We just came back from an excellent mini vacation at Kingsmill. We have previously been going to Wolf Lodge, but we were so tired of the place, we decided to come back to Kingsmill.

The room was beautiful and so well decorated and comfortable. It had a wonderful comfort bed and was so peaceful and quiet. the suite had lots of windows looking out onto the beautiful property.

There is so much to do here, the propery has a great sports center, a par 3 beautiful golf course on the river that is perect for family rounds. There are also 3 other courses on the property.

There is a full spa that I found to be wonderful in everyway.

There are many dining options on the property and the 2 we ate at were excellent. They also offer free shuttle transportation to Colonial williamsburg, busch Gardens, and water country.

We loved it here and refuse to stay anywhere else in Williamsburg again. This place is perfect for the picky who do not deal well with bad service. They go out of your way to make sure you are happy.

We made a last minute trip during Spring Break to Williamsburg (mostly to visit Busch Gardens) and booked here without knowing anything about it except its proximity to the theme park. What a wonderful surprise! This is a luxurious, sprawling golf and tennis resort sitting on the rolling banks of the James River - with a top notch spa, tennis and golf clubs, marina, fine dining, camp for kids and beautiful accomodations. From the moment you walk into the resort's main lodge, you are given white glove treatment. We had the smallest accomodation - a standard room. Standard rooms are the smallish rooms located on the sides of the large clusters of 2 or 3 bedroom condos. They overlook a wooded stream and feature spacious, newly done bathrooms. Loved Kingsmill and can't wait to return!

My boyfriend and I visited the Kingsmill Resort and Spa over President's Weekend (a belated Valentine's getaway) and overall had a wonderful time. We stayed in one of the standard king rooms with a view of the river. The view was BEAUTIFUL and there was also a small balcony with sitting area to further enjoy it. The room was great, the bed very comfortable and everything was spotlessly clean.

Upon our arrival on Friday we had no problems checking in and the front desk staff was very friendly and helpful. After reading reviews on this website we decided to try dinner at the Whaling Company (which is located right outside of the resort). It was fantastic! If you have a chance I would certainly try it out! Friday evening we visited Moody's Tavern for a few drinks and just a chance to relax -- this is on the property. Very cute little place with a sportsbar feel to it -- lots of seating and very friendly staff.

We did the typical tourist stuff on Saturday and had a great time -- went to Market Square and walked around a bit. We actually did go back to the room for a bit and ended up ordering room service -- not really impressed at all, the service was excellent and the food arrived quickly but the quality was very poor and overpriced not only for what we got but for taste alone. I would have preffered eating lunch at McDonalds.

Saturday evening we had planned on going to a restaurant in Colonial Williamsburg (the name escapes me) and when we called the front desk to ask for assistance with directions we did not recieve a very friendly response. We got the feeling we were bothering them and to top it all off they gave us incorrect directions! Long story short we ended up missing our reservation due to the poor directions and came back to Kinsmill planning on having dinner at Eagle's -- I would have preffered going back to the Whaling Company. Again from the prices I would have expected the food to be very good. It was only ok and the service was not so great. We waited about 20 minutes for someone to take our drink order and then when the food arrived we were dissapointed. When the dessert menu was dropped off we were asked "would we care to order anything 'to go'" ... to go? apparently our server wanted to close his section and we were preventing him from doing so -- either way did not think that was necessary. After dinner we went back to our room and settled in with a movie and a bottle of wine from room service -- a good end to the evening.

Sunday we were checking out and we headed to Eagle's again, this time for Breakfast -- much better! The service was great and the food was very good also -- we had a table looking out over the golf course -- great view and we even had a couple of snow flakes. I sent an email to kingsmill upon our return about the poor customer service we got on Saturday night and the wrong directions we receieved an almost immediate response and apology which was nice. We enjoyed it overall and would go back but would only have breakfast at the resort -- there are many other dining options in the area that are better (and more affordable).

Oh one other thing, the parking is a bit annoying ... the resort was fairly empty when we went and still parking was a bit of an issue saturday evening when we returned.

We chose to stay at the williamsburg inn for a 6 nights and try the Kingsmill Inn for 4 nights. The Wiliamsburg Inn will always be our favorite but the Kingsmill Inn was a nice change of pace to the vacation, especially since we were finished visiting the historic district. The Kingsmill is a true self contained resort which can keep you busy all day.

We found the 2 bedroom suite very comfortable for our family (my husband and I, my mother, boys 7 and 6 and baby 4 months.) The beds were very comfortable and having a kitchen with little kids is a great bonus. Go to the farmers market in Wiliamsburg and pick up some of the great ready made food to stock in your fridge -- I beleive it is held two days a week in Market Square. We bought some really terrific soups and vegtables that was a great change of pace.

When reading about the resort on the internet I was very worried that I would pick the right location. After going there I realize that there is no bad location so if money matters to you, don't worry about where you stay (they have 3 price categories) they are all great locations and very close to everything.

We really liked the club house facilities with the basketball, squash, indoor and outdoor pools and really terrific showers. The shuttle to the parks was also really great, and each night we would take the shuttle to the water park and get there when the crowds were leaving. It was a lot of fun.

On the negative side, the reason we chose the resort was we signed our sons up for a tennis tournament at their facility and thought we would stay at the resort during the tournament and try it out. They have 10+ courts which are really nice. The tournament was cancelled b/c they did not list it right with USTA so they did not get many kids to sign up. I tried to sign them up for lessons and a variety of other things but the person who answered the phones at the tennis center kept giving me conflicting information. For example, they did not know when their tennis clinics were, so we missed out on them too. I had a problem with another employee and asked them if they sold swim diapers and she sent me down the hill to the store near the river and they did not sell them either. I think she should have at least called and found out for me, before sending me around the resort. The resort is really nice, but the feel with the staff is that a lot are college students and temporary workers. A much different feel than the staff at the Williamsburg Inn.