La Follette, Tennessee
Traditional lake home on beautiful Norris Lake with the best views and deepest water. Covered boat dock. Private sunning/hanging/playing dock. Gentle grass covered slope to deep water in an amazing location! No steep steps to lake! Takes your breath away. Chapman Village Lane is the most picturesque road on Norris Lake. A challenge to exercise on because of the distracting beauty. A place to have fun and relax to recharge yourself and family.
Upon arrival to this gorgeous property, my family and I were stunned to find a gorgeous, well maintained, and well appointed home. Access to the house was very easy and the owners gave us very easy instructions to follow to access the house. The only reason I gave this house a 3 for the online listing category, is that the pictures in the listing do not do this house justice. Though accurate, when you walk into the rooms they are gorgeous. They comfortably accommodated our family of 8 adults and two kiddos that were 4years old and 20 months old! The lake access was the best we have ever had in the 10-12 years we have rented at Norris. Thank you, Jen and Ralph for sharing your wonderful home, your veggie garden, and for checking in throughout the week to make sure things were going well! We LOVED it!!
Over all great house Owners were very helpful the whole time even when we had problems with our boat
This was a perfect vacation for our family of 12. Jen, and Ralph are the perfect hosts, communication was excellent right from the get go. Very quick to respond to all our questions. This home was better than we could have asked for, great location on the lake, nice quiet area. House was equipped with EVERYTHING we needed! Loved the nice large dock, kayaks were a great bonus! Would definitely stay here again!!
Beautiful property and atmosphere! Everything was promised as listed. 1st time to Norris Lake and we weren’t disappointed.
The house is nice how the dust and cobwebs inside the house are a bit much. The dock was better last year. The owners are very nice people who care about the property.
We so enjoyed our stay at Norris Lake! The check-in process was so simple and the house was very clean. The house had absolutely everything needed for cooking and relaxing. With the exception of a blender (bring your own if you want to make Margaritas!), we did not lack for anything we needed in the kitchen, and we cooked 4 out of the 7 nights we were there. You can tell this is a home well loved by all the personal touches and great choices for furnishings and decor. We loved the layout of the house, with the bunk room on the first floor, and the rest of the bedrooms upstairs. We loved the loft area for the kids to watch movies, while the adults stayed downstairs to play card/board games. Management was very prompt to reply to communication, which we appreciated. On our first night there we wanted to grill, but only had one tank and that wasn’t full, and even though we were able to use what was in it for that night, we didn’t like that management made it sound like we were not truthful about it’s use when we contacted them about it. They responded saying it was full the day before. ??♀️ They did offer to send someone with a full tank right away, which was nice. We loved that the house did not have long staircases to the lake, but we did feel the two concrete staircases that are there need handrails for safety. The house had an abundance of towels to use for showering, and we loved that since there was 13 of us for the week. The only other suggestions are a new dryer- be prepared to have to run it 2-3 cycles to get anything dry! Also, as other reviewers have mentioned, they could use a dock upgrade, but it is usable and they have, obviously, made sure the house was the priority, as it should be. All in all, we loved the property, made great memories and look forward to more years of visits to Norris Lake!
Wonderful quiet location. Only Verizon cell phones work. T-mobile sometimes gets service at the counter seating overlooking the water. There is no WIFI. Not an issue for us, just FYI, as we should have planned differently. We loved it enough to book again next year.
Very nice House in a great location on the Lake. The AC worked pretty well considering it was in the 90s all week. Loved having the extra under counter ice machine outside by the grill, was perfect for keeping our coolers topped off. I was not impressed with the cleanliness of the house upon arrival. I would consider hiring a new crew. we left the house cleaner than it was when we arrived. Over all good time had by all.
The property owner is overbearing and looking for a reason to charge extra fees for not following her check out procedures to a letter. We did not empty every waste basket and left a dish or two in the sink and were assessed a cleaning fee. I have stayed at over 3 dozen VRBO properties and never been assessed any fee for damage or cleaning. This lady is crazy and looking to charge guests. Any missed item on the check out list whatsoever will result in a $50 additional cleaning charge. She is constantly texting and annoying you prior to arrival and when you are there. If you have a boat larger than one that fits on a single axle trailer do not even think about pulling your trailer back to the property. Parking is not good at the property. I cannot recommend this place. But primarily because of the owner.
Smooth process. Excellent communication with owners.