candice leung Review of Riverside Resort - RV and Camp...
We were excited to have a relaxing long weekend in...
We were excited to have a relaxing long weekend in Whistler, but were quite disappointed. We booked a yurt, which was nice enough- it was clean, warm, and had decent beds. What was not great was the location of the yurts within the resort. The Scandinave Spa is right next door, and they are doing some sort of renovation or construction, so ALL guests are being rerouted down the road where the yurts are located to access the spa. This means that there are literally people walking by your yurt every few minutes from morning until night. This also meant that there were constantly shuttles, taxis, and golf carts driving by, shuttling people to the spa. They have also put up giant spotlights that are turned on as soon as it get dark, which are powered by an extremely loud generator that is literally right next to the yurts. We arrived at night so didn't notice any of this until the next morning. We decided to ask about moving to a more quiet yurt, but were (rudely) told by staff that there were only two free yurts (even though they were almost all empty, by our observation), and also stated it would be an extra night's fee ($150) to change. It would have been nice for the resort to have either put us in a yurt that was further from the road, or to have at least told us that there would be a lot of noise and people walking by. It felt like we were staying in a parking lot all weekend, which was far from what we were hoping for.
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