The Thistle Inn

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3.9

Good(59 Reviews)

Hotel in Boothbay Harbor, ME

Reasons to book

Well priced for this locationProperty prices in this area are generally higher

Includes essentialsKitchen or Kitchenette, Air conditioner, Internet / Wifi and more

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About this hotel

Hotel in Boothbay Harbor with a restaurant and a bar
A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and free self parking are available at this smoke-free hotel.
The Thistle Inn offers 6 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Flat-screen televisions come with satellite channels.

Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries. This Boothbay Harbor hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access, with a speed of 100+ Mbps (good for 1–2 people or up to 6 devices).

Amenities

Air conditioner

Kitchen or Kitchenette

Internet / Wifi

Parking

Map of Boothbay Harbor, ME

Nearby attractions

Portland Head Light

53.4 mi

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

3.2 mi

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

51.9 mi

Fort Allen Park

53.6 mi

Available Rooms

American Eagle

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Appledore

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Victory Chimes

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Heritage

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Sherman Zwicker

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

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3.9

Good(59 Reviews)

Hotel in Boothbay Harbor, ME

Reasons to book

Well priced for this locationProperty prices in this area are generally higher

Includes essentialsKitchen or Kitchenette, Air conditioner, Internet / Wifi and more

Book with confidenceWe partner with the top travel sites so you know you're getting a great deal on the perfect rental

About this hotel

Amenities

Air conditioner

Kitchen or Kitchenette

Internet / Wifi

Parking

Map of Boothbay Harbor, ME

Nearby attractions

Portland Head Light

53.4 mi

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

3.2 mi

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

51.9 mi

Fort Allen Park

53.6 mi

Available Rooms

American Eagle

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Appledore

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Victory Chimes

1 King

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Heritage

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Sherman Zwicker

1 Queen

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Expedia.com for availability & pricing

Reviews

3.9

Good(59 Reviews)

2.5

Sep 2024

I would say this property is Unique!!! There is no Front Desk;; check in is a code for the main door and coded key lock box with a key to your room. Checkout is the same. Everything is done via email and phone. What makes this place Great is the Restaurant attached to the Inn. Food is Amazing and the service is Awesome as well!!! The are owned by separate entities. There are only 6 rooms which makes it nice as well and located walking distance to downtown Boothbay Harbor. The only downfall is the narrow stairs going up to the second and third floors, I have bad knees so the stairs were a little rough but still didn't take away from a Great Stay!!! Next time I will try to get the room on the first floor lol. I would definitely stay there again!!

3.0

Sep 2024

Overall, clean. Pictures on Expedia don’t perfectly reflect the property. Cover picture shows a full refrigerator and kitchen with huge counter & barstool chairs. Did not see anything like that. The room (which I thought was a 2nd floor room because of the ceiling shape in pics) was actually a 3rd floor (which was not very easy for us older folk to climb) & stairs were very narrow. No elevator. No breakfast, lunch amenities. Keurig in room was great (if you’re a fan of Keurig) I guess this was an average like a AirB&B type situation. If you’re looking for that, it is fine. Anything more is not there. Although it looks like they’re trying to update each room individually. Ours was newly painted & clean. Small refrigerator, no freezer. It’s out of the busy/touristy sections & outstanding restaurant below the rooms (not associated with the rentals.) Open 4pm-9pm. The food, staff, ambiance was phenomenal. All n all, the experience was ok, just lacking any personal touch/service.moo

5.0

Sep 2024

This place was amazing! Great location. I definitely recommend.

1.5

Sep 2024

Check in instructions supposed to come 72 hours. Got day of after calling. Bed WAY TOO FIRM! Shower curtain pink and black with mold and mildew-smelled to high heaven when wet. The restaurant is too loud. Heard people singing Happy Birthday and dishes clanging in our room. Thankfully done around 10. Can also smell cooked food in the room. Odd setup.

2.0

Aug 2024

The room was nice but you have to carry everything up a flight of steep stairs to reach the room. Shower is very small.

2.0

Aug 2024

Love Boothbay Harbor and all it has to offer. Great location and unique place. The bed was TERRIBLE! I don't expect to get the mattress I have at home but this one was like sleeping on a piece of plywood. For what it is all you need is a good mattress!

5.0

Aug 2024

This place is unique in that u do not have a front desk to check in. The key is in a lock box and then u r kinda on ur own. The room was great! Large, clean, comfortable bed. Small fridge, Keriig coffeemaker, microwave The only complaint I would have is that there are very few electrical outlets. It’s a historical building so that’s kinda expected. We had to be creative to plug in the CPap machine and charge our electronics. No big deal though.

4.0

Aug 2024

The room needed a chair and a small table to eat at and watch TV. I also thought the A/C was very loud and leaked all night. I was also surprised there was no incentive to eat at the Inn downstairs-discount or coupon.

5.0

Aug 2024

Great little area, felt safe and relaxed in the property.

2.0

Jul 2024

Great place to stay 8m walk from everything. Do not use pay later option because they bill you min you hit accept. The window ac was running full tilt to keep the place cool. Upgrade to a mini split or heat pump more cost efficient. Over all wife and i loved it. Would not recommend if you cant climb stairs.

5.0

Jul 2024

Even though there is no person to check you in any questions you can easily call host.

5.0

Jul 2024

Thistle Inn was absolutely beautiful very clean spacious. The owner worked with me and gave me a bigger room and I screwed up and thought I had a king size bed which I thought I read on Expedia unbelievable gorgeous will be back for sure. Definitely won’t disappoint. Thank you again for a wonderful stay. The restaurant downstairs was delish.

1.0

Jul 2024

We are a family with young kids who lost power for several days. We went to the library so we could find a room available for the night using Expedia, and it said that The Thistle Inn had vacancy. We booked it around 3 PM and headed to the Inn at around 6. The building is unattended, with just a note saying to check your email for a code to get in the room, and a phone number if you have issues. Expedia nor the Inn ever sent a code. We called the number that was taped to the door and it was disconnected. I sent an email, and tried to reach the Inn through the Expedia site. At that point we were stranded with a 5yo and a newborn. We were able to find a place with power and gave up on the room. A couple hours later, I heard back from someone from Thistle Inn who explained the issue, that he never got the information from Expedia, and that we should ask for a refund. The next call was to customer service who said they would issue the refund after confirming with The Thistle Inn. Our refund request was denied by Expedia because the owner didn't respond. Never will use Expedia again.

4.0

May 2024

First time staying at the Thistle Inn. Nice place!!

2.5

Dec 2023

Max from Thistle Inn was especially helpful in quelling my nervousness around getting in to the room, super easy in the end. Just know that he sends the email morning of with info, not 72 hours prior like it says on the hotels.com info page. Had a great stay after a gardens aglow excursion!

1.5

Dec 2023

The room was freezing and to very long time to warm up. Sheets clean stiff and uncomfortable. The door to the bathroom the trim on the floors nails sticking up and could rip a bare foot. Over priced for this time of year and could use some sprucing up.

5.0

Dec 2023

Great place to stay with easy check-in and out process

4.0

Dec 2023

Room was ice cold upon arrival, door lock very sticky

2.5

Oct 2023

The room was relatively clean, but the wood floor was a bit grimy.

5.0

Oct 2023

Comfy bed, took me a while to figure out Keurig, heater noisy, overall Comfy bed overrides noisy heater

5.0

Oct 2023

The property was excellent and the restaurant at the property was the best in the area.

4.0

Sep 2023

Love that it is close to downtown area. Attached restaurant is very good. It is directly on the main street into town, but not too loud.

1.0

Sep 2023

Probably the dirtiest hotel room in which I've stayed. Immediately upon entrance I started taking photos of how disheveled unclean and unacceptable I found the room.. fingerprints all over the surfaces at least a year's worth of dust on the air conditioner vents. Spiders in the corners. No deadbolt no chain a poor quality door knob and lock who knows how many people have that key? Didn't even have a toilet paper holder. 100% not ADA compliant or accessible by a wheelchair with extremely steep steps. No way for an elderly person to get their luggage upstairs and no one there to help you.

2.0

Sep 2023

room is located in an old home attached to a restaurant. Lucky for us the restaurant is closed today otherwise there would have been people coming & going outside our room. Also appears the restaurant has patio seating right outside our room. Parking would have been located across the street if restaurant was open.

2.0

Sep 2023

It was very noisy when the restaurant was open. There was no staff or security present. We were the only ones in the entire complex which was disconcerting . The bathroom was tiny with a tiny shower. The bed was fine and the floors were clean. Some of the outside siding was rotted. We would not recommend this establishment to anyone. Sorry

3.0

Aug 2023

This is not an Inn. You are renting a room above a restaurant. There is no staff or housekeeping on site. We stayed for 3 nights and the room was never cleaned. There are very steep steps to the 3rd floor where our room was. We never got an email with instructions for check in and had to call. This was more like an airbnb experience definitely NOT an inn.

2.5

Aug 2023

Walkable, great location. Easy self-check in and and very clean, comfortable stay. The room was spacious for my teen sons and myself to relax. Guests should know that there are potentially two flights of stairs to climb to the room that are steeper and shorter than some may be used to. Hold the railings when traversing. Pretty restaurant on the patio - but not affiliated with the Inn

4.0

Aug 2023

The Inn was beautiful but no staff on site. No one checked on us even came to jump the garbage.

4.0

Aug 2023

Super easy check in with lock codes No staff on premise Be aware of high floor rooms super steep stairs

3.0

Aug 2023

This is not an Inn. There is noone to greet you and check you in. There was no communication in advance to inform you that there was noone to greet you and to look for a same-day e-mail communication about an entry code to get to the room. It is an old building (once a working inn)...so the steps to get to the rooms are narrow and have a small width. We had a 3 floor walk-up with luggage. No assistance (no elevator). Absolutely anyone with a walking disability or a breathing and/or heart condition should not elect to stay here. There is a restaurant, but it has nothing to do with the stay and the staff there cannot help you with any questions. The room was clean, air was fine, bed was fine. There's a refrigerator. The futon couch was cheap and uncomfortable.

4.0

Aug 2023

Nice stay

2.0

Jul 2023

The room was clean and decent. Plenty of space. Good coffee selection for the Nespresso machine. That’s where the good review ends. Extremely disappointing. Refrigerator did not get cold at all. No response to emails, no answer on the phone. The restaurant staff kept giving us dirty looks as we enjoyed the outdoor sitting area, apparently they didn’t want us there (directly outside of our room) unless we were dining at the restaurant. Every single employee interaction was rude and unwelcoming. Restaurant and Inn are separate businesses, according to a sign in our room. That doesn’t excuse the rudeness. Broken curtain rods, the iron was oddly unusable with a zip tie around the plug. Our first floor room was next to the restaurant entrance, so people passed directly in front of our two windows all evening within a foot of the glass. In fact, the restaurant bathroom was in the hall right next to our door. Lots of foot traffic. The only way to close the view from outside on the first floor, where people walked directly past, was to shut the curtains, which covered up the air conditioner entirely. There are no shades on the windows, only curtains. Two days after checking in we still had no responses to our emails or calls. The restaurant was closed the Wednesday we were there. All outdoor lighting in seating areas were completely turned off in the evening outside the entrance to the Inn. Dark and dreary.

3.0

Jul 2023

The location and parking was nice. Communication could have been better. We did not know what the “main door” was and had to ask wait staff. The floor in our room felt like it had not been vacuumed and the mattress not the best. We were in the Appleton room and there were no instructions for emergency evacuation. Seemed a bit unsafe. We were thankful for the window unit and the keurig. The restaurant was so good and convenient. Thank you.

4.0

Jul 2023

From the outside the property could be better maintained. The room itself and the adjoining bathroom were spotless and pretty much as one sees in the photographs on-line. The built-in air conditioner is massive and, in our view, was loud. The room is directly over the restaurant, and one should expect noise until the restaurant closes, staff clean-up and again at 4 AM when there were noisy deliveries outside. We are not used to urban living, so it was a sleepless night for us. The property is certainly convenient to all that Boothbay has to offer. Food was average at the restaurant and, in our view, too pricy for what we had to eat. Service was good.

5.0

Jul 2023

Large rooms in charming colonial building. Non-affiliated restaurant on site, excellent food. Walk to harbor. Just to be aware, stairs to 2nd floor suites very are extremely steep, no inn staff on site.

FAQs

How much does this hotel cost compared to others in Boothbay Harbor?

The average price for a rental in Boothbay Harbor is R 5,272 per night. This rental is R 1,272 less expensive than the average.

Is parking included with this hotel?

Yes, parking is listed as an amenity at The Thistle Inn. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this hotel?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this hotel. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is The Thistle Inn pet friendly?

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What amenities are available at The Thistle Inn?

We found 5 amenities for this rental. This includes air conditioner, kitchen or kitchenette, internet / wifi, parking, and tv.

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Amenities

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Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

American Eagle

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The Thistle Inn

Hotel in Boothbay Harbor, ME

Reasons to book

About this hotel

Amenities

Map of Boothbay Harbor, ME

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

American Eagle

Appledore

Victory Chimes

Heritage

Sherman Zwicker

Reviews

FAQs

How much does this hotel cost compared to others in Boothbay Harbor?

Is parking included with this hotel?

Is there a pool at this hotel?

Is The Thistle Inn pet friendly?

What amenities are available at The Thistle Inn?

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