The Oge House

Stayed 2/16-19/24. Number of things were just odd. From the decor to how it was renovated. 1. Did not like the location of the CHINOISERIE room: Front left, where everyone enters the inn and walks right past your room. The room is right off the front porch and the outside seating area so you can clearly hear people talking outside, 2-3 feet from your bed, through single pane windows. Additionally, the room windows have shear see-through curtains (under drapes) that must be closed if you want privacy or you can see in the room, especially at night!!! Second issue is the drapes naturally have gapes so we had to move chairs and use pillows to keep the curtain gapes closed. 2. This was super odd: our breakfast was brought to us the PRIOR afternoon for the next morning. DONT waste your $9/pp/day for breakfast: store bought or box made(?) muffin, Yoplait yogurt, juice and sorry looking fruit. You get your own Keurig coffee yourself in the main area. Super underwhelming! 3. The electric fire place advertised was (no kidding) a light bulb behind a plastic cutout colored flame template. VERY misleading on their part. 4. Safety issue: the wood bedroom floor is TWO INCHES lower than the tile floor in the bathroom. THIS IS A TOE BREAKER or fall if you miss it. We ended up rolling up a towel and putting it on the floor to cover the threshold. This is a safety issue (from other reviews) that they are already aware of. Hot water is scalding hot, less than a 1 second burn time that made me yell out in the shower. We were irked that they charged for parking in an ample lot they own; just another way to gig you. Over all it was generally clean. The decor is older and mismatched, neither really antique or period pieces. Kinda like your great grams house back in the day. Other than at our arrival and the afternoon breakfast delivery. We saw no staff ever during our three days there and we were in and out during the day. We did like the close proximity to the river walk. PLEASE NOTE: the first 10 mins of this walk does not have businesses so its kinda eerie coming back at night with no one else around. We thought the bed was comfortable. Would we return or recommend it? NO. Even with the above mentioned, we enjoyed our time in SA very much.
Feb 24th, 2024

My wife and I have stayed here twice, June 2013 in the Newton Mitchell room and again in June 2014. The sherry wine in the lobby was a nice treat. Loved walking over to The Friendly Spot, good food and drinks. Walking down the riverwalk was hassle free. If you're travelling to SA from Dallas it's nice to take back roads and visit Fredericksburg! Oh if you're looking for a nearby H-E-B don't trust Google Maps - we thought there was one right by the Oge House but it was their corporate office, hah! So why 3 stars.. Before we arrived for the second visit (but after booking) we received a Living Social two night stay deal via email for $249. I emailed the contact address two days before arriving asking if we could switch to the deal but received no reply. Once we arrived I asked the lady at the desk to check if we could use the deal. She called the owners and reported that no, we had to go through with our original $488.02 price. Well that put me off from ever coming here again, what a way to burn a bridge. Would consider staying here again if/when ownership changes. Not management, ownership.
Jun 28th, 2023

Beautiful Well preserved home, Historic land mark Catches your attention walking down the street, and the home looks as old as Texas because it almost is
Jan 14th, 2023

This old home is in a great location and walking distance to many things including the River Walk, and The Tower of the Americas.  Sit on the back porch to watch people walk by on the River Walk.The neighborhood is rich with history and old homes.Much like other reviews, though this house is cool, it could be cleaner. Cob webs, dust, dirt, moldy shower curtain.Great comfortable bed with good sheets and towels. Good water pressure. Love sitting out on the spacious deck.  With attention to detail, and elbow grease to clean, this gem would certainly sparkle more.
Dec 29th, 2022

It's been months and I still think about the rude/odd owner. Pulling my review from "Noble Inns" Google search to "The Oge House" to inform more people. It was beautiful. You may be wonderimg why so many 1 & 5 star reviews? I think that it would be a great stay without any interaction with the owner. If there is interaction you will hate it because he doesn't know how to talk to people. My brother and I went on vacation because he just graduated. I booked a couple of nights at the carriage house so that we could have our own space. When the time came to make up the pullout couch we noticed there wasn't any sheets or a blanket for him. No biggie I texted the owner (even though it says emergency only texts after 9). He didn't text back so I took the bed cover off of my bed and put it on the couch. He finally texted back (1h 45m later) that he wouls bring some over. Cool. I opened the door and seen him coming so I just left it open. He brought the blankets and "scolded" us for using the bedding from the bed. He said it wasnt meant to be slept on top of and to put it back in the bedroom. Like what else were we supposed to do? It's not our fault they didn't do their job. He also said something because I had the door open when he came up. He said to keep it closed at all times because of bugs (even though I found 2 cochroaches during my stay).
Nov 10th, 2022