River Cree Resort & Casino

Price of room , too expensive, no incentives

Starbucks cree subs casino

Alot of police action

My wife and I just returned home to Holland, Michigan, in the United States. We traveled to Edmonton on Monday, and stayed for four nights at the River Cree Resort Hotel (March 30 through April 3). Our primary reason for being in Edmonton was to visit my wife's Mother, who is celebrating her 92nd birthday. She lives in a condominium on Glastonbury Boulevard, and this hotel is rather close. Apart from the construction disruptions that made parking somewhat challenging, we enjoyed our stay hotel very much. Our room was clean and quiet, the food in the restaurants was very good, and the cleaning staff did an excellent job with renewing our room each day. Except for one thing. Yesterday, when we returned to our room after time spent with my wife's mother, we noticed that a grocery bag containing some candy we can only get in Canada (Smarties, Coffee Crunch and several others) was missing. Our grandchildren here in the U.S. always ask us to bring these things back from our visits to Canada. We had spent about $60, and our gifts for our grandchildren were in that bag. But it was gone. I went to the front desk to ask about what might have happened. One kind front desk attendant said he would check into it. Later he called me in our room, and told me that he had talked with the cleaning staff, and no one knew why that bag of candy was taken from our room, or where it was. Later, the front desk staff sent a nice collection of other candies and two stuffed bears to our room as a thoughtful and caring response. But this morning, as we were packing to leave (we exited around 5:30 a.m., headed for the airport and our travels home), we found that three books my Mother-in-Law had given to my wife to read (they love the same kind of novels) were missing as well. More importantly, a CD that my Mother-in-Law gave to me was also gone. Today is Good Friday, and the CD was a Deutsche Grammophon recording of John Stainer's "The Crucifixion," one of the most powerful musical renditions of Jesus death that we commemorate on this day. We really liked staying at this hotel. We really appreciated the great cleaning service and the meals we had at the restaurants. We were very thankful for the follow-through the front desk staff took when we reported the "robbery" in our locked room. But the missing books and the very hard-to-get CD of Stainer's "The Crucifixion," especially with all of the family and religious memories attached to it, being taken from us are very hard to swallow. We know these things cannot be recovered, but we are saddened that this happened to us at this hotel. We will likely travel again to Edmonton to visit Brenda's mother, as long as God allows her to be with us this side of eternity. Until yesterday we would have immediately made plans for another stay at River Cree hotel for our next Edmonton visits. Now, with these losses and disappointments, we will look for other accommodations.

food has become worse at the tap 25.(i.e. clubhouse sandwich was always made with 3 slices of bread and now has 2 and less filling but higher price) Will never play their slots any more.Machines are set as tight as legally possible. This has become the rumor for months.

We like the resort for a getaway from our home in Calgary.

Expensive

The location, staff, price, room, food, cleanliness, are important to myself & my husband. River Cree hit the mark on all accounts…..we had an exceptional time!