Hound Ears Club - Club in Boone - 328 Shulls Mill Rd, USA

Hound Ears is such an amazing place! We love coming up to “High Country” from SoFla during the summer months. It is a great escape from the heat. The staff memebers at the club are courteous and kind and the food in the dining room is delicious. The golf course is great, the state of the art fitness center has a picturesque view of Grandfather Mountain, and the hiking trails are beautiful! We also enjoyed a casual lunches at the Tee House! We love this mountain community!

What an awesome place to be and relax, play golf and enjoy the Mountain Views!

I love North Carolina. Hound Ears Golf Club is a hidden gem in the Blue Ridge Mountains! The staff, accomodations, food and golf course were exceptional. As a Golf Professonal and Tour Operator, my expecttions are seldom met. In this case, my wife and I were extremely pleased. Highly recommended.

What a beautiful spot in the mountains!! The accommodations at the club (3 suites and one bedroom style) are warm and inviting. It reminded me very much of staying at home-just that kind of cozy and well appointed and clean throughout. The staff was very helpful and welcoming. There is 24/7 access to the snack/continental breakfast room with a lot to choose! The club restaurant fed us one of the best meals we’ve ever eaten out. All in our party of 5 were thrilled with our choices-beef stroganoff, sea bass, trout, steak…and the buffalo cauliflower-better order two! Club Pie - it’s delicious and enormous- two slices satisfied our entire party. They also have a well appointed gym and beautiful pool in the surrounding neighborhood, complete with a waterfall and snack bar. It’s really a special community in the mountains.

We call HE Shangri-La. It’s heaven in the NC mountains. The people are amazing, the views are spectacular and the golf course is perfect. The other amenities are perfect too, fitness center, tennis, Pickleball and the dinning.

Beginning with the Gate Guard - rude and no list of Inn Guests||Check-in: No "Welcome to the Inn". Rude, and could care less we were checking in. ||Parking: Not marked, told to move car to lower lot. No offer to have valet do it.||Rooms: Very dated, cluttered, window units for HVAC. Dogwood Suite on roadway, noisy. Cheap towels, no bath mat.||Dining: called ahead 3 times to have Cabernet chilled. Never done until check-in with Bartender.||Dining room: Great setting overlooking beautiful golf course. Stunning fireplace and mantel. At 8:35 PM, first course of real wood died. Told no more firewood - Really?!||Food/Menu: Very good, 2 menus, although we were only given one. Bar menu is the better way to order. Both menus reasonable. Dessert menu is awesome.||Service: Our waiter was a really nice young college athlete. Overall, staff is poorly trained, no continuity. No supervision. Clueless. Nice young staff, but not trained or supervised to a higher standard of service. ||Continental Breakfast room: An absolute joke. Day old (maybe older) muffins and bagels. Note: Don't even ask for fresh brewed coffee. It doesn't exist.||Wake Up call at 0441 AM. Newspapers delivered Sunday morning with glaring stereo just outside the window. Then at 0700 a back up alarm - leaf blower in parking lot.||Check-out: Presumptuous, could care less about a guest, and never asked how was your stay? ||||Probably best they didn't ask. An absolute awful experience. Should have asked for a refund for the room night. 16 hours was $240 plus tax. This Inn needs some real changes soon before the word gets out. Some simple updates, staff training, and new management would be a good start. ||||Stayed Saturday night, October 15th. Will not return.

Great location between Boone, Banner Elk and Blowing Rock. Easy 2 1/2 hour drive from Charlotte. Beautiful golf course, hiking trails, pool and tennis courts, and gorgeous clubhouse -restaurants. It is so fun to take kids for golf cart rides every day. My husband also loves fly fishing on the Watauga River which flows through the development. We liked it so much that we bought a summer home in Hound Ears.

My experiences are from the mid 1990's but may serve as some historical insight. My wife and I visited Hound Ears twice.....Both times over the Christmas holiday. We had to make reservations months in advance as at the time they had a very small number of guests who were there and as I recall, they were only open for 2 weeks or so during that period of time. At any rate, the experience as a whole, or viewed individually, as culinary, service, facility, staffing and/or atmosphere all received the same rating from both myself and my wife. 5 Stars. While there we met some incredible people who had come from all over the world to stay there only over the Christmas holiday. Of course I don't want to exclude the owner of several Ford dealerships from our home town, Ft. Lauderdale FL who we met the first night there. To give you an idea of the service, as we sat down in front of the huge fireplace and watched the mountains through the beautiful windows overlooking part of the golf course (closed at this time) my wife ordered a drink a portion of which included whipped cream on the top. As the service person delivered the drink, a Chef in immaculate white uniform and tall starched hat came up the spiral staircase at a fast clip with a genuine goat or sheep skinned piping bag, full of freshly made whipped cream which he expertly applied to my wife's beverage. And......the whipped cream, regardless of the presentation was EXCELLENT! We're going back up there this week to look around and see if anyone we knew from our prior two trips still works there. I hope we find it as we left it. Mixed with the heavy snow that occurred both times we were there and the wonderful staff, facility and other guests, this is a remarkable place that was perfectly able to provide you with incredible experiences you might remember for a lifetime.