Beautiful location and amazing 80-degree heated pool right on the lake on a snowy winter trip. Honestly, nothing beats the location here - it was perfect for our baby to run around by the lake watching the geese and beautiful scenery.
The day we arrived, there was no snow - it was a sunny day with a clear view of the lake. The next morning, due to the night snow storm, we woke up to the most beautiful view of the mountains and lake all covered in snow. It was perfect timing to visit Tahoe because we got to introduce fresh white powder to our baby.
FYI - Make sure you bring tons of $3-$5 cash for tips - you'll be tipping everyone: valet, bell man for bag cart, housekeeping, janitors, waitresses or staff bringing out the complimentary s'mores or morning bar cart items (fresh juices in cute glass mini jars, and mini muffins, granola, etc.), etc.
Now, for the reason we deducted one star. Get ready for a short novel, lol.
When we arrived, they gave us a room that had hair everywhere (barf!) and it wasn't cleaned (one of the reasons we chose this resort was due to friend's recommendation about it being super covid safe). We noticed the front desk and Adam immediately upgraded us to their king suite lake view. Loved the suite and the views, but still wasn't 100% clean.
Unfortunately, the heater went out in this king suite at 1am and blew cold 60-degree air conditioning directly onto my face and family's faces, including our baby. I woke up with a sore throat and freezing. Immediately called the front desk at 12:30am and the night manager, Jose, sent us an engineer to fix the heater.
So, there I am pregnant, cold, exhausted, sick from the freezing air blowing directly onto our faces, in the resort robe ...and just waiting for the engineer to arrive at 12:30am-1am. Well, I waited and he couldn't fix it. He even took apart the heater with a flashlight while doing his best to not wake the baby (thanks, engineer!).
Waited another hour for housekeeping to bring up space heaters. Along with leaving the doors open to the other room so that heater could warm up both rooms and the two space heaters, we survived the night. For a luxury resort and a $1300/night suite, you'd think the room would be ready and working 100%, but it wasn't. So, there I was up for almost two hours just to get space heaters, so my family and I could stay warm. Of course Jose felt awful, so he offered $100 in resort credits, but that doesn't even cover the DAILY occupancy tax, county tax, $25 parking fee, $55 resort fee, and $7.70 resort fee tax (which total way over $150 daily), but it's the thought that counts, right?
The next morning after my horrible experience that night of moving rooms then broken heater, Miguel, the front desk receptionist told us two engineers would take a look at our heater while we were out. Well, they arrived right when it was our baby's nap time and they said they fixed it. Lo and behold, they did not fix it because same cold air blowing directly on our faces happened again that night (good thing I checked before we went to bed). Adam called an engineer up again who confirmed the heater was broken. So, Adam offered us another night in the suite at a Tahoe King rate, which was really nice of generous of him. Kudos to him and the service team trying to make things right for our special getaway.
Although we had the worst first night dealing with cold air in snowy Tahoe at a luxury resort, we still had a great thanks to the location right on the lake where baby could enjoy seeing the geese and playing in snow in a safe area, and thanks to the 80 degree heated pool overlooking the lake that we certainly took advantage of! Thank goodness for those towel robes - saved us from freezing to death from the pool back to our rooms.
Overall, we'd recommend and definitely stay here again! read more