The Holiday Hills Resort is a multi-lodging resort located on Eddy Bay in Eddyville, Kentucky, west of the Ohio River. Sitting right on Lake Barkley, many guests at the resort can find themselves participating in various water activities such as fishing, boating, or playing and relaxing on the beach. The resort also hosts a variety of events designed to include entire families.
Established on eighty-six acres of land—3000 square feet of that being lake-front property—the Holiday Hills resort hosts a variety of lodgings, campsites, docks, and the camp store, among other locales. There are 17 lodgings on the property of various types that are available for guests to stay in. Five of those are the log cabins—the first-ever accommodations built on the resort—and then there are the six Townhouses, Lakeside Place 1 & 2. The Cabin in the Woods, Studios 1 & 2, and the Holiday House.
Each of the log cabins includes a living room, a dining room, a full-sized kitchen, and a wrap-around deck where guests can enjoy a view of Lake Barkley and Eddy Bay. They can accommodate up to seven people in their three bedrooms and have a single bathroom with a shower and tub combo. One guest said, "The cabins are perfect for families and provide a great view of the lake." The 6 Townhouses on the property, which are among the larger units at the Holiday Hills Resort, are able to accommodate eight to twelve guests each. These all include a sitting area and kitchen, as well as two bathrooms and various bedroom layouts. They also come with a back deck that has a grill and picnic table overlooking Eddy Bay. Lakeside Place 1 & 2 are smaller, able to house four people each in their two bedrooms, along with a kitchenette and single bathroom. In contrast to the other units, they each have 1000 square feet of outdoor living space with a grill and picnic table overlooking Lake Barkley. The two Studios can accommodate four guests each as well but only have one bedroom, along with a kitchenette and living room. "For those seeking a secluded location," the owner recommends the Cabin in the Woods, which is tucked away in the woods on the property. It has one bedroom, a full-sized kitchen, a living room, and can sleep four people. Finally, there is the Holiday House, which, having just been renovated, is the newest of the accommodations at the Holiday Hill Resort. It features four separate bedrooms, a full-sized kitchen, two bathrooms, a living room, a laundry room, and a deck space with a grill, making it the largest of all the lodgings on the property. Each of the units also offers a complimentary dock slip among the 62 different dock slips for guests so that they may enjoy themselves on the lake if they choose to.
The office and camp store is another feature that the Holiday Hill Resort provides, where guests can purchase branded apparel, snacks, fresh donuts, coffee, fire starter and firewood, quick need items, and fishing gear and bait, among other things. They can also license their boat so that they can bring it out onto Lake Barkley or rent golf carts to travel around the 86 acre property. Because the resort is located right on the lake, guests may enjoy boating, fishing, relaxing or playing on the beach, and other marine activities.
Also, nearby the resort in town, guests might find themselves at Adventure River, a water park, or Metal Madness, an airsoft shooting sports range that is "family-friendly." There is also the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, a nature reserve that offers various outdoor activities. Some restaurants guests could visit in the area that Danielle, the owner of the Holiday Hills Resort, recommends is The Joint BBQ, Our Daily Bread, and Echo Charlies Bayside Restaurant.
Open from April 1st to October 31st, with the busiest season being from May to July, most guests staying at the Holiday Hills Resort might find themselves there in the summer season. According to the owner Danielle, the resort's slogan is "Welcome! You're at the beach now!". As every lodging can house at least four people and some up to 12, many of the guests that stay at the property are families, and as such, the staff strives to make sure "everybody is having fun" and "has something to do." To do this the Holiday Hills Resort hosts an extensive amount of events that their guests can participate in, which can be seen scheduled and detailed on their website. Some of these activities include movie nights, bingo, pool parties, kid's crafts, karaoke, scavenger hunts, trivia games, cornhole, and campfires. They also host a variety of food trucks every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day. One guest described the Holiday Hills Resort as follows: "The environment of the campground is very relaxed, and owners are super nice and accommodating. In fact, every staff I met was nice!"
The Holiday Hill Resort has been in business for fifty-six years, having first been established and open for guests in 1965. However, six years later, in 1971, the property was purchased by the Suitor family, a young couple with two kids, who began to build lodging on the premises as well as run the lakefront camping resort. In 1976 the 5 log cabins were finished as the first lodging on the property. Later, in 1988, the six townhouses were added as additional lodging, bringing the total to eleven available places that guests could stay in. The resort continued to expand as more dwellings were built and campsites added, as well as the 62 dock slips, until it was eventually sold at an absolute auction in 2019 to Danielle and her husband.
Though they have only recently become owners of the property, Danielle has been a part of the lodging industry since 2004. Having first started working on a resort when she was 16, Danielle talks about how she loved the industry from the beginning and knew that this is the field she wanted to work in one day. When Danielle went to college, she even got a scholarship from the resort she worked at in order to help her get a marketing degree, with the idea that she would ultimately use that knowledge and expertise to own and manage her own resort someday.
Now, 17 years later, she and her husband own two properties in the lodging industry. After buying their first campground in 2018, Danielle tells how she "loved the people, loved the campsite, loved the whole experience," so they bought another one, making them the current owners of the Holiday Hill Resort. Since purchasing the resort, they have made it a priority to update all of the units on the property and even completely redoing some of them. One such renovated unit is the Holiday House, which is Danielle's personal favorite. Currently, they employ a total of 12 staff members to help them run and maintain the resort. Beyond all of this, they fully plan to continue to expand and build more lodging on the premises. Because of all of these efforts, Danielle tells how many guests that had stopped coming to the Holiday Hill Resort under its previous owners have since returned and brought even more people with them.
Holiday Hills Road #1
Eddyville, Kentucky 42045
United States
Campground
Danielle
The Suitor Family
