K Bar S Lodge, Ascend Hotel Collection

We stayed two nights at this beautiful hotel. The grounds are beautiful. Everything is kept up and updated. Our room was in the main lodge area on the second floor. It was so clean. There is nothing we can say negative about this place. The breakfast that comes with the rooms is above the rest of the hotels. Fresh fruit, pancakes, eggs bacon and even ham on Sunday morning. It was just outstanding. We loved it here. We even enjoyed the fire pit in the evening with the chairs around the pit. It is a 10 out of 10!

I dont understand the negative reviews. I guess you just can't make some people happy. The facility and our room were excellent. Staff was friendly and helpful with useful recommendations. Really a nice setting with great views from our room. Perfect spot to stay when visiting Mt Rushmore and the Black Hills. Highly recommend.

Giving this extremely well located hotel 5 stars although the rooms are fairly small and showing some age. We stayed in the main lodge in a room with a distant view of Mt. Rushmore. But you see the mountain mainly from the non-carved side - although Washington is visible on the far left. Still the setting/view was excellent because the property is so well maintained. A highlight was the buffet breakfast - more hot and cold choices than you would expect and wonderfully fresh and well prepared. The pub and bar is a spartan, no-frills place but the food was good and the service was above average.

Great location and beautiful surroundings. The front desk people were very nice and helpful. Otherwise that was the best part. The bed was uncomfortable, the room was pretty small and weirdly the sink was not in the bathroom. It was just inside the entry door. In order to wash hands after any bathroom use, you had to open the bathroom door. When first going to our room I also thought the hall smelled like pot. The breakfast was tasty but in a very small area. Also watch your toast, while my family member was toasting an English muffin they turned there back for a moment and someone snatched half of it. Maybe it was the load of tour bus people that swarmed the breakfast area. The room we had was a forest view. Really just the view of a wooded hill. It was pretty still since you could go back to the main building to view the lighted monument at 9PM or walk around the grounds. One thing I didn't like was that in the main lobby, there were two people that I saw that were walking around in their bare feet. This was quite unsanitary and oddly dorm like even though these two people were over 60 and not together. Please were shoes, you can be barefoot in your room or at home.

Immaculate property. Amazing staff. Clean large rooms. Definitely request the main building and a balcony room facing Mt. Rushmore. Worth every penny. We had room 1219 and it literally was the best! Top floor and deck in the sun facing the mountain. Wonderful firepit area. Great continental breakfast! This is where to stay when visiting this area.

We spent 3 nights here and other than the very standard hotel room we loved the nightly fire pit, hot tub, and mountain views. The breakfast buffet was decent with cheesy scrambled eggs with peppers. We had dinner one night at the pub that has exceptional views and decent food. The chicken tenders on my buffalo chicken salad were on the small side but the rest of my family enjoyed their meals.

Stopped in block 3 (room 3116) and whilst this does have a view of the mountain … it could have been any mountain and certainly couldn’t see the monument (from any angle) Mentioned as we paid extra for this room But the hotel itself - about 10min walk into keystone Room was spacious and clean - certainly nothing was dusty and dirty as per a previous comment. Everyone in hotel were very friendly from the checkin staff, housekeeping and the bar staff Breakfast was basic but enough … it was a buffet style with 1 meat and usually scrambled eggs The pancake maker was out of order A small selection of pastries We had dinner here one night (dinner closes at 8pm) Good selection of standard food (burgers, salads etc…) and drinks selection was very good Service by the team was excellent Lots of free car parking onsite

I spent 4 miserable nights in Building 2 at this lodge. I toured with Gunther Tours in Maryland. My Room was 2115 and it was awful. The view from my window was the side of the mountain. The bathroom was dimly lit and when I stepped out of the shower a centipede was crawling across the bathroom floor. The towels were smelly and coated with dust. The floor needed to be vacuumed. The floor was full of dust and human hair, and there were long strains of human hair on the bed I slept in. The room smelled dusty and musty. A very bad experienced.