The cabin was cute, clean, and had everything we needed. However, in booking this I had set out with one agenda, to find a secluded cabin with a hot tub somewhere within eight hours driving distance of Ohio. I found in my search that there is ambiguity in “secluded”, but given the description and reviews for this one I thought this one actually was. It’s not. It’s literally about six feet away from the road, squeezed between the road and the bottom of a steep ravine. Three sides are treeless, it really had no cabin in the woods or nature like feel at all and the sides are wide open so if you are on the back porch or in the hot tub, you would be visible to cars going by on the road. Granted, there weren’t many. I saw about three cars go by per day, but that’s with being away from the cabin for about eight hours per day. Night one the hot tub was great, day two we didn’t have a chance to use it, and day three we couldn’t wait to get back to the cabin and get in it only to find it was cold when we got there. (I figured there’s a power saving feature or something, which would have been good to know in advance if that’s the case.) we readjusted the temperature and it took about six hours to get back up to a minimum temp that would be comfortable for a hot tub. I don’t really care, but for the price of the place and what you may be looking for when you book it, the hot tub panel is pretty beat up and installed incorrectly. The “jets” and “lights” buttons control the temp, and the temperature buttons control the jets and lights. The button that actually controls the jets is so worn you’d have to push it a bunch of times, hard and in just the right spot, for it to respond.
If you’re going for a romantic getaway, like we were, it’s also a little weird that the sofa has two built in recliners with a huge raised divider/cup holder/storage between the two seats. So you can’t sit right next each other while enjoying the fireplace or anything. So no cuddling for you. (That part felt a little like bringing a girlfriend home to meet the parents in my early 20s and mom making us sleep in separate bedrooms.) “I miss you!” I joked to my partner while we drank tea on the same couch with nearly the foot divider between us. Just something to note. I will say if you are specifically just going to visit the Smokies and looking for a quieter place to stay, this is indeed secluded and quiet compared to the hustle bustle of Gatlinburg and this would be great for that.