Rum Runner Inn

Stellar service. The young women who cleaned our rooms, helped carry our luggage up and down the steep stairs, and manned the front desk were amazingly helpful.

Rooms were comfortable and the harbor side rooms have spectacular views and balconies with a table and chairs.

Our group of twelve had the entire upper floor to ourselves.

Their restaurant is closed during COVID.

So much to do and see in this charming area.

The photos online do not do Justice to the location of the Rum Runner Inn or the views from the rooms. Our room looks out on the waterfront, including the Bluenose II and the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. The Inn is clean and nicely decorated, and the Innkeeper is friendly and helpful. We can walk to anything of interest from here. I think it's under appreciated.

We chose to stay at the Rum Runner Inn when we visited Lunenburg this summer.
(We did also eat in the restaurant - which we totally recommend!)

Perfect location! Overlooks the harbour.
Now to be fair we booked the "cozy" king room. That means it was a smaller room/ small bathroom too. Okay for 1 night -- might find it difficult for more than that --- not much room to hang clothes or a place to put your suitcases. FYI
However, the room and particularly the bed and linens were sooo comfy.
For us it was just fine, and wonderfully quiet at night. :)

Staff were very friendly too.

Now as for the restaurant -- do recommend the seafood chowder with homemade biscuits.
Yummy!

Parking is on the street or at a nearby lot but parking overnight is free and even during the day street parking is only $1 for 4 hours :).

Neat to stay right down in the historic district of Lunenburg. Bed was a little firm for our liking and the ac is a portable one in the corner so a little loud. But probably that way because of the historic building it is. Was neat and clean and staff was helpful.

Ludenberg
. The owner Tim is one of the nicest men I've ever met .,,This is absolutely one of the most beautiful quaint places I've ever been to and the rum runner Inn couldn't be more perfect for a place to stay.
We had room number seven which I believe is the best room in the Inn. You are right on the waterfront the view is spectacular and it is peaceful and quiet I was a little afraid of being on the main waterfront however there is no where else I would ever stay and I will definitely be back

Great hotel, nice little touches and hospitality. Food in the restaurant was delicious and I recommend the curry. The owner was great, very accommodating. Rent a blanket from the bar to sit outside on chilly nights. Highly recommended.

I really was not impressed with my experience at the Rum Runner restaurant. I specifically went because I had heard that it is under new management and now serves curries and sushi, which are fairly lacking in this part of the world.
I was disappointed to see only 2 curries on the menu, chicken masala and fish masala, neither of which looked appealing.
So I opted for sushi. They did have a nice selection of rolls, and I decided on a bowl of miso soup, a smoked salmon roll, and 2 pieces of inari. When I ordered this with the server she had no idea what inari is and kept asking me what kind, until I had to point it out on the menu. She went away with my order only to return a few minutes later to inform me that their sushi chef was on break and wouldn't be back for half an hour. I was on my lunch break and only had an hour, so I said I would wait, as long as he would be back in the half hour. She brought me the miso soup, which was terrible. It was so salty I could barely eat it and it tasted like it had been made with chicken stock. I have eaten a lot of miso soup and made my own and there is no reason it should have been so salty, as the miso itself is salty, plus the proper stock used is called a dashi, made from seaweed and mushrooms, which is also salty. The sushi chef finally returned and made my roll, which was lackluster at best. None of the ingredients were cold, they were all room temperature, which really is not food safe at all. Especially the fact that the smoked salmon was also at room temperature. I was hungry and at this point didn't have time to go elsewhere for food, so I ate it. I don't know what happened to the inari, but I never got it (it also wasn't on the bill), and I wasn't too upset after the disappointing salmon roll.
On top of all of this, the prices were way too high; $9.00 for the roll (which was only 6 pieces), $7.00 for 2 pieces of inari, and $4.00 for the miso soup.
I will not be eating there again. =(

On vacation in Nova Scotia. Wandered into Lunenburg on the way to Digby from Halifax because we heard it was quaint. It is amazing. The little town is adorable. The people are wonderful and with the waterfront, the ancient buildings and the art galleries, there is not a cuter town in all the maritimes or New England. Looking for internet we wandered into the Rum Runner for lunch. WOW! The food, the service, the view, the ambiance are all perfect.
We had the scallop appetizer, which are the best we have ever had. We have had them in some of the most expensive and fancy restaurants in the world and paid more per scallop than we did for the entire order and they do not compare. These were unparralled.
We each ordered the lobster roll and having eaten my weight in lobster rolls up and down the New England coast, this one is at the top. It has the amazing fresh bread and it is so clearly high quality. In a Boston restaurant it would cost three times as much.
Dessert was fantastic, but you don't come here for cheesecake or chocolate cake (it is great), but you are coming for the best seafood imaginable and they damn near give it away.
Only wish we lived close enough to be regulars.

Returned to the Rum Runner Inn for dinner. Once again our expectations were exceeded. I had the lobster Thermidor and it was absolutely amazing. Others tried the Oysters. Again delicious. In the interim I had tried mussels at other restaurants and the ones served at this restaurant were, by far, the best. The fish and chips were not only gluten free but also delicious. Everyone agreed this place rocks.

Great hotel right on the water. The view is out of this world.
The rooms are very comfortable and well decorated.
The only reason this rating is not a 5 is the lack of parking. By the hotel is covered with parking meters from 10 to 5.
I really enjoyed my stay.