Yosemite View Lodge

Please cancel reservation 8118304 (Cotton) I have emailed numerous times and asked for confirmation, but can not get a reply. I can not work out how to do it on your non-user friendly site and I have only had one response telling me my booking was still in the system from 'Jessika'. She asked if I still wanted it or if I wanted to cancel. I have replied at least TWICE and asked for confirmation and I have received nothing. PLEASE REPLY AND CONFIRM BOOKING IS CANCELLED. If I get charged I will post on Twitter. Rebecca Read less

We stay here any where's from once a year or every other year when we go to Yosemite Valley. 2 miles from the gate. We buy two night deal off of groupon. Jan to March 30. Wonderful!! Get view balcony room of Merced River. Nice kitchen , fireplace an Jacuzzi tub in room. Yosemite Valley isn't packed like rest of year. Hotel has indoor an out door pools small store an one restaurant ok but we bring all our food an eat on deck overlooking river. Mornings breakfast an coffee. Nice people there also. We drive up 140 never trouble with snow as maybe 120 hwy. Great place. Read less

Really rude service from the man at check in. Unfortunately I didn’t catch his name. We understood that check in is at 4pm (very late in our opinion) however did email on two separate occasions to ask the hotel for early check in at 12/1pm as, as an expectant mother after a long drive, I wanted somewhere to rest. Although we had no response to the emails, we still had to arrive early no matter what, so when we did, we were told they’d given the early check in rooms away to other guests - we were not entirely happy about this given my two prior emails and no responses to them. We had to wait 3 hours. When we asked what there was to do around the complex and area for the next 3 hours the man’s response was ‘nothing’. Considering the lodge has an outdoor pool, two spa pools, an indoor pool and restaurant, we knew this receptionist was just being outwardly unhelpful as these were all ‘things to do around here’ as we’d ask for. We also asked for walk information, we got none. When we mentioned the pool he said ‘oh yeah, go there.’ Again, neither polite nor helpful. We proceeded to the (outdoor) pool to wait. After about 20 mins we were then asked to leave the outdoor pool by another individual who said the pool didn’t have chemicals in yet so it wasn’t in use! The weather was beautiful so why wasn’t the pool in use?! No explanation. We told him we were only sitting at the side of the pool soaking up the sun waiting for a room and wouldn’t go in, he then left us alone. All this before we’d even set foot inside a lodge room!! Once in the room it smelt weird, but was a good size and clean (thankfully!!) - it did make us laugh that after a very frosty welcome we were offered an upgrade - paid for of course, haha!! All of this left a very very sour taste in our mouths. Due to this, we wanted to only stay one night instead of 3, even googling other lodges, shame no other places were available and we had to stay for the entire time. The positives... The lodge itself is nice/average - (looked a bit like a trailer park), rooms are a good size with a big bathroom, our room was clean, the shop by reception is okay, the surroundings are of course beautiful. The outdoor pool and outdoor spa pool are nice - when you’re allowed to use them! Parking is free. Negatives... expensive for a trailer park, rude reception staff, attitudes of staff, late check in times, the indoor pool isn’t useable as it is very old and needs a make over, outdoor pools and spa pools are only useable when the lodge decides (no dates to denote opening hours so one can only assume this is the case), rooms smell a bit odd and WiFi is €30 for three days - a rip off. Summary- I wouldn’t recommend this accommodation. Such a let down. Read less

The Yosemite View Lodge is in an ideal location in accessing the park. It was about a 10 minute drive away. The room was ok and functional. The kitchenette was handy and there is a little shop were you can buy food to make. This saved us some money which was good. There is food services but looked average. The room was functional but looked a bit dated. If it is the park you are really interested in then you can't go wrong really. Read less