Rangeley Town & Lake

The rooms are clean, comfortable, and well-decorated with a Maine theme. They offer well-equipped amenities, friendly staff, and a great location with easy parking and beautiful views. Close to downtown and the lake.

Friendly owner of an ideally located lake front motel in Rangeley, Maine. Our updated and well stocked room was perfect for our Memorial weekend vacation. Sliders lead to the back deck where you can enjoy the lake. We will return! Thank you!

No Internet... I was told by the motel manager that nearby lake conditions sometimes interfered with their Motel Internet.  Furthermore, he was no "IT expert" and there was nothing to be done about the No Internet situation. Apparently, the digital TV suffered from the same problerm as the screen would lock up every 30-45 seconds. Digital Dish?  Regardless, less than an hour after paying the motel's overnight fee of $196.00, which advertised Free WIFI, was not to be. I had been able to download one email at molasses speed before Town & Lake Motel’s WIFI signal gave up altogether. Also to make matters worse there was no desk nor desk chair (or easy chair for that matter) in the room. One would think that's why there's no need for a laptop.  But, there was a plastic half-split plastic table which, after a difficult assembly, I was eventually able to make use of.  It folded out to the full width of 4' feet and required adjusting the legs to rest their laptop on. The chair provided was a metal folding chair. Please see the accompanying PHOTOS as I know this doesn't make much sense. The room was rather tight once the table and chair were put up.   Otherwise, the motel room had a nice ambiance what with the lake there, and it had a nice woodsy Maine theme decoratively. The beds were “plush” as in one would sink into them, which was fine with me. The mattresses on our two beds certainly aren’t what one would call hard or firm.  This Town & Lake Motel seemed fine if one is satisfied lounging on the beds only. The awkward self-assembly table and folding chair, plus the lack of adequate space combined with No Internet for the evening, and morning, meant future hotels-motel bookings, would wait until the next hotel  24 hours later. The digital issues with the TV were certainly annoying.  Yet as New England October leaf hunters (visiting from Minnesota) we are a taken-advantage group that is easy pickings during leaf season. A motel room typically at $129.00 instead is seasonally jacked up to over $190.00. And we leaf hunters have few options. Internet is very much needed for your future stays, meaning finding locations at a price under $300.00. Smartphones are tough with researching hotels on Trip Advisor and finding the best future stay, booking over it, etc. Without that access to promised (paid for) Internet, such as at Rangeley's Town and Lake Motel, is pure bait and switch.