Sunriver Resort

We loved our stay at Sunriver Resort. Everyone was very friendly. We loved the free shuttle service to get to the village and around town. We told our driver and the front desk person that we were there for my birthday and to go snowmobiling. When we got back to our room later that night the staff had wrote a card telling me they hope I have fun snowmobiling and left a bag of delicious toffee chocolates for me. Everyone at the restaurants were very nice as well. They had free ice skating and Starbucks that you could charge back to your room. We also enjoyed hot tubbing in the snow.
We want to stay there again when my dad comes to visit oregon! Great place! Lots of thanks to the friendly staff.

A serendipitous find! My aunt recommended a visit to Sunriver as a great family vacation destination. She was so right. And she even came up from Eugene area with her hubby and grandson to meet up with our family group.
We were able to each rent right-​sized condos within two minutes walking distance of each other. That enabled sharing of dishes to concoct a family reunion pot luck dinner the last night of our stay.
Our place came with bikes in the garage — a score for the kids! They spent most of the time off on the multitude of bike paths throughout the resort. Most are shielded from car /​truck traffic, so it was a safe and fun option for the boys.
We had three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a full kitchen, and a hot tub on the deck to enjoy. Also featured a laundry closet, which we put to good use! Cabin chic décor was in keeping with the pines and woodsy area. The owners have it stocked with books and games. Thought there was a TV, it was better to relax as unplugged as possible.
The SHARC water park was a big hit. On our arrival night, they had a free concert in the park adjacent to the water rides and pools.
Dear Hubby even wants to look into buying a place there. That’s saying something. Not sure I could handle the cold winters, but it was great in the summer time!
Some of the restaurants weren’t «all that», but we didn’t take time to Unilocal ahead of our drop ins — shame on us.
As a Southern Californian, it’s a long way to get to Sunriver, but it was worth the journey for the pleasure of being there. Next time we’d want to stay longer.

2-​Star reviews are described by Unilocal as «Meh. I’ve experienced better.» Want to know what that «better» is? It was the former Sunriver that is, apparently, dying off a little each year.
The Owl’s Nest is now Twisted Tavern and significantly more expensive for food.
The Trout House is gone.
The center of the village no longer permits a sledding hill setup.
All hills except for the designated tubing area are roped-​off to prevent fun.
The New Years 2016 Party held in the Main Lodge was mediocre at best this year, especially compared to NYE 2015. What happened to the servers walking around with hours d’oeuvres and champagne? The second stage in the main lobby? The third bar in the front? The small size of the dance floor makes celebrating pretty rough. Fantastic live band though!
So help me, if the Thanksgiving Great Hall buffet is altered or eliminated, or if Goody’s is replaced, that will be the end of the true Sunriver.
Sunriver is an Oregon establishment filled with tradition and memories, please don’t keep putting them on the chopping block.

We made a huge mistake by staying at the Resort Lodge rooms. (We usually rent a house) We brought our dog with us, so we needed a «pet friendly» room. BIG MISTAKE! We were placed next to a room with an irresponsible pet owner. They left their dog in their room next to us for 12 hours a day, unattended. The dog (s) barked ALL day and late into the evening until about 10:30pm when the owners came home. I called the desk at three different times to ask them to please talk to the dog owners. The desk personnel told me that a manager was involved and that they had left 3 messages with the dog owner that has not been returned. That was it! The dog owners continued to leave their barking dogs for us to listen to for three days straight. The desk continued to tell us that because they didn’t answer their phone, there was nothing they could do. We were offered a new room, but the day after Christmas to pack up all of our unwrapped gifts and two children in 4 degree weather seemed very unreasonable! The barking dogs should be expected to move! Paid $ 875 for 3 nights of listening to dogs bark. So annoying! Never again! House rental is the only way to go! Very disappointed in the Lodge manager!

what a WONDERFUL expierence… wasnt even planning on «being» there but ended up being caught in a snow storm. They were SO helpful as well as being concerned about my predicament, in particular a young woman named Liz. She provided me with information about assistance i found usefull as well as a hot cup of cocoa while i tried to pull myself together. They saved my DAY! Their compassion, professionalism, and HOSPITALITY puts them in my top «must spend time» destination

Wonderful place to vacation and relax! My family has come here for years and ended up buying a condo in sunriver so we can enjoy it every year. Highly recommend a vacation here. Amazing staff and activities.

This is a great place for families with kids. The pool is awesome and a destination in itself. It is so popular that they could use extra servers, but they did get to us. The food was delicious and large servings.
Our room was small but it had a lovely rock fireplace with an accent light. The bathroom was a bit dated, but no big deal.
Lots of parking, and for me pulling a 14′ trailer, that matters.
All around a great stay for a fair price.

I just returned home from a three night stay at the resort and am very happy to be home!
First I’ll be honest and say that the area and grounds were beautiful. The décor, landscaping, trails, and layout were excellent. The food was fairly good, not as good as they’d like you to believe, but interesting enough and well priced for what it was.
My issue was with the service. My bedding had some very dubious spots, on the top of the duvet, which looked like semen. There were also spots on the side of the bed to match. I did not make big enough of a deal about this evidentially because telling the front desk and asking for new bedding did not inspire them to send housekeeping.
I’m sorry, but I don’t want some strangers ejaculate on my bedding. I don’t know how they could misinterpret my request. But they did. Or they didn’t care enough to humor me.
I had asked for new bedding and gone to Bend. After returning five hours later the room was untouched. I called the front desk and the person assured me they would send someone. I asked when I could expect them, and she said she was unsure. This is when I explained that I was planning on heading to the spa for a couple of hours and expected there to be new bedding when I returned. She sounded extremely put out by my demand.
I’m not sorry. I shouldn’t have even had to ask in the first place.
Not once in this process did they ever offer any sort of apology or compensation. In the end they charged me every penny for a stay in a filthy room, and actually almost overcharged me at checkout– but at least that mess was caught and cleaned up before I was the wiser.

Ate at the Merchant Trader Café had a burger and chicken wrap that had been grilled on the griddle. which tasted like old grease on the griddle., the burger was just a burger. for $ 30 i wasn’t impressed. that was with no drinks just the sandwiches

Great place. Fun vacation! Lots to do here and a great setup. We’ve really enjoyed the room and the amenities. No matter the weather, you will never be bored on vacation here!

Sunriver used to be such an awesome place to bring my family. Sadly it has lost its fun, spontaneous feel and appears to be catering to a more formal, buttoned-​down clientele. Swimming options have been reduced to exactly one. Want to go for a quick dip? That’ll cost you $ 25. Care to bat the tennis ball around for a few minutes? That now requires making a time specific reservation, a trip to the tennis shop to pick up a swipe card for the gate, and (almost forgot) it now costs $ 15. Jeez guys, I’m on vacation here, I’d like to be spontaneous. If I wanted to be micro-​managed I could have stayed at work! What’s next? A day use fee and reservation sheet at Fort Rock Park? Licensing exam to ride on the bike paths? Long story short: The fun is being sucked out of Sunriver, presumably to make room for an older, stuffier crowd who prefer their daily activities on an itinerary. At least I have the memories of many family vacations here when a quick swim didn’t cost more than dinner and we could play a casual game of tennis without signing a contract.

We recently stayed at this resort for just under a week. This was the location of a family member’s wedding, which is how it was chosen. While staying here, you can stay at the lodge or rent a condo or house. We chose to rent a house since we had a large group (15+). It was wonderful! The house was clean and well stocked. It had all the amenities we needed. One amazing thing about renting from here was that we split the costs between several families and were able to make separate payments towards the price directly to the resort. We didn’t have to write checks to each other to balance it out. Several family members also rented houses and had the same experience. Some of our family members stayed at the lodge. All had great experiences. It’s cheaper overall for a group to stay in a house. The lodge was super expensive!
This resort is basically a town. Within the resort there are multiple pools, shops, restaurants, a grocery, coffee shops, two golf courses and more. We visited «The Cove,» which is their new zero-​entry pool area. There is a huge hot tub there as well as a pond and a Mount Bachelor outlook. The pool was nice and a good temperature. The hot tub was nice but a lot of kids decided to use it as a pool and so it wasn’t relaxing at all. Did I mention that it also has a water slide? I forgot since it was closed the entire time we were there :\ They have servers who will bring you food and drink galore while you lounge. It was great! The food was meh but what can you expect.
The wedding experience was great. It was out on the lawn overlooking the mountains. The reception hall was beautiful — very rustic. The food was good except the salad dressing served with the salad! We all enjoyed it.
I visit this area every few years but this was my first time in Sunriver resort. I will definitely return. Great place!

Well if you have kids this place is heaven. Otherwise I would stay far far away!
The «$ 5 million dollar» upgrade to the grounds & «The Cove» swimming pool is a joke— there’s no way an adult would go anywhere near that pool… it’s just filled with screaming kids & No «adult only» pool available.
& re the accommodations– we stayed in Kitty Hawk villa#1– beautiful view,
Nicely furnished, no wi-​fi, horrible lighting in bedrooms, awful bathroom layout, poor air conditioning in bedroom, no shade on back porch, only kitchen condiments are salt & pepper. I wouldn’t come back.
This place is good for bike riding & it looks like a nice golf course.

The people are great, the location is great, I like the 18 mile trail that I can run. The rooms are great, the balcony overlooking a quiet meadow, the fireplace…
but the walls are paper thin. Every time I stay here I am always annoyed at the couple next door and their need to have a relarionship-​ending talk, or drink too much and complain, or any number of other things.
Other than this, great place. I like the restaurant on the property, the nearby shops and skating rink and brewery, and so on. But drunk, whining neighbors with thin walls dampens my elation.

We stayed here for a 3 day weekend after an event in November 2014. We had a two story king suite that had a huge living room and kitchen as well as the bed up in a loft area. Our suite overlooked the snow covered mountains and fields. The room was absolutely gorgeous and comfortable. We did have 2 problems but they were fixed immediately:
1. The maintenance crew did not turn our water heater on so we had to take a horridly cold shower the first night. We called to have the issue addressed and despite the maintenance mans hesitancy to want to crawl under the deck in the snow to adjust the water heater, he did it. Management then gave us access to the adjoining Queen suite so that we could use the hot water from that room until ours was well heated.
2. The bathroom in our king suite had not been properly cleaned for some time. Specifically, urine splatter had been left on the back of the bathroom door. The stench permeated the wood and was released every time we showered and the room got steamy. It was really gross. Management had an employee come thoroughly clean it all and gave us an expensive lunch to make up for it.
Compared to some issues with other places we have stayed these were quite minor and were handled quickly and with retribution for our troubles. Overall this resort is beautiful, well maintained and relaxing. We will be back!

I will definitely visit again and make it a week long vacation. The rooms were gorgeous and the view was breathtaking. The staff was very friendly and helpful. If you need to get away from the city, this is the place to be.

It was a gorgeous 3 night stay at sunriver, the cabin was beautiful and service was amazing. when I checked in they noticed it was my birthday, and later sent an a delivery to my door with a hand written card and small chocolate package, it was very thoughtful and tasted amazing!
the lodge itself is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. unfortunately the time that we went, the was no snow, all the caves and hikes are down, and you need an all wheel drive vehicle to access most of the adventure, but we improvised and had out own fun
the bike trail was AMAZING as well, best bike trail ever!
Thank You so much, we will definitely be returning in the summer and many more times in the future — Hai P

Just spent a weekend with my family in one of the «Wildflower» units. These are inexpensive at $ 129/​night. But of course throw in the taxes and cleaning it’s more like $ 220/​night for the 2 nights we stayed.
Overall, this is an upscale vacation destination with lots of amenities. For the price-​even the $ 220/​night final price-​what you get at Wildflower is quite nice. Our family of 6 did just fine. They have a shuttle to Mt. Batchelor but it’s NOT free which I was a little disappointed in. But then I suppose that would be a bit much to ask. $ 10/​person round trip is not bad. But as there were three of us who went it was definitely cheaper for my wife to drive us there. It only took about 20 minutes to get to the West Lodge.
The resort layout is nice and organized and its fairly easy to find things. But the overall feel is commercial. If you like a bit more of a out-​in-​nature feel then something like Black Butte Ranch might suit you more.
Now for why I’m giving 3 stars versus 4.
1) We arrived late on Friday. It must have snowed several days before and the snow had partially melted and refrozen. The lighting from where you have to park to where the unit is OK but the narrow side walk was not clear. There was snow and ice all over it. It was actually safer to walk on the grass than try to find/​follow the sidewalk. In an age where people sue for truly stupid things like «too hot» coffee, a resort failing to clear a side walk of snow and ice prior to a occupant’s arrival is a legitimate liability issue. I’m no geriatric but I quite aware how quick a wrist or ankle can be broken.
2) The second issue is just as grievous if not more so. On entering the master bathroom my wife noticed spots. She called me to look at them. She felt they were dried blood. I looked closely and agreed. (I work in the medical field, so I know what blood looks like, fresh or old and dried) That was further confirmed when I cleaned them up with moist TP. This was not just one spot. It was multiple spots in front of the toilet and a small «splatter» on the floor board.
So I called the resort after we left to ask another question about pricing and mentioned the two above issues. I did not ask for a discount and I did not make a big stink. I was not offered anything other than a promise that my feedback would be «passed along». So I decided to «pass along» my own feedback. If this were to happen again, I would ask for a correction to my bill.

We’ve stayed at the Sunriver Resort many times — but after our Labor Day weekend trip, I am finally getting around to writing a review.
Before we took our four year old to the resort, I would have rated our stays (in all sorts of accommodations — from house rentals to the lodge) as a 3.5 star experience. After having spent a weekend with our daughter — I rate the Sunriver Resort a solid 5 stars.
The resort is the PERFECT family vacation and get-​away. It offers everything you need to enjoy recreation, relaxation and just good old-​fashioned family time.
Let me expand —
For recreation: The river is just an awesome experience. Rent a canoe and paddle the 6-​miles down the Deschutes River to the pick-​up location. Take in a pony or horseback ride. Go for a run, bike ride or pleasant walk on the miles-​and-​miles of car-​less trails. Finally, if you are a golfer or a tennis player — there are plenty of options. I am not even mentioning the winter recreational activities that abound.
For relaxation: The pools are the perfect oases. The main pool (under renovation with a plan for completion in May of 2015) offers spectacular views of Mt. Bachelor and the lower volcanic range. The outdoor Owl’s Nest pub is a great place for a summer libation and some bar food. In the winter — there are snow treks, carriage rides, and great access to the mountain.
Finally, for family fun: Nothing beats just hanging out together. The pools are great places to meet other families with small kids. There are a number places to play family games (bocce ball, miniature golf, lawn darts, etc.) and just hang out together. There is a new watermark — SHARC. It is a great, clean place for spending time with 10,000 people in a rather contained location. Although that statement comes across as rather crass — the SHARC watermark is a grey place for a few hours of family fun. Be careful, it can be quite cool in the afternoons of late August — and it can be unpleasant to go between pools. Plan accordingly.
A trip over to the resort is a great way to download and relax. One word of caution — layers. Yes, bring layers. The Central Oregon high desert can be very cool (well, downright cold) at night. Bring clothing you can layer and plan for 35-​degree (F) nights in late August.

Here is a list of things I wrote about on my last two trips to Sunriver and they stand today as my review. The only thing I would add is David at the front desk did a first rate job!
Take advantage of the «Buy a $ 150.00 gift certificate and get a free nights stay» deal!
Check out the fire pit!
Always check ahead about the weather as snow can make a guest appearance prior to Summer.
Check out the golf rates!
Get a room with a view!
Always check for specials and enjoy! And don’t forget the views!
Bring warm clothes as it does get cold here, even in late April.
Any time is a good time here!
Check out the Halibut Fish and Chips!
Ask for specials and get a view room/​suite.
Check for the various specials for different services at the resort. There is usually at least one special going on at Sage Springs Spa so watch or ask.
The Lodge Suites facing Mt Bachelor and the meadow has the best views!
Make reservations at the Crows Nest for quick seating.
Check out the Christmas Light Illumination and fireworks!
The one special that’s great is the one where you buy one $ 150.00 gift certificate you get a free night stay! Bring warm clothes as it can get chilly during fall/​winter.
Love the views and love this place. Watch for specials!
Bicycling out by the airport at Sunriver.
Nice views!
Check out the Maverick and SHARC!
Great staff and accommodation’s!
Five stars from this guy for many reasons! A complimentary room upgrade for three nights and an excellent staff is are just a couple!