Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort South Lake Tahoe, California

Out of hundreds, there are ONLY 5 units with a view of Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort in this complex on the Lake, and since this is just a front for a high pressure, timeshare, racket, those view units are already taken.

It is a maze of unequalled proportions You must use a card to go in and out of the parking lot after hoofing a quarter mile to your room after using the card again to get into the building, then again when you think you have found your room, you will open the door to see there is an A and B of your room number and must yet again use the entry card! 4 times to get in after the gauntlet of surviving the” B on wheels” at the front desk!

The customer service is deplorable. At age 63, and alone, I was handed a map by a young man, that directed me through this maze to the wrong room! After stumbling through the hallways, dragging my luggage behind me, with no signs and finally found the lobby. When voicing my displeasure at the front desk , Manager Nurse Ratchett AKA Teresa Collins argued that the fellow was a good employee etc. I said, he had only one job and failed.. He gave me room directions to room 112, but my room was 212.
When I asked what her name was she immediately yelled “SECURITY!!! Suffice to say, after being threatened, I left. .Went down the street to the Econo Lodge with friendly service and easy access!

I called the Resort manager to complain. After speaking with Andre (useless) he promised good customer service if I returned. I gave it a chance, .returned to join 22 relatives, husband, grown children and grandchildren, only to be met at the desk yet again by Nurse Ratchett . When I tried to explain the number of family members waiting for my arrival. She said “We don’t operate this way… SECURITY!!!. AGAIN!!! And with no apology as Andre had promised!

So if you don’t mind extremely threatening service, are young and don’t mind the rudeness, including an arduous work out with possible back injury, before you settle into your room, and don’t care about a decent view. By all means, go but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I reserved a night stay at the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort over the Columbus day weekend. When I arrived I was told that they had overbooked and would have to send me to another hotel ( called the Tahoe Seasons Resort, a sister hotel). I was open to the idea, so I went. This place was old and definitely not equivalent to the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort in terms of quality. The next day I went back to the Lake Tahoe Vacation resort asking for a partial refund. They said yes. In fact, they said I would receive a full refund. Did I ever receive that refund? No!!!! I have tried communicating with the resort. Each time I called the manager is unwilling to talk to me. I have only been able to leave voice mail messages. Avoidance is their tactic. DONT go to the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort if you expect them to honour your reservations!!!!!!!!!!!!

Upon arrival, we were told that the computers were down and that we would have to “just go somewhere else for a few hours” after driving 6 hours to get there.. No apologies or courtesy. After waiting for an hour and a half we were finally given a room and a key only to find out that the parking lot was full and the parking pass they had just made us buy was completely useless. When we got to the room our door lock was broken and a mechanic had to come up and fix it. Our air conditioning and phone were both broken and we were woken up bright and early to construction noise. The front desk was so useless that they were even unable to simply issue a duplicate card to a room without changing all of the keys, so my family members keys all didn’t work anymore. We waited 30 minutes for a bellhop upon checkout and finally called down only to be told there were still people in line ahead of us. I am wholeheartedly disappointed with this hotel and their staff, it really put a damper on our vacation. Seriously, if you want a relaxing vacation where you can sleep past 8 am and have some of the simple amenities a hotel offers do NOT stay at the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort.

I stayed at the Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort from Dec 29th thru Jan 2nd and I had an absolutely horrible experience. Where to begin…..

So I checked in on the 29th and initially, they told me that the room was ready so they gave me a key. I went to the room only to discover that the room looked like there had been a huge party in it, it was a complete disaster. I called the front desk to see if they could get it cleaned before my family arrived. Their response was that they could not guarantee that it would be done any time soon, but that it would be done by the end of the day. I told them that it needed to be done right away, their response was that it wasn’t a very high priority and that there were other rooms that needed to be cleaned first. To there credit, I did check in before 4 pm, but they should have never given me the keys to a room in the condition that this room was in. The room finally got cleaned early that evening. The people cleaning weren’t even planning on change the sheets, I had to explain to them that someone else was staying in the room and I had to have clean sheets.

The next issue that I had was with regards to the valet. I left my brand new truck parked up front and left them the key. I told them that I did not want them driving my truck and that if they needed to move it, I would walk out and move it myself. I went out to get my truck later on that day, and I discover that they did, in fact, move my truck without my authorization. I later discover that my truck had a scratch on the door. The truck is brand new, purchased a few weeks before and was in perfect condition. i know without a doubt that they caused the scratch. They are denying responsibility and are refusing to do anything about it.

Overall, the staff was very rude. Every time I ask them for anything, whether it was help, getting a cab, getting the room cleaned, getting bags from my room it was NO, NO, NO. The funny part about this, is that in the sales brochure they mention how its the year of the YES. The owner of this company talks a big game, I can tell you first hand, they are no where near living up to their big promises.

The people from the sales office called us every day to try and get us to listen to their pitch to buy a timeshare. They even offered us free nights at the resort if we just attended. I didn’t want to be rude, but the truth is, I would never stay at the Tahoe Vacation Resort, even if it was free. I would not recommend this place to anyone, and I think buying a timeshare from them would be a horrible horrible idea and investment. BUYER BEWARE!!!

We experienced bait and switch tactics employed by Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort that you did. DO NOT BOOK A STAY HERE!! Chances are you will arrive only to be told that you have to stay at a lesser property than what you paid for. I’m filing a complaint with Priceline and the Better Business Bureau of California.

We booked our reservations on Priceline well in advance of our arrival on July 17 only to learn that they had overbooked us. We had to be relocated to another hotel up the street – far off the lake. We paid to be next to the lake – but they knew before we arrived that there was no room. What’s the point of reservations? This is a classic bait and switch operation.

I will tell you what the timeshare salesman, and front desk girls won’t.

1. A studio equals a tiny hotel room with a queen size bed.
2. The is no room service.
3. There are people trying to re-sell these timeshares already.
4. The housekeeping schedule is 1 visit/ seven days. If you need clean towels more often- call the front desk and we then waited 2 hours for them.
5. Do not count on hot water for showers. It just doesn’t work sometimes
6. Valet s (3) will watched us carry, unload and load our belongings, as well as watched my wife struggle to open the door to the resort, while waiting for their tip.
7. Ambient temperature was unpleasantly hot.
8. On welcome cards they “whited out” the change in ownership. Very tacky.
9. The resort needs to train the 19-25 year olds they hired concerning customer service.
10. We were charged 10$/day for them to park our car in an almost empty parking lot. (We were there during the offseason)
It was an unfortunate experience for us. We still enjoyed the lake, but will not return here, nor recommend this resort to our friends.