The Hotel Laurel at Seneca

Wonderful place to stay while exploring wine trails. You won’t hear the road noise too much. The view from a terrace is awesome. The staff are very friendly and unobtrusive.

This hotel is exactly as described. It is very clean with great views of the lake. Accommodations are simple but more than adequate. It's short distance to town and the wineries making it ideal for a lovely weekend getaway.

Old school hotel / motel goes modern.. Fantastic property - fully renovated rooms that all have lake front views .. well appointed. We booked a two room suite that included a sofa bed - fridge - extra seating and a bar type area.. bathroom was also renovated and quite large. Lake front views are amazing. On site restaurant and bar.. drinks were very affordable.. we had dinner both evenings which was very good. Met the owner Shiv as he came over to make sure our accommodations were good and that we were enjoying our meal. This property is about 1 mile outside of Watkinsglen downtown... highly recommend this property..look no further.

I know this property had recently revamped itself from the old Glen Motor Inn, but I was expecting more renovations than it had. For instance, they really cut corners and used the same old bones and did not update the showers or sinks and used cheap Home Depot brand toilet seats. There is no fan either, which makes the bathroom very wet and slippery after taking a shower. The beds were very soft with flattened out pillows. They never updated the doors and just painted over them so makes them sticky and hard to close. They also don't offer a complementary continental breakfast like other competing hotels in the area do. Overall for what we paid we felt disappointed.

This hotel is nice. It's been recently updated. The rooms are in good shape, ours was very clean. No mould smell or artificial fragrance to cover it up. Beds were comfy. The room is small but with two queen beds taking up a lot of the room, that's not surprising. We have a great little balcony with a lovely view of the lake. We have spent time each day on the balcony admiring the view. We spent our days hiking and visiting wineries. Check out the Wagner winery and the Ginny Lee cafe for excellent food and service and a great view. Watkins Glen park was great but Robert Tremen park near Ithaca was better! Go to both if you can! This hotel is a great place to stay to do all the things in Watkins Glen! All the employees we interacted with were very nice. We ordered drinks and snacks from the restaurant here and everything was great! Highly recommend!

This place has great potential--really good bones, as they say--but it needs some improvement to score top ratings. This was an abandoned motel that an investment firm purchased and renovated. At present, it's one of the more affordable lodgings in the Watkins Glen area. The rooms are a comfortable size, and each is graced with a private balcony overlooking the southwest part of the lake. They designate a parking spot for each room, so loading luggage is made easy. They've done a fine job of hiring staff--every one was quite helpful. State Route 14 carries a lot of truck traffic, and the speed limit decreases just past the hotel, so there's a lot of engine braking. But the rooms are half-way down the hill--accessible down a curing driveway reminiscent of San Francisco's hills--so the truck noise is greatrly reduced. The negatives here have to do with furnishings and finishes in the room. Our bathroom door was a very tight fit and took a good shove in order to close it all the way. Hot water took several minutes to flow from the water heater to the bathroom. It would also be nice to have some shelf space in the bathroom--the edges of the sink didn't quite hold our travel toiletries. The room contains a nice comfy bed, hotel-style dresser, fridge and microwave, and a dining table with one chair and a hard bench seat--more comfortable seating would be great, and a desk or two for us computer nerds would be welcome. The one inexcusable feature for me was the shower. They've decided to enclose it halfway with glass, which seems to be a fad among designers recently. It's just wrong-headed--showers splash, and if you don't have a full enclosure the floor gets wet. I injured my knee once when I slipped and fell due to a wet floor from an enclosure like that. Please install doors! My take-away here is that they've started a good job of renovation and re-establishing this as a fine place to stay in Watkins Glen.