Best opportunity if you want to have wonderful pictures and a Great experience at Emerald Lake. You are parking in a hotel parking lot lower than the parking lot for visitors of the lake. You will not Park by the lodge itself, they have a shuttle bus which drives you up and down from the parking lot to the lodge.
Service stuff is very friendly and helpful.
The main house is also location of the restaurant and bar. Non-complimentary breakfast (yes you always have to pay for it), lunch and dinner are served in the main lodge house. Breakfast and also dinner selections are good but also very pricey.
About the rooms: Rooms are very nice, but a little bit dark. Be reminded the rooms have no AC, no fridge (you are not allowed to bring any outside food with you anyway). The fireplace is really nice, didn't use it in summer. The small balcony was nice to have an overview over the Lake. The room also doesn't have a TV, but with such a scenery, view and breath-taking landscape and lake you don't need a TV. What is not so nice is that they don't have any WiFi in the room, so you always need to go to the lobby of the main lodge house to be able to use WiFi.
What was really nice that we got greeted by the lodge with a small welcome card due to our honeymoon trip.
The rooms aren't very soundproof, could hear the loud neighbors below.
But all in all it was an amazing experience