Driven Cellars Tours

Awesome stay- clean room- good service

Decent property, clean room, quiet neighborhood. BUT, they charge $10 parking per night, but they DO NOT tell you about it when checking in, and there is no signage about parking at the front desk; I found out the next day after check out, I saw charge on my credit car, I called front desk, and they said I had written my initials on a check-in piece of paper, I asked for a copy, and they sent an unreadable pdf to my email; I'm from out of town by the way; and what makes it more irritating, I did not even park on their premises, I parked in the shopping center next to the hotel because their "parking" was overflowing. Very upset about this hidden charge!!

We stayed midweek in April (which is off-peak, “shoulder season”) and payed $150/night for a small double room with no breakfast, stay over service or microwave. I found the lack of microwaves, in the rooms or another accessible location on the property very irksome and inconvenient, when properties that charge less usually have them. They had one in their kitchen and 3 out of 4 of the front desk staff were open to heating food for us, but one was not, and he was unfortunately the first one we had encountered. The reason this was such a sticking point for us is that we are a family of four who came to Tahoe City to spring ski Palisades at Tahoe on a budget (we have Ikon passes and our own equipment to that end), and can’t afford to eat out for every meal, particularly at the sort of quant, medium to high-end restaurants that predominate in Tahoe City. So we typically buy prepared foods that require microwaving for one or more meals a day, and I didn’t relish having to go “hat in hand” to the front desk to ask them to heat four separate plates of food, particularly when the lac