Voyageur Quest Algonquin Cottage Outpost

We finally returned to Voyageur Quest from overseas after 4 years: minus one child, plus one girlfriend, and both hospitality and the weather didn't let us down. Nor did the internet! The recent addition of internet access may not have kept the e-mails away, that is a matter of pure willpower, but it did allow us to watch Messi's magic, as Argentina easily defeated Croatia in Qatar. Most memorable was the sound of the lake singing and groaning through the night. Thanks so much to John and team for their hospitality. After several weeks of a whirlwind trip through Quebec and Ontario, skiing and visiting family and friends, the boss said this was definitely the highlight and her favourite part of the trip.
Jan 10th, 2023

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Jul 4th, 2022

Be very careful about renting a cottage from this company! This was our 2nd year in a row renting their Nippissing cottage. The first year was great but what happened this year was absolutely shocking. This issue with this cottage is that they have neighbours that are quite close. The cottage sleeps 12 to 15 people and we had a group of 7 the first night while we were waiting for 3 others to arrive the next day. We paid $2800 and a $750 security deposit for a 3 night stay. We were in our cottage cooking dinner around 10pm when an employee came into our cottage to tell us we were being too loud and that the neighbours had complained. We said okay no worries we will tone it down a bit and we made sure not to play any music the rest of the night. Later on around 11pm we were sitting around the fire when all of a sudden the neighbour from next door started yelling at us from the bushes very rudely telling us to shutup and knock it off and that they were going to take our $750 security deposit. Our group began to become a little upset about what was happening so far as we were very excited for our once a year cottage weekend with friends who we don't get to see very often. Essentially it felt like we had to whisper or just go to bed otherwise the neighbours we're going to be upset. We didn't even have any music playing at all. We were just simply talking around the fire. This wasn't an issue for us the year before because the neighbours weren't here last year. Most of us ended up going to bed around 2am. The next morning we were awoken at 8:30am by extremely loud banging on our door. I answered the door and was handed an eviction notice from an employee who said we needed to be out by 11am! She said the neighbour complained multiple times and that our contract states if we get noise complaints we will be evicted. We completely understand that all rentals have this type of thing in their lease because they don't want huge parties going on but I've never expected to actually get evicted since i've rented many cottages in the past and never had this issue. We kind of shrugged this off and figured that once we went and talked to the owner of the company at the outpost that we would be able to apologize and try to be even quieter on our 2nd night but that isn't what happened. The owner John didn't want to give us any 2nd chance. We thought we deserved atleast a warning after the first night and that now we would know we have to be super quiet the 2nd night. This wasn't the case at all. He said we need to be out by 11am and that they are keeping all $2800 for the full 3 night price we paid and that our $750 security deposit is going to the neighbour! So here we are, after 1 out of our 3 nights, being told to leave after we spent all this money on the stay, bought 3 days worth of food, drove 4 hours to get here and 3 people in our group hadn't even arrived yet. We went over to the neighbour and tried to apologize and said if you want us in bed by 10pm we will do that but please don't make us leave. We were basically begging them to allow us to stay and they said no. The fact that the neighbours are incentivized to file noise complaints because they know they get the groups $750 security deposit is absurd. The employee that came over at 10pm to tell us the neighbour was complaining, even said that this has been an ongoing issue with this cottage and these neighbours. Of course they are going to file a noise complaint if they get $750 out of it. I would complain everytime too if I was them and just make a quick and easy $750 every weekend. We are not a super rowdy group with loud music blasting and the way we were treated had us all in complete shock. To think that there's people out there that would do something like this to other people had us all in disbelief. Going forward I am going to be extremely cautious about renting anything in fear that this could possibly happen to us again. We plan on looking into taking legal action against this company as what they are doing isn't right and can't be legal
Mar 9th, 2021

Great cottages. A nice place to be oof the grid for a few days. The lake was awesome, and the floating sauna is a great treat in between cold dips in the lake.
Mar 2nd, 2021