I recently hosted a baby shower here in the Garden Pavilion and faced one too many challenges with communication and accommodation to give this more stars. It seemed like they were making up policies on the spot and finding ways to charge more money. One example was the contract stating we could approve a layout, but the Event Sales Manager not letting us move tables around or have the bar outside at the actual physical bar space (which did not have food on it during the event as she said it would). None of this was mentioned upfront and the tour was pretty misleading -- there was a whole third of the space not mentioned that was available to us. I went back to watch my video to be sure. I had a coordinator step in last minute to help because it was really frustrating and she said I was being taken advantage of; that it seemed like they were new at this. :-/ We ended up having to bring in our own tables and chairs. Really disappointed. Gave it two stars because the property itself is gorgeous and St. Albans is an adorable community.

I will only speak to the food, and Chef Ted is truly deserving to be executive chef. We had a 5 course dinner at the Old Barn Inn with wine pairing, and the food and drinks were wonderful. I'd never had escargots served in-shell! The French onion soup was one of the best I've ever had, and the fish with lentils was so refreshing. The fish and beef Wellington dishes were both so good--every part of them. And to finish it all off, the chocolate tart was rich, decadent, SO chocolatey (in the best way), and paired with creme brulee and sparkling rose. This was a fantastic meal.

We've photographed wedding for over 14 years and LOVE working at the Inns at St Albans. Not only is it a gorgeous backdrop for a wedding but the staff do such an amazing job of taking care of our couples!

Last year we got married at the Old Barn Inn at the Inns at St. Albans. Overall the day went along very well, but there were specific items that we paid for that they didn’t do which frustrated me greatly. We opted for a wine pour at the beginning of dinner and they didn’t put glasses out and we’re not very accommodating/lied and told us that we opted for the crush bar (when we didn’t). We also ordered late night snacks and the placement of the snacks was so far away from everyone that nobody even knew that they were there. Kinda crazy to pay $1000 for toasted ravioli and have all of your friends say that they didn’t even know there was any.