Bavarian Inn Lodge

About Bavarian Inn Lodge

This is not a theme. Tony and Jarka Bloch are immigrants from what was then Czechoslovakia, and they have kept this hilltop lodge as a family since the 1970s. The Alpine look, the European gift shop, the Czech-German cooking that filled the neighboring restaurant for years: all of it comes from where they actually come from, carried across an ocean and set down in the Arkansas hills. When people talk about the old-fashioned hospitality here, they mean a family that treats guests like company rather than reservations. It is a small, honest place run by the people whose name is on it, and that is rarer than it should be.

What Bavarian Inn Lodge Is Known For

What the Blochs are proudest of is the welcome. This is a family lodge kept by the family, and the reward is a place that feels lived-in and looked-after: clean rooms, a quiet hilltop, private balconies over the trees, and hosts who genuinely want you to feel at home. The European heritage is real, so the Alpine chalet on the Ozark ridge is not a gimmick but a small piece of the old country the owners carried here and have tended for decades.

Amenities

• Outdoor swimming pool
• Private balconies or patios on most rooms
• Jacuzzi tubs in select rooms
• Fireplaces in select rooms
• Wide shared porches with hillside views
• European gift shop on site
• Trolley stop at the front entrance
• Free WiFi
• In-room microwave and mini-fridge
• Air conditioning and heat
• Private parking

The Room

Rooms open to the outdoors and, in most cases, to a private balcony or patio that faces the woods, so you can step out with coffee and see nothing but trees and hillside. Interiors lean cozy and homelike rather than slick, and several rooms add the touches you'd hope for on a getaway: a jetted jacuzzi tub, single or for two, and a fireplace to take the edge off a cool Ozark evening. Larger suites bring a living area and a wet bar, and beds range from a single queen up to two queens or a king. Guests most often mention how clean and quiet the rooms are, and how easy it is to just sit on the balcony and listen to the woods.

The Grounds

The lodge sits on a few wooded acres near the top of the hill, which is the whole appeal. There is an outdoor swimming pool for warm afternoons, and the building's wide shared porches give you a place to settle in with a view of the surrounding forest and the folds of the Ozark hills. Because everything perches on a slope, the setting is genuinely leafy and private, and the birdsong and quiet that guests keep describing come standard. A trolley stop at the front entrance makes it easy to leave the car parked and ride down into town.

The Experience

Staying here pairs naturally with Eureka Springs itself, a Victorian spa town stacked up the mountainside where no two streets seem to meet at a right angle. You can ride the trolley down into a historic downtown of steep sidewalks, spring-fed grottoes, and storefronts full of galleries and small kitchens, then come back up the hill to your own balcony and the quiet of the woods. It is the kind of stay that lets you have the busy, curious town all day and the still, green hilltop all night.

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