Full Moon Resort

It was a delight working with Melanie Warner — the Operations Manager at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. I officiated a lovely wedding there this past Saturday night and was very pleased. Melanie is very professional and organized and I enjoyed working with her to ensure that the ceremony was a huge success. Thank you Melanie and to all the staff at Full Moon. The food was really delicious and the chef did a great job of offering a wide variety of great options that were very well prepared.

My daughter and her new husband got married here in late April. We had snow showers for the rehearsal and there was ice on the fountain on the morning of the big day, but the sun was out all day. We flew kites, played touch football, and had a magical if somewhat chilly afternoon ceremony in the beautiful «Lower Grove». The party in the lovely tent was warm, extremely well staffed, and a huge success.
This is a completely charming venue. It is not high luxury, and if you’re looking for immaculate, freshly painted accommodations with all new fixtures and paved walkways everywhere, this is probably not your place. If instead you want a beautiful mountain valley, clean and comfortable rooms, good hearty meals and extremely gracious and capable staff, then you will be happy here.
Our affair was a complete success and the resort was a big part of it.

My husband Pete and I booked our wedding at Full Moon Resort in November 2013 for the following Memorial Day Weekend (they gave us a great deal being only 6 months out, but this meant a lot of scrambling for us). On our first visit the grounds were snowed covered so we didn’t get a great sense of how beautiful the place would be; we met with Paul to go over our options, he was very thorough and gave us multiple different scenarios to think about. Once we booked, our planner Melanie stepped in. I didn’t know what to expect, I had never interacted with a wedding planner before. Melanie was very dry, at first I thought she was unenthusiastic and was a little put off, but soon realized she deals with soon-​to-​be brides on an everyday basis — she’s got to stay sane somehow. Pete and I were living in Indiana at the time so we were planning everything remotely. We had multiple phone conversations and lots of emails back and forth to iron out the details. The checklists were done and we could only hope for the best.
The weather on May 25^th, 2014 was amazing. It rained the day before and the day after. Everything fell together perfectly, the very few regrets I have about our wedding had nothing to do with Full Moon. The staff was very accommodating and helpful. All of our guests were impressed with the rooms and grounds and wanted to know how we found this beautiful place in the middle of nowhere :)
We would pick Full Moon a thousand times over if we could relive our wedding day.

My daughter and now son-​in-​law had a wedding weekend at Full Moon. We couldn’t ask for a more beautiful weekend. Weather was perfect! Food was extraordinary! I mean we’re talking every meal! And the Staff! Every person who works at Full Moon felt like they were part of our family! LeighAnn was our event planner and there aren’t enough words to say how terrific she is! She helped create a fairytale for Johnny and Becca!
We started on Friday night with a BBQ and a campfire! I never tasted ribs and mac and cheese that was created from such a talent chef! Saturday was hiking, swimming in the beautiful pool, corn hole contests, kickball and just sitting around visiting with family and new family that we’ve never met!
The ceremony was in the lower grove by the creek. So beautiful! Then cocktails at the Inn. The Hudson Valley spread was so farm to table. And the best part was there wasn’t the usual over the top– too much amount of food! Perfect amount to set the stage for a gormet dinner. We ended with pies! I bought sparklers to lead the way to the after party at the performance tent! We ended with a good bye breakfast!
Couldn’t have been more perfect! Thank you ! Thank you!
I see some other reviews that talk about how secluded Full Moon is. Well, it is so you need to do your homework and know what you personally want. Badmouthing the venue because you didn’t educate yourself isn’t their fault.
This is an out of the way, quiet, tranquil space. A time to reflect and get away from the noise and confusion of the world. There is wi-​fi, no cell service but we were all too busy having fun and enjoying life to need a cell phone. Being disconnecte sometimes is really a great thing!

decent place but it could use a few improvements. it’s pretty secluded, which is great, but there’s no cell phone service. i guess there is wi-​fi but i don’t have a smart phone. the hotel rooms they have here don’t have land line phones either, so communication here can be kind of rough. the rooms don’t have TVs either, which i got along without just fine but if you have kids they might get bored easily seeing as how there’s no real towns close by to do anything in.
the place is beautiful though, unfortunately when i was there the full moon couldn’t be seen because it was too cloudy, there was a bit of rain as well. most of the staff seemed very helpful, the people at the front desk and the grounds guy were very helpful. most of the servers were pretty good too but i’ll get to my one grip a little later.
so the room i stayed in was pretty nice. it was all wood walls and while it was hot and stuffy when we got there it freshened up a bit when we opened all the windows and got the ceiling fan going. they also provided an oscillating room fan as well, which was definitely a plus. now here’s the part that i love. i have skin allergies, so i have to do my laundry in special detergents and use special soaps and shampoos, and all the soaps here were natural products with no artificial fragrances! i got to sleep on clean sheets without my skin breaking out!
no onto the food. friday night there was a welcome BBQ. best meal of the whole weekend. i love legit smoked BBQ, and while this wasn’t smoked it was still good, moist and tender pork and chicken with a few selections of BBQ sauce (which i believe was cattleman’s). the sides they had were good and they had a local IPA in the beer selection that was good as well. the next morning there was a pretty good breakfast. bacon, eggs, blueberry pancakes, cereal, muffins and more, very nice start to the day. the lunch a couple hours later was probably the worst meal of the weekend. not much of a selection, tuna salad of hummace on a pita. now onto dinner. the bread with dipping oil was good, i think there was a salad but i don’t remember, but salad is whatever. as for the main dish, i selected the steak which came with mashed potatoes. i know cooking that many steaks the same can be a pain in the butt, but everyone else at the tables had theirs medium rare and mine was medium. i’m not complaining about that though, i actually don’t care for rare, but i feel it was the server. mine was the smallest steak on the table, which is probably why it was more done than the others. the server also served me last at the table every time he was there, even if there was an empty seat, so maybe he didn’t like me, i dunno. i thought the steak and potatoes tasted fine but my friend’s dad the next day said that he felt it lacked flavor. the breakfast the next morning was good but i liked the previous day’s better. this time they had french toast, which was great, and also some egg dish that i don’t recall the name. it was ok but i would have preferred regular eggs. no muffins this time either.
overall i’d give this place a 3.5, maybe even a little more. i did have a lot of fun the weekend i was there, but i could see how someone else with a shorter attention span could have a bit of a problem.

My husband and I got married at Full Moon resort in May 2014 and were incredibly happy with the service and grounds and would highly recommend it to anyone! People are still talking about how amazing our wedding was!
We went to one other venue before Full Moon which was a disaster so when we spoke to Paul on the phone and met Michael, both owners of Full Moon, we were relieved. They were so kind and professional and we could tell they really cared about making our day special. Michael was mindful of our budget and helped us to plan a wonderful day for a very reasonable price. (The other venus we had looked at would have cost thousands more and would have required a lot of work hiring other vendors and whatnot). They give you options that could cost a bit more but we chose a cheaper menu and chose fewer amenities. We did choose to rent a barn for an additional price and it was worth every penny. The barn was gorgeous, I literally teared up when I walked in it the first time because I loved it so much. We used this for dinner and dancing and had cocktail hour on the lawn. There is also another barn, with a cool bar and sitting/​dancing area that we went over to after dinner.
The grounds are beautiful and there are a lot of different spots where you could have your ceremony. We chose to have ours down by the creek which was further back on the property but Full Moon provided golf karts to anyone who needed it to get to the location with. The gold karts ran most of the night too which was really nice.
There is no other word to explain the day of our wedding but magical. Full Moon was there to help us with every little detail (to helping set up our decorations, to putting down towels when I sat down on the golf cart — which I did not request but they wanted to make sure I didn’t get my dress dirty, to making sure all of our guests were having a great time). The staff was so nice and was incredibly helpful. Consuela was by our side all night, working with the catering staff, and she was amazing! Always there to make sure we had full drinks and smiles on our faces. She was just the sweetest and treated us like family.
With your wedding you are assigned a wedding planner, who you work with before the wedding to make sure everything is planned and set up ahead of time. We worked with LeighAnn and she was great and thought of every detail. Nothing went undone and everything went smoothly! We had one guest forget to mention he was allergic to peanuts so when he ate the salad we chose which contained almonds, he had a really bad allergic reaction. LeighAnn was there to help him and we didn’t even know it happened until the next day when she mentioned it to us, which was great because I would have stressed over it otherwise.
The food was incredible! We chose chicken and salmon and the vegetarian option was a stuffed pepper with feta, corn, black beans, tofu, etc. All of the guests loved the food. The drinks were really good too, not too strong and were fairly poured.
You are required to rent a certain number of rooms, depending on the package you get. We were able to fill all of the rooms so that was no problem. The rooms were really neat and we had no complaints. We chose a room with a skylight, which was a bit small but it was really charming. There are plenty of other bigger rooms, each with it’s own benefits. You assign where people stay, so make sure you ask people to RSVP and ask for specifics of what they need in a room. There are some houses that have shared bathrooms, others with private bathrooms. There are also private cabins, which are beautiful. Some of our guests would not stay overnight unless they had a private bathroom, so things like that are important to think about. (We didn’t have any problems with that though, there are enough rooms with private bathrooms. We just put family in the houses with shared bathrooms).
I could not recommend Full Moon enough. Everything went smoothly, the staff was amazing and the grounds were beautiful. Full Moon made our day so special and we are so grateful to them for all of their hard work!

Only wish it had been spring — at this lovely resort for a family wedding. We really didn’t understand the «bathroom down the hall» statements and were not sure what to expect. We were in the Main House — upstairs room on the left. I’ve had NY and Paris hotel rooms larger than this one, with better beds and quieter walls, (I know that one family member snores) BUT that was my only issue. The location was fantastic — the wedding in the Lodge across the street, the food was amazing, the ambiance of the locale and how neat it was to be «away, away». Reception at the Barn House was perfect — close enough to the main building where they had the cocktail hour. Then back to the Lodge for the afterparty and we were up until 2am. Didn’t sleep well the bed was lumpy and I heard the guests in the next room. The hallway bathrooms upstairs were brand new, clean and the shower was hot and strong, soaps and shampoos were excellent. We heard from other guests that the outer buildings didn’t have as many bathrooms and showers, so double check. Kudos to the staff on a fabulous breakfast buffet and lots of coffee! We needed it!

When my husband and I got engaged we knew we needed a special venue to go along with our special story. We were best friends since we were 10 years old, went to high school and college together and finally after 20 years I opened my eyes to see that the love of my life had always been right in front of me — he said he knew it all along!
We knew from the start that we wanted a weekend getaway and for it to be rustic. We began our search with Full Moon Resort and when we pulled into the drive for a visit we knew we found the place! Meeting Henry, one of the owners, really put the icing on the cake because of how helpful, insightful, and accommodating he was. He gave us a full tour of the facility including the grounds, the reception tent, the barn, the performance space and even the lodging. There are so many amazing things about this venue but I will list my TOP FIVE:
#1. Exclusive use of the property! This allows you to customize your wedding and have all of your guests stay on site!
#2. Multiple locations! There are multiple locations to entertain your guests over the course of the weekend, even in the winter! My husband is a musician so we took full advantage of the performance space and had a Friday night concert with him, his band and the other talented musicians in our circle of friends and family.
#3. The food! Crazy, right? Some people will choose wedding venues based on their caterers however that was not even on our minds when we booked Full Moon Resort. We wanted the remote location, the rustic feel, the ability to have all of our guests stay on site so it felt like our own home in the woods and boy were we surprised when the food was outstanding! Probably the best MacNCheese and collard greens we’ve ever had. Ever.
#4. The service! From the moment we met Henry, as mentioned above, we knew we were in good hands. Once we were introduced to our very own event planner Leigh Ann we knew we were in even better hands! Leigh Ann worked with me on every detail of the weekend — from our Friday night dinner and the music that would be played to every step of the ceremony on Saturday and the details (snacks, marshmallows, candy, etc) for the after parties! She was amazing and everything went off with out a hitch.
#5. Free Honeymoon! We took advantage of the winter prices at Full Moon Resort and got married in March. We also took advantage of the free Honeymoon in St. John which was the most amazing, most beautiful place we ever went. We highly recommend staying in this remote cottage, it’s exactly like the reviews say it is.
The most important thing about getting married at FMR is to set your guests’ expectations from the start. This place is rustic and your guests should know it. I’ve read reviews about the lodging and yes, they are close quarters — especially the shared bathroom spaces but if your guests are there to celebrate you, as long as they have a clean place to sleep and bathe who really cares? And if you care that much then you probably shouldn’t have your wedding here. The lodging that’s «down the road» from the main area is NOT that far away. That’s actually where my husband and I stayed and it was 30 degrees and snowing! We made it work and it was just fine. I can’t recommend this place enough — 5 stars doesn’t represent how wonderful it is and our friends and family are still saying it’s the BEST WEDDING THEY’VE EVER BEEN TO!

My fiancé (now husband) and I both live in Brooklyn, but we met in Maine. When looking at wedding venues, we wanted to find a spot in the NYC area that would reflect the feel of where we first met & fell in love. After a lot of online research, we selected a few places to visit, and Full Moon was love at first sight.
Our primary goal for our wedding was to find a place that would allow all our guests to really spend time together — for old friends to see one another again, and for new friendships to form. Our ideal was a kind of «upscale summer camp» setting — Full Moon provides exactly that, and does it incredibly well. We have heard time and again from our guests that it was the best wedding they’ve ever been to — what more could we have hoped for?
Melanie was our event coordinator, and she consistently went above and beyond with her availability in planning, answering countless questions and working inexhaustibly to ensure that she & the Full Moon staff would create the weekend we envisioned. I couldn’t believe the dedication that she and the entire staff showed to our event — their hours were long, their work never stopped, and they were unfailingly kind, hospitable, and thoughtful. Everything they did went so far towards making our wedding weekend the success that it was, and we could not have been happier with the results! They accommodated several special activities/​events on our behalf, including a Saturday morning yoga session, a nature walk, and lawn games. It was even better than the wedding we envisioned/​hoped for, and that is such a precious gift.
The food was consistently fabulous, and Tim and I (thanks to Melanie) actually got to *eat* our wedding dinners, which is almost unheard of! ;) The chef accommodated us beautifully when it came to desserts — rather than wedding cake, the brave & talented Adam willingly recreated 2 family pie recipes, which guests were absolutely ecstatic about.
Since we live in Brooklyn, planning was also a bit of a challenge in terms of finding vendors, etc, in the area, but Full Moon also did a great job of offering solid recommendations. We had amazing service from all our Full-​Moon-​approved vendors, including Dennis Nutley of Green Cottage (florist), Alex Mazur (DJ), and Karen Neblung (hair).
There are definitely a few challenges about attending a Full Moon wedding — other reviewers have touched on a few of these, and I would say the primary are: 1) the distance of the location from nearby airports, 2) parents needing to travel w/​crib, and 3) lack of cell service. We had a few guests who are used to a certain level of «resort» that I was concerned about, in terms of comfort, but they all had a wonderful time. If you plan an event at Full Moon, I think one of the keys is properly preparing your guests for what they will experience — this is not a luxury resort, but a very well-​kept, well-​run, clean, welcoming woodland retreat, with family-​style cabins. Full Moon does a great job of giving you written language that you can send out with invitations and post to websites, etc, to articulate the kinds of experiences your guests can expect there, and what they need in order to be prepared.
The cost for guests attending a Full Moon Fri/​Sat wedding is not insignificant, and that was our primary fear/​worry going in to the weekend. However, the amount that you get for your money at Full Moon is an *astonishingly* good deal, particularly in comparison with anywhere closer to or in NYC. (It was actually the most cost-​effective venue we found!) On the whole, our guests were very happy to pay their part for this weekend getaway.
Overall, I really can’t recommend this venue enough, for those who are looking to make new memories with dear family and friends. Full Moon provides the space, meals, and details for you to have an intimate event that will undoubtedly be cherished for years to come. One of the best «recommendations» I can give is that my mother, who was initially very skeptical about our wedding venue choice, and not usually the «rustic cabin» type, has suggested that we make a habit of annual reunion trips back to Full Moon! We could not have been happier, and we hope that word will spread about this Catskill gem.

When I started to look for a wedding venue, I came across some beautiful photos that were taken at Full Moon Resort Weddings. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was looking for, but seeing these pictures, I knew I wanted– autumn, outdoors, a creek running through the land, a barn, a big tree with lights weaving around branches, an after party bonfire, even an after party barn, so the party doesn’t have to end!
This was all the good stuff I could see in the pictures. So, I put some images together and started selling my fiancée on the idea.
We took a trip (driving up from Brooklyn, it was 3.5−4 hrs to Big Indian, NY) We met with the owner, Michael, who showed us around and explained how things worked there. When we had a look at the guests accommodations, we found that the rooms were small, many of our guests would have to share bathrooms with neighboring rooms… all things considered, the lodgings were a bit dilapidated. The after party barn smelt of mildew and was cold. The barn bathroom didn’t work– toilet didn’t flush… Still, we eventually ended up putting a down payment, to hold our date (there was only one day left in October & I really was set on timing our wedding with the turning of the leaves)
After a lot of hesitation & traveling back up to see the place again. I realized that the way it actually looked did not reflect the photos saved in a folder on my desktop. I kept looking at these pictures, found online, for inspiration, but in reality, the creek was all muddy. There were mud patches all over the grounds, covered up with mulch… the tent windows were smudgy & dirty.
The last day I was there There was a wedding reception being set up. A friend of the bride & groom was walking around the tent setting up the table #‘s, etc. We spoke for a bit and he explained to me that the tent wasn’t heating up at all, so the bride & groom were considering holding the dinner indoors somewhere, but they were still figuring out an alternate location. That was pretty much the tipping point that resulted in us seriously looking around for another venue.
If you are considering planning a wedding here– be sure to go in person, look around… see how you like it. I’m attaching some images of what the grounds looked like when I was there last.

I just had the most amazing weekend of my life at Full Moon! We went up for a weekend wedding. The grounds were beautiful, the buildings were cozy and mountain-​y, the staff was unbelievably accommodating, the food was unbelievable and I truly have not had so much fun in years. What a wonderful place to spend such a special occasion with friends and family. I am coming back as soon as possible!

I’m a city girl, born and raised in New York. So when my friend Dan invited me to his friends’ wedding in the Catskills, I naturally assumed we would be staying in a conventional hotel, and that the ceremony would take place in a church, with air conditioning. Nope — Dan forwarded me the confirmation email he received from the resort and wait, what? No television? No cell phone service? Whoops. Good thing I didn’t bring my laptop (to watch porn, obviously).
After a three hour long drive up to the Catskills, we arrived, in the pitch darkness, at what looked like a camp. (As it turned out, guests can indeed camp on the premises.) We checked into our room, which was located in a rickety house a few hundred yards away from the main house, and I was aghast to see that there was one bathroom for every five rooms. (I have bathroom anxiety.) I screamed when a bug flew by my face.
In the pitch dark, we wandered out to the nearby barn house where there was an open bar. I rued that I had chosen to wear three inch heels and wondered if the gravel would ding my shoes. Employees poured us stiff drinks in plastic cups and offered to drive us to the campfire in a golf cart. OK, a campfire? What? Hey, I like golf carts though. But the campfire was fun, and people were friendly. I met the bride and groom to be, and boy, were they attractive and lovely people. We all chatted, and then Dan and I retreated to our room. I’d been initially nervous about the lack of air conditioning as it was a humid evening in New York City but that’s the thing about the Catskills: there’s always a mountain breeze. We slept with the windows open, and in the morning, I was actually cold.
Breakfast was provided at the café in the main house and I was expecting some junk like bagels and eggs, which is standard continental crap. But no: there were vegan options like tofu scramble. Fresh produce limned the buffet table. There was standard breakfast stuff, like eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries, pastries, granola, but man, that tofu scramble was delicious. I ate a heaping plate of it and went back for seconds.
Afterward, we were encouraged to wander the grounds. There was a swimming pool and a creek, so Dan and I walked over to the creek and dunked our feet in the water. I fell asleep beneath the trees and woke up just in time for lunch.
Back at the café, there was another fantastic spread of eats, including pitas stuffed with a Thai marinated tofu. I ate three of them. I’m not even vegan. There were beautiful salads featuring locally grown organic produce. I nudged Dan and said, «This food is surprisingly delicious» and he could only nod, because his mouth was full.
The ceremony was not held in a church, but in a field that required a short walk from the main house, and the reception was set up in a tent nearby. Booze was copious and flowing. Everyone cheered. People kissed, and after the dinner, people danced awkwardly like drunk chickens, and I made fun of them. There was karaōke in another lodge nearby, but as we were drunk and tired, we went to our room and slept.
In the morning, that gorgeous breakfast was repeated. I lumped a greedy portion of the tofu scramble onto a plate and finished it despite not being hungry. It was just so delicious! Hungover guests wandered in, barefoot and desperately gulping at coffee. Staff was cheerful. Rumors of skinny dipping in the pool, and a confrontation with a bear abounded. Perhaps we should have stayed up later. God knows I love to run around naked in front of strangers and stare down wild beasts.
I was actually sad to leave, especially once we arrived back in Brooklyn, stepped out of the air conditioned chamber of our rental car and were enveloped in a brutal, humid cask. I longed to be back by that creek napping, or even just sitting under an apple tree in the grass, marveling at the simple joy of life without a working mobile phone and wireless internet. I didn’t even have any problems with the shared bathrooms and was able to poop in peace. Sure, I turned on my cell phone the second we hit the highway so that I could check my messages, but that brief stop we made at a local produce stand to buy tomatoes and fruit made being incommunicado well worth it.
Consider this city girl humbled.

We came here for a wedding and were assured that while the venue had no cell service, our bare-​bones cabin (¹⁄₈ mile down the road from where the wedding was taking place) would have a landline.
Instead, it turned out the cabin had only a party line – linking our cabin with the service in another cabin. And when it came time to leave our babysitter with our children and go to the evening part of the wedding, we discovered that the phone was dead. Either the people in the other cabin had left the phone off the hook or there was something wrong with the phone, but either way, the staff at the resort seemed entirely unconcerned with fixing the problem.
Since we couldn’t responsibly leave our babysitter with our kids in a cabin with no transportation, no cell service, and no landline – where we couldn’t reach her and she couldn’t reach us in an emergency – we had to skip the later part of the wedding.
The area may be pretty, but I seriously dislike this resort for their complete disinterest in making sure we had a very basic service in place, thus wrecking our ability to enjoy the otherwise lovely event we were attending.

I wish I could give it both 1 star and 5 stars. The 5 stars would be for the lovely wedding location and lush, green everywhere. The breakfast was pretty good and the staff were friendly and helpful. So far so good. But…
We were given a room in what is called the «New Moon», which is essentially a house across the road and really not within walking distance. They must have picked it up really cheap when the previous owner lost their shirt or something. The place is a friggin’ embarrassment and a total dive. It makes Motel 6 look like the Hilton. It is total crap and they charge you waaaay too much for it.
We had a room, with no shower or toilet. It’s just a house, right? So there are four rooms upstairs which share the one toilet and shower. For that we paid about $ 150/​night. But it gets worse. Much worse…
The room was supposed to have a king sized bed. What you get is two twin beds crammed together. And even then, the mattresses aren’t the same height, so there’s this cliff in the middle. The furniture is all Salvation Army grade.
There are dings in the walls and things are generally less clean than you would expect. This is essentially a run-​down 1970’s house that they got for cheap and are trying to make as much money off of it as they can. I’m sure most people only go there once, so why should they worry about return business?
The toilet leaks so there is always water on the floor.
The dishwasher also leaks, so there’s a puddle on the kitchen floor after someone runs a load.
I talked to one guy who had a room downstairs that had its own toilet and shower. For that, he paid $ 260/​night. And he had the two twin beds crammed together thing.
The outside doors look very weathered and do not open or shut properly.
What a rip!
If you happen to be going to a wedding or other party at Full Moon, find somewhere else to stay. They do a great wedding, but really rip you off for the accommodations. Whoever owns this place should be embarrassed. I’m sure the employees are.

As most of you know by now I am a tech junkie but this place literally «turned me off» and it was amazing. No cell reception anywhere around here and even cable only had about 18 channels. Beautiful is a huge understatement.
This is nature in all of its beauty and if you like driving on some fun filled back country windy roads, this is it! The wedding we went here for was probably the most fun wedding I have ever been to and we even had about a 7 minute walk through a huge field to get to the ceremony. To top it off a huge Blue Heron took off in the middle of the wedding.
I hope to go back here in the middle of winter to see the snow cover everything!

Had a great time at a wedding here. Nice land, good colors in the fall, totally quaint and chilled out. Would reccommend for anyone looking for a resort-​based event. It was totally fun! :)

I was out here for a three day music festival. Basically we had the place shut down for about 50 participants. Full Moon has plenty of space with the Lodge, Dorm, and motel across the road.
Fantastic Roadhouse feel to the music venue which literally hangs to the side of the road. The big fireplace at the back of the venue is great for gathering and the bar through a door allows for conversations under the music being played on stage.
The food was great with fresh vegetables and creative recipes for my vegan taste buds.
This is one of those places that your torn to recommend because it’s a hideaway. Just wish they had a studio and I would be all over recording there.

C. and I may not have stayed here this weekend, but we spent quite a bit of time on site because it was the location of our friend’s wedding.
The Full Moon is many things. It’s an event venue — they host a lot of weddings and other celebrations. It’s a restaurant — there’s a full kitchen downstairs, and the food (We had lunch, dinner, and coffee.) is excellent and vegetarian friendly. And it’s a performance venue — there’s a performance hall across the street, and for new year’s, I believe they hosted Strangefolk. (In fact, one of the owner’s, Michael Densmore, may be related to the founding drummer of the Doors, which could help explain the music connection; they have an active music schedule.)
While the little cabin occupied by the bride and groom, her brother, and others appeared to be spacious and comfortable, the room we saw in the main building was overly small and spare — the kind of place you’d stay if you planned to spend hardly any time in your room at all (just to sleep). Bathrooms in the main building appear to be shared.
The wedding itself was held in the barn, which can be heated in the winter with a blower, and which features a sizable balcony. The grounds are quite large, and there’s plenty to see; we went on a geology walk along Esopus Creek.
An intriguing property — and well worth checking out if you’d like to get married in the Catskills. It’s a wonderful location and has a lot to offer. The staff also seems extremely competent and accommodating.