Parking Nightmare
We are old time Marriott Platinum people and thought we would try Radisson with their 50K points bonus promotion. On June 14 we had a very friendly check in and received a nice room. The room was clean, quiet and nicely furnished. Everything we tried worked fine..ie no elevator hold-ups, great wi-fi, great TV channels, asked the maid for extra room coffees etc. But then..it happened. We went out for dinner and returned to find no vacant parking spaces all the way around the hotel EXCEPT directly in front. We went to pull into a space on the left front (facing the wall) and saw a sign on a pole...RSVP 44 parked only with an arrow pointing to the left side of the front. Then we drove to the other side of the hotel front and every space had stenciled on the front curb RSVP 44 only. ie the entire Hotel front except for two 20 minute check-in spaces were reserved for the Hotel Bistro/Restaurant, RSVP44. We parked in one of the spaces and went to the check-in desk and encountered a large, serious looking desk clerk and asked if it was OK to park in front of the Hotel since there were no spaces available around the hotel. He responded immediately, "The spaces in front are reserved for the RSVP 44"only, then said "You will have to park in the garage." What gives...why don't they ask the RSVP transient patrons to park in the garage. In all my years of staying at Marriotts, I have never encountered hotel parking spaces where the transient hotel restaurant patrons get priority over the paying overnight guests. There is incredible compettion for loyal hotel guests....I guess the General Manager at the San Jose Radisson has placed his priority on the RSVP 44 patrons.