AVOID AT ALL COSTS - WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE YOU WILL EVER EXPERIENCE!!!
We recently experienced what was quite possibly the worst customer service we have EVER received at a major hotel and based on our experience at this hotel, I would NEVER stay at another Radisson anywhere in the world. We booked a room at this hotel for an anniversary weekend and pretty much consider ourselves very laid back, easy-going people that are far from high maintenance folks that rely on hotel staff to “appease” us, but every single interaction we had with the staff of this hotel was horrendous and it just began to wear on our patience. It started when we attempted to check in a full half hour after their listed 3:00 pm check-in time and it took them almost 20 minutes to determine whether the room was ready for us. During the course of our visit, we had three separate employees tell us that the hotel is basically always run extremely understaffed thanks to the manager, who one of the valets affectionately referred to as “Dragon Lady,” and we certainly experienced this every time we tried to call the front desk for anything from our keycards not working (this occurred on 5 separate occasions) to calling to request that a valet pull our car up (another huge scam that I will get into shortly). Every single time we had to call the front desk for anything, it took no less than 80 RINGS (!!!!!) before anyone answered. Half the time we just gave up and walked down for what we needed after waiting 5+ minutes for these people to answer. One of the times I went down, I got there just in time to witness a disgruntled guest returning to the desk to inform them that they had given him the key to an already occupied room, which did not surprise me considering the fact that the customer service person that checked us in had a trainee badge on, but no one was actually helping her with anything despite the fact that she was struggling and was unable to answer any question we asked her. The manager (apparently “Dragon Lady”) would occasionally stick her head around the corner to listen to customers venting their frustration, but at no time did I ever see her come out to actually take action to help anyone.
Then there’s the whole parking situation – the hotel has a surface lot is clearly not large enough to hold the cars of everyone that stays at the hotel, so you are stuck with valet service most of the time, which obviously holds you hostage to having to call the front desk and listening to 80+ rings any time you need someone to pull your car up. We also experienced that the valets (one of whom we had the pleasant experience of witnessing changing his pants between cars in the parking lot!) will lie to your face about the availability of parking in the surface lot. On several occasions, we were informed it was full and they had blocked it with cones even though we could clearly see that there were numerous open spaces in the lot. Apparently, they like to get their tips for the valet service, which is ridiculous considering that they charge $20 a day for parking! When we’d finally gotten frustrated to the point of having had enough and contacted the manager to vent our frustration on the poor service we had received right from the time of check-in, she was very rude and condescending and basically had the attitude of “if you have a problem, leave.” This woman clearly was not qualified to even be servicing horny tourists behind a Circle K for twenty bucks, much less managing a major hotel. The corporate people at Radisson should be ashamed to be running such a shoddy operation in a major tourist city. Never, EVER again, Radisson!!