoors, the owner informed my mother that we had to turn off the music due to an Apex noise ordinance. We later found out from Apex police there is no such ordinance (my dad called). Also, this inn is on a huge piece of land, and the music was not that loud. When we asked to move the dancing inside the inn, the owner told an elaborate story of how a honeymooning couple had been dropped off, checked in, and they immediately went upstairs to their room. Of course this sounded fishy; why would a honeymooning couple be dropped off at an inn in the middle of nowhere while a wedding reception was going on? We found out later there was no such couple, but the owner planned ahead with her story and had even put a "do not disturb" sign on the "couple's" door. We should've been told upfront, when we initially asked, that we could have the reception until 9pm instead of being manipulated by such unethical tactics. We could've planned things better. It still doesn't make sense to us. If the innkeeper wanted to go home for the night, aren't there nicer ways to plan this ahead instead of not being truthful about multiple things? It was embarrassing to skip over many planned songs and suddenly announce that we had to play our last song. Our guests (and we) were shortchanged. They traveled from across the country to be with us, and our time with them was awkwardly cut short. I want to warn future brides to get every detail regarding your wedding planning in writing so things like this don't happen to you; we were too trusting. Also, some food served at dinner was tasteless and unacceptable. Six years later I still remember that dry beef. Future brides, you would be wise to take your business elsewhere!! Sure, the suite we stayed in was comfortable, but how can we recommend a place run in such a manner?
Specialties
Weddings, bridal/baby showers, birthday parties, office get-togethers. The Inn is open 24/7.
History
Established in 1997
B & B Country Garden Inn was previously owned by the McLaurin family, and was the second of two homes located on a working horse farm. The home was moved to its present location in 1996. It was purchased late in 1997 by Bud and Beth McKinney and converted into a bed and breakfast.
B&B is short for Bed and Breakfast as well as the initials of Bud and Beth. The home is located in the country on eight plus acres of ponds and gardens. This bed and breakfast is a relaxed down-to-earth inn.
Each room has been individually named in honor of family members of the McKinneys. The home has a flair for relaxation and good times.
