Name: Tribesman Resort
Address: 416 Cave Lane Branson,Cave Lane, Branson, Branson, Branson, MO 65616, United States of America
Rating: 8

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I was searching for a place large enough to accommodate 7 people with plenty of room , near the lake and wouldn’t break my budget. Tribesman fit them bill and more than exceeded my expectations! This is a beautiful resort and offers great amenities for families! They have thought of everything, from the club house with free games and free washers and dryers, to soap, fish food and even swim diapers. Although we weren’t able to fish due to the weather, we will be back and try our hand at fishing off the docks. The indoor pool was very nice since you never quite know what Missouri weather is going to be like in March,  so my Grandchildren made good use of it while we were there. The cabin we stayed in was very nice! Plenty of room for all of us! It had all the appliances and dishes you’d need and it was really nice to see the dinnerware and utensils for the little ones too! There was even a high chair if you need one. The only thing I might want to mention is that the rise of the steps in the unit (#1) is a little tall, so it was a little work for my husband and I to get up and down them, and we are in about average physical shape. The Grandkids were very careful after we got there to make sure they went up and down them slowly. I would definitely come back and stay here again! Thank you for such beautiful accommodations!

What a beautiful out of the way place!

Stayed here this past week with my fiancé, his mom, and my mom. His mother rented the accommodations and they were PERFECT!!  This unit could sleep many more than the four of us—there were 4 bedrooms total. On the main floor each bedroom had a large Mt bed and it’s own bathroom. The upstairs bedrooms each had 2 queen beds and their own bathrooms. This place was COMPLETELY EQUIPPED with EVERYTHING we needed!  I’ve never stayed anywhere that had so many extras!  Coffee, pancake mix with syrup, two patios, plenty of seating everywhere, fluffy blankets, an electric fireplace, every pot, pan, utensil, plate, cups, and and accompaniments you could think of. We honestly wanted for NOTHING!  Had a Walmart delivery for our fresh food and we were SET for the week!  The unit itself was SO BEAUTIFULLY decorated!  Very comfortable and peaceful. It was quiet and we felt safe. Best experience I’ve had in a resort!  Would ABSOLUTELY stay here again without hesitation!!!  We were so thankful to have such a wonderful place to call home for the week!

Absolutely AMAZING!!!!

We stayed here last year, and liked it enough to return - but this year was so much better!  The setting is wonderful - the lake out front, the deer, the swim dock - and this year the condos were much nicer, and there were new things to enjoy.  I was worried at first that there was no office on-site, but the management was totally responsive, any time we texted - it's a very good system.  We love the new kid's playground, and the game room.  In fact, one of our party (we had 3 families, in 3 condos) said we need to stay longer next year, just so we can enjoy all the things to do here at the resort.
Some favorite experiences:  Sitting together on the patio in the evening, talking and watching the kids play and chase fireflies.  Watching "our" deer come out to graze in the morning and evening.  Watching the kids play at the swim dock - and watching them enjoy the family of ducks who swam by, too.
I'm impressed with everything the new owners have done, and we look forward to returning next year.


What a great place for families!!

* This review expresses my personal views. Stay Away... Stay Far Away. 
* This IS NOT the resort it used to be. The owners sold out and it was split up into multiple resorts. Tribesman NO LONGER HAS ANY outdoor pools (no sun and fun) and offers only what I see as a DINGY, MUSTY, SWELTERING indoor pool with an absolutely FILTHY restroom. I did NOT want to spend any time in there... the windows were broken and covered with a disgusting white and gray film. The ceiling was rusted, mildewed and disgusting, lights broken and dripped musty water onto the very wet, very dirty floor. I feel the "pool-house" is literally falling apart. The siding is rotting and the foundation is crumbling. 
* I found the  "hot tub" to be a joke; an old, dilapidated above-ground unit with torn liner and cover and rusted supports. I didn't DARE try to climb the disgusting, torn, partially carpeted, crumbling wooden steps to get in it.
* My wife and I arrived just after 8:00pm. The unit was warm so we searched for the A/C thermostat. We could not fine it. We tried calling the office, the exchange and the emergency contact numbers but no one answered my calls. My wife finally noticed a wall-mounted air conditioner and it's remote. Sadly, it barely cooled the two-bedroom cabin. Each bedroom had a small, inadequate through-the-wall fan to try to cool down the bedrooms. 
* One of the bathrooms was absolutely disgusting with literally hundreds of dead insects strewn on the floor, and sink, towels...  there was also no hand soap in either bathroom. 
* The ceiling in the dining area was stained and crumbling. 
* The portable dehumidifier was full of water and had shut itself off. 
* We had made reservations weeks in advance but we're NOT NOTIFIED that they no longer had an outdoor pool. (We had also made reservations for a week's stay months in advance for late July.)  again  NO ONE notified us that they no longer had ANY outdoor pools. Many sites on the internet showed that they had 4 outdoor pools and a billboard along the road to the resort still boasted 4 pools. I feel that this was a  bait-and-switch tactic to keep past customers returning.

Stay Away... Stay far away

After many years of enjoying Tribesman, we learned last year that it had been sold. Last year 2021 wasn’t too bad, most of the things in our unit were the same as before. We missed the personal touch of Gayle and Arno but things were OK.

By this year there were many changes. About two months before our stay we were informed that our unit was no longer available and we being moved to another unit. Although the unit could sleep our entire group using sofa beds, we decided to expand into a second unit. Like many of the properties in the area the management was handled by absentee management companies that do not have the personal interest that real people have. And like most of these management companies they add a “Resort Fee” to their quoted prices. Instead of going to the office and picking up our keys upon arrival, we received an email with the combination number for our door. Another way to reduce cost to the management company.

Upon arrival Friday evening, we noticed the curtain for the back door window was broken and sitting next to the door. A minor problem, in the old days we would have run by the office in the morning and reported it and we planned to do it this year. Then we started to notice other problems. Smoke detectors that looked like the batteries had been removed. Wallpaper starting to peel of the walls upstairs. As we got ready for bed, our daughter called to us to come to her room. When she turned down her bed, she found a pair of men's underwear flattened between the sheets. At that point we realized reporting things to the office in the morning would be a waste of time.

On Sunday morning we noticed workers in front of our unit working with pipes running underground in front of our unit. We didn’t think much of it at the time. We ran out of paper towels in the kitchen and took the spare roll from under the sink, black and moldy completely unusable. I guess there had been a sink leak and the roll got wet and never replaced. Again a minor problem but another indication of management apathy. That evening when walking around the property we noticed a lot of water running across the road in front of the other unit we had rented. Again we didn’t think much about it. Later that evening the other part of our group called to let us know their bathroom and strong noxious odor when they tried to use the shower. Apparently there was some kind of sewer problem, but no attempt was made to notify us there could be a problem.

At the old Tribesman one of owner's pet peeves were customers who found a problem in their unit and instead of reporting it so it could be fixed, just left and wrote a bad review because something didn't work correctly. So we stopped at the office before leaving to let them know we were out of our unit. When we walked in, a lady came from the back to see what we wanted. We told her we were out of our units, she didn't care. Then we told her the problems in our units. She just nodded her head, took no notes to have the problems fixed, offered no apologies. Nobody cares.

What a difference from the review I wrote in 2016.  It’s a shame.

NOT the old Tribesman!

The service was acceptable from the front desk. The assigned room was as promised 2 Br/ 2 baths in the Timber Ridge Bldg. . The location on Indian Point at Table Rock Lake was very convenient However much maintenance was needed. The unit was very dirty and the appliances did not work properly. Most amenities were there but not properly maintained. The biggest problem caused us to check out early in that we found bed bugs in all of the beds including the fold out couch. I (the husband) came away with about 50 bits on my body. sleeping became impossible on the third night so we check out 2 Days early and could not finish our scheduled activities with our grandson an  His wife.  We do not recommend this resort for anyone to stay in the immediate future. Bed bugs can take 6-8 weeks to eradicate if done properly.

Visit to Tribesman Resort

I read a lot of other reviews on this resort before booking and chose to give Tribesman the benefit of the doubt.  Big, HUGE, mistake!  Yes, the accommodations are dated but that is overlookable if they are clean.  They are not!  The carpet in the bedrooms is old, musty and does not appear to be vacuumed on a regular basis.  Baseboards are dusty, the toilets could use a good cleaning as well as the bathtubs.  The ceiling fan in the living room area is coated in greasy dirt and the chain is as well.  There is a general feeling of neglect.  Everyone in our two cabins went home with numerous bug bites that occurred during the nights while sleeping.  All cabins need to be, at the least, bug bombed.  The most horrendous housekeeping deficiency occurred when one of the cabins pulled their bedding back to go to bed and discovered that not only had the sheets not been changed, there was blood on them!!!!  The other two bedrooms did not appear to have clean sheets either.  The office was informed of this the next morning (as it was discovered way after office hours) and all beds were requested to be changed.  The bloody sheets were changed but not the other two until we again went back to the office.  We were told that they had recently changed cleaning companies and they have had problems with them before.  SERIOUSLY?!?  And that is okay; you don’t double check the units before your paying guests are totally grossed out?  My review will be continued in full under details as it won’t all fit here. 

“BELIEVE THE ONE STAR REVIEWS”

When we arrived for our stay at the Tribesman in late June, we discovered that the property had sold and that it was now two resorts, The Tribesman and Victory Properties.  The people at the Tribesman were very polite and helpful, providing access to that property and its amenities, including pontoon boat rental.  Our reservations were now for units now owned by Victory Properties, but we had not been notified by anyone of the change in ownership, despite our making reservations in December of 2020.  We began staying at the Tribesman eight years ago, and while we did not actually stay there, this year, we were welcomed in our use of the property.  The beloved former owners apparently did not spend pandemic time updating and certainly did not notify their beloved customers of the change in ownership.

Things Have Changed

Everything was great until we tried using the water. It smelled like rotten eggs. The longer the faucet was on the worse it got. We couldn't even make coffee or make baby bottles. We had to go buy bottled water. Not even take showers. My mom drank the water when we first arrived. She didn't realize the condition of the water. She got sick and vomited for 2 hours. You could smell the sewer system everywhere outside. It must of been backed up.

Don't use the water

Quaint setting 5 minutes to Silver Dollar City. 30 minute tops to all other activities. Staff friendly and helpful, Elsie at the resort and Mark with our pontoon rental. Easy access to docks and landings. Cabins dated inside and simple but new units recently built near lake access that look really nice. If your looking for simple, affordable lodging at a reasonable price, this would be the place.

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