Packwood Big House : River view, AC, Wi-Fi, Covered Patio, Bar and Game Room! Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

Q: Is Packwood Big House : River view, AC, Wi-Fi, Covered Patio, Bar and Game Room! pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

Q: Where is Packwood Big House : River view, AC, Wi-Fi, Covered Patio, Bar and Game Room! located?

Located in Packwood, this family-friendly holiday home is steps from Gifford Pinchot National Forest and within 6 mi (10 km) of White Pass Sports Hut and Tatoosh South Trailhead. Backbone Lake Trail and Packwood Lake Trailhead are also within 12 miles (20 km).

10/10 Excellent

YINGYING

18 Aug 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities, communication

We stayed two nights and we had a great time with good friends.

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Vickie L.

7 Jul 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

My Rainier

Love this part of Washington

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Chastity P.

28 Feb 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Plenty of Room

This was a wonderful place to stay for our family. Really enjoyed the layout of games upstairs with a great space downstairs for a family dinner and conversation.

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Felix D., portland, or

24 Aug 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Big house in good location

Very spacious house in nice, vacation-friendly neighborhood. Within sight of the river. Local town was fun to visit. Great location for hiking Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens.

Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

karen r.

17 Jan 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Board-n-Ski

Great house with plenty of room for our group of family and friends.

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Zena S.

30 May 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Time Had By All

It's a relaxing getaway, we all enjoyed ourselves. Love the firepit in the back. Neighbors were friendly.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Shannon H., Bellevue, WA

12 Feb 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great for large group

White pass ski weekend for 8 adults - great location, ample space for relaxing and sleeping. Beds were uncomfortable but for just a couple nights - we made do. Hope to stay again next year!

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Joseph F.

5 Jul 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great House

House was clean and had tons of room.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Fred N.

12 Jan 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

House was great for large group get away.

Bring amenities, kitchen had very minimal supplies.

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Janice Z.

5 Aug 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Packwood

The house was very spacious. It was great having four bathrooms. Everything we needed was supplied. An abundance of towels and bedding. The game room was a lot of fun. Lots to do near by. Access to the river was just across the street and there was also access to a nearby club to swim and golf. We had a wonderful time and would highly recommend. And beautiful Mt Rainier was very close by.

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patrick H., Kent, Wa

13 Feb 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Ski Weekend

This place is great! We had extended family and friends for an annual ski weekend and was able to accommodate all of us. So many beds! The whole place is very well organized and labels for where things are. Kitchen was well equipped and all loved the game room. Highly recommend if you have a large group!

Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lila B.

3 Jul 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family gathering

Ada gray time. Plenty of room and thing for everyone to do

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mary S.

7 Mar 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Really nice!

We were very impressed with how clean it was. The teens and kids loved the game area with air hockey and foosball. Lots of room to spread out for everyone. Hosts were good with communication.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

karen r.

15 Jan 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Board n Ski

This was year 30 of our annual ski trip to Packwood/White Pass. The house was perfect for our group. Plenty of room for all to enjoy spending time together after a day on the slopes. Ryan has done a great job with updating the house and is very helpful and responds quickly to questions. Awesome time had by all.

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sara C.

17 Jan 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Close to the Pass for boarding!

We had an amazing stay at this property! We had planned a weekend of fun at the pass and the location was perfect! Clean home! Very prepared home as well! The property has items we didn’t even realize we could’ve needed(tinfoil) and had all the necessary cooking necessities!

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

patty e.

8 Aug 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Spacious house for large group

Very comfortable house with plenty of space to spread out. Kitchen was well equipped and living room was very comfortable to gather in. Our only complaint was the plastic sheets on the beds. If I stay again, I would remove them.

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Asia L.

29 Jul 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, location, listing accuracy

Great Way to Unplug and Reconnect

The house was placed in the quiet but perfect little neighborhood. It was far away enough that our group was able to unplug from social media/ internet yet still close enough to town for us to socialize. The best part was having access to the river (even though the water was cold), it still allowed our group to go outside and explore. There was just enough beds and bedding to accomadate everyone but it was a little different than what was listed on the page, it was fine though since our group was able to figure it out. There was some minor bumps but it was able to be resolved pretty fast once communicated with the owner. Overall, I would come back and stay again!

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jason M.

1 Aug 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Packwood Beauty

Perfect place. Use this as a base camp for MT Rainier hikes. The house is very clean. Multiple sitting areas and everybody felt like they had their own space. Multiple bathrooms. Perfect for large groups. Packwood is a very charming town to stay with multiple restaurants and other amenities that Ashford does not have. Would absolutely stay here again. Check in process was flawless. Hosts were great.

Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

J A.

14 Jul 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Nice place in a very small town

The house was very nice for our group. It had enough enough beds for everyone of us. It's located a bit outside the town but the location is very, just across the river. It's about 45 mins from Stevens Canyon gate. The house has a very nice backyard where we enjoyed our evenings. It also has a nice grill. The host is very responsive. The only issue we encountered was a mouse running amok in the house. Other than that, it's a very nice house.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Claudia P.

17 Jul 2023

Liked: Check-in, communication

Disliked: Cleanliness, listing accuracy

Enough for one night

The location is not bad if we consider the river in front however it takes 45 minutes to get to the Gondolas and 1 hour and30 minutes to get to the trails for Mt. Rainer. The house didn't have furniture to do fire outside or bbq, we found a mouse that we frantically try to dispose and upstairs was poorly clean. The games upstairs were broken like foosball table and hockey.

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

4/10 Poor

Thomas L.

26 Sept 2023

Liked: Check-in, location

Disliked: Cleanliness, communication, listing accuracy

Packwood, WA 09-06 to 09-11-23

This property, the home and yard, is not accurately described in the online offering data. The home had not been adequately cleaned, there were insects in the home despite our best efforts during our stay, mouse droppings in the kitchen and food containers chewed through for the final two days, bathrooms inadequately supplied, the outdoor area is entirely uninviting (dirty and unusable outdoor furniture), and we did not have exclusive use of the property...there was an occupied RV present in the yard and a 3-day "yard sale" was conducted on the property during our stay. This is our one and only unsatisfactory experience with VRBO home rentals near National Parks over the last 20 years.

Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Rachel A., Maple Valley

31 May 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location

Charming - Clean - Spacious - Relaxing

It's in the backwoods so it's not ultramodern but it makes up for it in charm. Plenty of space for a whole big family. It was super clean and plenty of bed space and seating for everyone to be comfortable. Our favorite "amenity" was the river access across the street. Some of the most stunning views of the Cowlitz River you'll ever see with rocks to throw and logs to sit on and enjoy the rush of the river. The house had all the kitchen amenities we needed. I would say the biggest downside was the carpet didn't have any padding underneath so you were walking on carpeted concrete downstairs. But the hardwoods throughout the rest of the house was lovely. Lots of parking and friendly neighbors. Our only complaints were that there was supposed to be sleeping arrangements for 16 but one of the bunkbeds was broken before we got there and we didn't know. That is the reason for the low listing accuracy star rating. And also they mattresses are NOT high quality. It was a little less than enjoyable on them but we were still able to get the sleep we needed. Overall, lovely stay. Lovely departure from the hussle and bussle of city life. The Packwood Flea Market over Memorial Day Weekend was AMAZING!!! Just 10 minutes from this rental.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

8/10 Good

Kami K.

8 Jul 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, listing accuracy

Good Property

Overall, it was a good, solid property that afforded my party of 16 a comfortable stay. It was clean, spacious and provided for our needs. As other reviewers have said, it is a more basic property—so, although there are more than enough dishes to eat with, if you are going to cook a great deal like we did, it has the basic supplies you may need, but you also may need to improvise some. Also, the property provides guests with just enough household supplies you may need (e.g., towels, dish soap, trash bags, paper towels, toilet paper, etc.), but not in excess. So, large parties may want to plan on supplementing these supplies if needed. As we had such a large party, we did use every towel in the house (we almost ran short) and had to be strategic about the hot water usage. I’m sure this would not be the case for smaller parties. And, as other guests have said, the mattresses were not the most comfortable. However, it was okay. Overall, we had enough beds for everyone and the kids/teens/young adults thoroughly enjoyed the game room. They spent a lot of time hanging out in that space playing foozeball and air hockey. The SMART TV in that room was well used by them also, and they enjoyed taking a couple of trips to the river. The additional TV located downstairs was broken when we got there and the grill was smaller than we anticipated (the main grill seemed broken, so there was a replacement grill), but we were able to adjust and had a great time.

Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2023

2/10 Terrible

Elena S.

22 Jan 2020

Disliked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, listing accuracy

Bad experience

We are writing this review as a word of caution for others to not have the same regretful experience we went through with this property. If you end up renting this place please do yourself a favor and upon arrival take a photo of everything that is broken, dirty, not working and so on. And report to VRBO immediately. The owner of this place held the majority of our security deposit ( a large amount) based on ungrounded accusations. We were blamed for breaking the hockey table score which we have not done. Everything in the house was left the way we found it.We stayed for the two nights before Christmas and believe it or not the fireplace had a sign that is is out of order. Seriously? The house does not have a fireplace to enjoy on a Christmas Eve? Bedding had black hair, so did the towels, floors dirty, electric kettle in the kitchen had a foul smell and we ending up boiling water in a pan. The place needs to be in a cleaner state and in a better condition. This is our first experience like that but we learnt our lesson. We absolutely do not recommend this place and in the future we will certainly be taking photos of anything and everything to have ourselves protected from people like this.

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

15 Jul 2024

Liked: Check-in, location, listing accuracy

Disliked: Cleanliness

Poorly maintained property with a horrible host -

In a nutshell: The property is poorly maintained - things are broken and falling apart. There are a lot of bugs inside the house. My Experience: When we arrived the property was still being cleaned - had to wait till 4:30 before we could get in. The game room had games that were broken (foosball table was falling apart and the air hocky table is in shambles) - there were discarded wrappers around the games and furniture The grills were dirty and smelled really really bad. The first night foot board trim on one of the wall falls off - (you could tell it was put back several times and was really lose) The next day - was supposed to be really hot - we came back to a home around 3 pm to find it was at 86 degrees inside - and the A/C would not work. Host had us troubleshoot the unit by turning off the power to reset the heat pump - It did not work - kept on messaging the host for help - but nothing. Exhausted we finally gave up around 9:00 pm only to wake up in the middle of the night to find the house freezing at around 67. Had to turn the heat on to make it moderately liveable. Messaged the host in the morning again letting him know the AC was finally working - They insisted they will still have someone come over and check it out. What is worse ? The host insisted we pay $600 for "damages" to their property (the trim and the non-functional AC). I should have paid attention to other guests who had similar experiences... Truely a trip from hell...

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2024

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