Radisson Hotel By Mall of America

My husband and I stayed at the Grand Lodge in June of 2007~and we had a blast~!

Not only was our room extravagant, the water park was a BLAST and the hotel bar and restaurant was amazing~!

You must try their pizza~

YAY!

Tami and Jeff

The rooms were very comfortable equipped with a great high definition TV.

The restaurants were very accomodating and large portions of good food.

The hotel staff was very nice. The hotel was located near the airport, Mall of America, IKEA, and had an attached water park with many activities. The only negative I found was the air conditioning system. It cycled on and off frequently which interupted sleep.

The size of the water park is exaggerated and is expensive. I had two 13 year olds with me who were bored after an hour. You have to walk through the lobby to get to the water park and you are not allowed to bring towels from your room or bring towels back to your room from the water park. There is no parking near an entrance. You have to park in the parking lot and walk to the main doors. I could not even always find an empty spot.

The only restaurant in the hotel did not have a kid friendly menu and was expensive. We were there three nights and our room was never cleaned well. The dirty glasses were left and not even replaced with clean ones. One of the bunk beds had dirty sheets when we arrived and the bedspread on the king bed had a big stain on it. The in-room refrigerator made noise all night and froze everything we put in it.

Go if you like to blow money. The water park is over-rated, hotel overpriced. When we attempted to check in, along with dozens of other guests on Memorial Day weekend, their computers weren't working & apparantly they had no back up. We were told (for 21/2 hrs.) that repair people were on the way. The manager was extremely rude & uncaring, we were not offered anything for our inconvenience. When we returned home, I realized I had left a pair of earrings in the room, I emailed the hotel asking for their return, if found. They weren't worth much but I really liked them. My email was never even acknowledged. I've stayed at many motels, & I've been very pleased at places costing half as much. I would recommend this only as a way to blow your money. If you like water parks, go to Wisconsin Dells. They are better & so are the deals.