High Hopes Bed and Breakfast

We'd been on the road for two weeks when we stayed at High Hopes, and the one positive thing I can say is that it made us glad to be heading home. I chose High Hopes for the lovely terrace overlooking nature, but the busy railway right below it wasn't mentioned. About 50 freight trains a day pass through Hope, BC, directly below the Whistler Suite at High Hopes, and some are two and a half miles long. The ear plugs didn't let us hear the birds, read peacefully, or even talk without shouting over the trains. On our first day, the heating was stuck on permanently. With the door closed to block the train noise, it felt like sleeping in an oven while the air con fought the underfloor heating. We were also locked out on the first night, at about 10:00, because Pauline had forgotten to give us a key and didn't hear the doorbell. We thought nobody was in. Her excuse about seeing our car doesn't hold up, since she gave me the name of the taxi we'd taken. Some reviews praise the breakfast, but we found it barely edible. If you stay at High Hopes, choose the "continental" option. My cooked breakfast was hard eggs and cheap sausage. I did change breakfasts, so the records are wrong. And, as a British person, I know tea is made by pouring boiling water over the leaves. About the wine, you offer and sell home-brewed wine to customers illegally and require cash because the service is illegal. You didn't add it to the bill or ask for payment until now, so that's your problem. Did we enjoy it? It offered some relief from the intense heat in our room. That wouldn't have happened if you'd hired a professional to replace the thermostat instead of your handyman friend, who clearly didn't know what he was doing. Apologies don't make up for locking us out.