The Wynstone - Bed & breakfast in Newport - 232 Spring St, USA

The hospitality excels at The Wynstone, one of the Inns of Newport group. Rick, the owner greeted us with warmth, humor, and an upgrade. He was informative about the inns and the area and helpful with directions and suggestions for restaurants. Our room at The Wynstone was spacious, comfortable, and attractive, with period art, a beautiful fireplace, and a lovely bathroom with a Jacuzzi tub. It was an easy walk to the sites we wanted to visit. When traveling, we always seek accommodations that reflect the character and history of a place, and Rick has honored those elements in his inns. We will always choose them when staying in Newport. Thank you Rick!

We knew as we peered in the glass doors of this Victorian house that things were not going to be great BUT never expected them to be so awful. The mouldy smell greets you at the front door and overwhelms the entire building. ||The carpets are heavily patterned, stained and dated. ||The joinery all needs painting. The window glass needs cleaning & some repairing. The window frames need replacing. The strings on the dark brown wooden Venetian blinds were ALL broken and tied back together. The curtains do not draw back so the rooms are extremely dark. Everywhere needs cleaning & airing. Rick, the owner, showed us (3 couples) to our respective rooms. They were all dark, dated, dingy, smelly and most unwelcoming. Bathroom fittings were so dated and faded. I would be hard pushed to bath my dogs in the huge old fashioned jacuzzi! We said we could not stay in these horrible spaces and he said he had other houses in Newport and proceeded to drive us to view other options. I can honestly say that we felt sick at what he was offering. It is plain price gouging. How can you, Rick, ask honest decent tourists to fork out €1,105.13 for a 2 night stay in these kips??? Cop on and start acting like a decent human being! You are giving a very bad impression of this great country USA to your foreign tourists. This is also the only place we have ever stayed in where the beds were not dressed or the bathroom towels not replaced for our second night despite the website clearly stating ‘daily housekeeping’. ||The television was in a prominent place in an antique dresser … however we could not get it to work! ||It is cold comfort to read other reviews here and note that we are certainly not alone in our assessment of this absolute exceedingly overpriced dive.

We ended up booking a room at this inn at the last minute, and we are so glad that it worked out! Rick was incredibly helpful - he regularly called to see if we needed anything and was very hospitable. The historic inn was lovely, our room was clean, the mini fridge was stocked with drinks, and the bed was so comfortable!! And the location can't be beat.

Absolutely terrible all around! This was our second time at this location. We checked in at 6:30, and they offered us an upgrade to a larger bedroom, which we took. When we arrived and went in the room, the bed was unmade, pillows on the floor, a man's shirt hanging in the closet. We called and asked if the room could be turned over, and they said they had no available cleaning staff on that night, so they gave us our original room we reserved. Because this is a separate location, we had to drive back to the main office to get our new keys. We got in the Rosecliff, saw the bed was made, set our things down, and went out to eat dinner. When we got home and started getting ready for bed, we noticed that our room was definitely not clean. None of the trash cans had been emptied, the bathroom was completely dirty with leftover towels, soaps, cups, etc. Dirt on the floor near the toilet. We were so tired we slept in the bed anyway since we knew they didn't have the staff that night to clean it. We called in the morning and I spoke to the owner, who was very rude, kept talking over me, and saying that he would have someone clean it but would not give us a discount or even comp breakfast for our inconvenience. He then started talking about how he would have to fire whoever was responsible, which I feel is not professional to speak to the customer about. He made it seem like no big deal that we were given TWO dirty rooms, and kept saying that one was only dirty because they were being nice by upgrading us. This is on top of the fact that this house is old, outdated, musty, loud since it's right off the main street with no noise cancellation, etc. Do not go here, you will regret it!

We had the pleasure of staying at the Admiral Farragut. The room/bed was very comfortable and the whirlpool bath was a nice extra feature. The area was quiet and relaxing while only being 2 blocks from the main strip in Newport. The staff was extremely friendly and breakfast was simply amazing. We will definitely return :)

To begin, I really can’t understand any of the positive reviews of the Wynstone Inn. Just AVOID… ||From the moment you step in the door a stale odour of popcorn and stank air hits you. ||The rooms were dressed with crisp white linens and fluffy towels but the luxury ends very dramatically there: ||I could get a smell of smelly pillows in every room I viewed. I did protest to Ricky the owner and he showed us several other rooms. One worse than the other. ||||The bathroom while clean risked a bad infection of legionnaires the fixtures looked so old and underused. ||||The windows had blinds that were badly broken. No noise insulation and it felt we were sleeping in the middle of the busy road outside. No sleep for two nights. ||||Breakfast was good but the dining room was dank dark and in need of not only a good coat of paint (which is not very expensive or difficult to apply) but very untidy and also used as a storage area for slabs of cola etc. come on this is an Inn for guests! ||||We paid almost $550 for this horrendous experience. For the same price in shoulder season in Manhattan you would get a suits a fabulous property at the likes of the Westhouse Hotel. I think if I was faced with a stay at ‘chez Rick’ I would sleep in my car. ||||Please don’t stay here. I feel completely and utterly ripped off and cheated and it absolutely ruined my stay in Newport. Gosh what a horrible image for such a nice town.

My fiance and I stayed here from 12/31-1/2 and had an awesome experience. The rooms are located in a large old home. This is not a hotel but more like a bed and breakfast - And breakfast comes with the room so... The room was a little smaller than I had hoped for but the 2 person jacuzzi tub more than made up for it. ||||We planned this trip very last minute. I made reservations on 12/30 and still got what I wanted. Rich was awesome at making sure we had a great time. He suggested how we go about getting reservations for the 31st, 1st and 2nd at several really nice restaurants. Every time we spoke he wanted to make sure we were happy. We were arriving a bit late in the evening and he left the keys for us hidden outside (like we were family) and called while we were driving to make sure we were having a pleasant drive. He even left his personal cell # on the key envelope and spoke to me about several options to consider for dinner that night as we got settled. He genuinely cared about us having a great time in Newport.||||The few issues I had with the wynstone are that 1) the room was a little smaller than I had hoped for, 2) it is an older home and you can see it needs a small renovation (mismatched floor board colors, Dressers are dated with older shelving, etc...) and 3) while there is plenty of parking, it is not clearly marked where to park.||||As far as location goes, You literally can't get a better location in Newport. Walk to the docks and all the great restaurants in the wharf or on Thames st.. Short drive to the mansions or cliff walk and to Ocean Ave and the beaches.... Location is 5/5!||||Overall I give the Wynstone a 4.75 out of 5... ||||We will be back!

Awful! The worst, most expensive dump I have ever been too. Smells of mildew everywhere. Ants crawling all over the coffee area. I paid $800 to be in an outdated, moldy room on a main road. I either heard traffic outside on the street or people walking in the room above me and outside my room. Window AC unit. Outdated. Old. Jacuzzi tub old and filthy. Highway robbery! Avoid avoid avoid!