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Hotel Leger
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
4 reviews for Hotel Leger
Only visited for a couple hours to take a stretch break, but wow what a lovely place. Strolled through the old downtown and checked out some of the historic plaques before hitting the Leger's period saloon for a beer (for me) and some coffee (for my wife). Three notes:
- the beer was cold
- the coffee was strong
- the hotel is one of a kind
Interesting spot. Beautifully appointed with antiques and historic photographs. The old wood floors were enough to make me happy, but everywhere I looked there was some old piece of furniture...a lamp from the 30's, a mirror from the 1850's...that just made me want to wander around and take it all in.
Regarding the wandering: you might not want stroll the place by yourself if you're easily alarmed. I had two somewhat odd occurrences. I'd heard the place was haunted, but it was a bright sunny day AND I was with someone so why would I be nervous? I'm a proud skeptic, I've never thought Quji boards were legit, but the two instances, though minor, were spooky nonetheless:
1) As I was walking toward one of the old original entrances, the two glass french doors (which were already closed) suddenly sort of banged together tighter as if kicked or pushed shut.
It was sudden enough that I stopped about three feet from the doors, hands still in my pockets. I looked around the door frame for some sort of sensor (like those doors that unlock and open automatically for the wheelchair-bound) and, upon not seeing one, I turned to my companion and ask if she'd heard the doors close. She said yes and asked me why I'd kicked the door. When I said I hadn't we shared a sort of "that was eerie" look. I then tested floorboards near the door to see if perhaps there was an old warped board that might have caused the doors to slip. The floor was rock solid. Hmmm.
What's stranger...and while it sounds crazy as I re-read it, I'm being honest here: as I walked towards the door I wondered to myself whether I could open the door, as I'd seen one of those keypad locks small hotels use for late-arriving guests on the outside as we walked into the saloon. Literally a split second after the thought crossed my mind, the door made the noise before I could even get my hands out of my pockets to reach for the handle.
OK, no big deal. Maybe it was a timely wind, even though it was a dead calm kind of day. That's it: sudden gust of wind. Let's move on.
2) As we were leaving the saloon we chatted with a hostess briefly. She asked us if we wanted to explore the rooms upstairs, as there was only one guest around (in room One - the other twelve were unoccupied). We assumed this meant with her, so we followed her back to the old front door from where we'd just come, which was adjacent to the stairs.
She talked briefly about the hotel and the historic pictures (never mentioning any ghosts or hauntings). Then, once she was done I asked if maybe we should all head up and check out the rooms. She told us to go up the stairs past the old, large photo of the original owner (George Leger) and feel free to explore.
Not only did we feel it was odd she didn't come up with us, but she also mentioned, in an innocent kind of way, "the eyes in Leger's photo never seemed to leave you". Interesting: mysterious earlier door noise + life-size enlargement of 100-year-old photo of the deceased hotel owner that always looks at you. Nothing spooky about that.
So we head upstairs and start looking at the rooms. They're awesome. Antiques everywhere with some of the coolest old dressers and beds I've seen. Great views of the town out the windows, sunlight streaming in.
Then we get to room Seven, supposedly the room haunted by the owner. Nice room much like the others. We go in and, within a minute, I ask my wife if her scalp is tingling. Her's isn't, but mine is. It's like the old "spider-sense" was really buzzing. My hairs were standing on end.
Perhaps I was freaking myself out because of the door noise. I shrugged off my anxiety, leaving the room to explore and, after a couple minutes, the feeling subsided. I thought to myself "maybe I was just weirding myself out". So I go back in and, instantly the same feeling returns. OK. Cool. My scalp and brain are apparently scared and I don't understand why. This is not logical adult-scared, but sort of kid-scared: like when I was a child and would lay completely still, frozen with fear when the Sand People started making those disturbing gurgling howls on the illegal audio tape of Star Wars I listened to at bedtime, even though I knew Sand People were not coming to get me from under my bed. This feeling was definitely unusual and, because I couldn't pin down why it was happening, it made it all the more eerie. Time to head back down.
All that said, definitely worth a visit. And the food menu looked pretty good. Very moderately priced. Enjoy!
A weekend here is like stepping back in time. It is a gorgeous, historic building with antique furniture and three of my favorite things: a veranda, a balcony and a patio. Whether you are lying by the pool in the beautiful garden, eating delicious food in the dining room or living it up in the in-house saloon, you will notice that this family-run establishment is managed with care.
And if you get a chance: ask one of the owners, Ron, Jane or Ashley to show you the basement. It's really, really interesting,
We stayed here on our honeymoon, after we heard about this hotel while telling ghost stories on a camp out.
Of course, before we stayed there, we thought the ghost stories were a marketing ploy. We were WRONG. The hotel is truly haunted, so if you're a pansy, or get freaked out by loud, late night paranormal activity, this may not be the hotel for you. However, if you want to stay in a beautifully appointed, unpretentious hotel with great views and food, and consider ghosts that open the windows on your room/cry all night in the room next door/walk around on the balcony/make loud thumping noises a bonus, this is a perfect spot for a honey moon/romantic get away. You see, I should have told my husband about the ghosts before we went up there, but he was a good sport overall.
The owners of the Hotel Leger - Ron and Jane - are super warm and friendly and make delicious eats and drinks in their Victorian bar/dining room. They also are founts of information about the area. The locals in the bar are fun. It is a beautiful, quiet (except for the ghosts) and relaxing location.
Our favorite place to stay in the Gold Country. Moke Hill is a very small town, not much to do except take bike rides through the historic areas and smell the roses. Often there will be gnarly biker dudes at the bar down the street who ride the "other" kind of bike.
The Hotel Leger is allegedly haunted, but we're not sure if the noises we heard at night were ghosts, or just the owner's dogs running the halls. "Roughing it" style rooms will run you about $75-$100...no TV's or air conditioning, but charming in a non-cutesy way...this is no quaint "B and B" and you won't be drowning in chintz.