Everything Costs Extra, Nothing Included with Price of Room
We recently stayed 3 nights at the Palacio del Rio. The room was pretty nice, but nothing to write home about. There was no free wifi available in the rooms, you have to go to the lobby and it is a pain.... Basic cable is available in the rooms. The fridge in the room is not big enough to put much in, maybe 3 20oz bottles. Everything is overpriced. You can't even make a local call on the room telephone without being charged for it. I was not aware of the parking issue when I booked the hotel, I figured there would be somewhere to park my vehicle and it would be included with my reservation, wrong. Valet parking is $35 a day, or self park down the street for $22 a day. We paid extra for the river view room and personally, I dont think it was worth and extra $45 a day. We were on the 11th floor and you couldn't really see anything going on on the riverwalk. You can lean over and see the river and thats about it. The room service was rediculously expensive, $7 for a pb&j sandwich on the kids menu, plus a 20% charge. Ridiculous. After paying almost $600 for 3 nights, we still checked out with an additional $300 charge for parking and room upgrade. We did valet instead of self park. We will not be staying here again.