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I am not covering this stay in great detail. One issue was so serious that everything else I might have said would be irrelevant. We stayed in a Grand Suite. It is 3:00 pm. We are dipped sitting in the lobby waiting. Hotel Ivy’s contract said that check-in is at 3:00 pm. Honoring contracts is apparently not the Marriott way. We were shown to our room at 5:20 pm. While we were waiting, they lied to us. They told us the guest occupying our suite had a 4:00 pm check-out. But funny thing, their website said they had three Suites available. All of them were occupied until 4:00 pm? Why would they do that if they had promised us that the room would be available at 3:00 pm? Let’s discuss this late check-in further. When we rented the room, Marriott sent an email summarizing our contractual agreement. That summary covered, the room rate, the days of stay, and the hours during which we had rented the room—in other words a check-in time and a check-out time. Between that check-in time and check-out time, we were entitled to occupy the room. Unbeknownst to us, Marriott also rented the same room to someone else for a part of the same time that we were entitled to the room. So Marriott rented the room to two different guests, and collected money from both of those guests for the same time. I am now long retired. But my trade when I was working was consumer protection law. The law has a term for when somebody sells a hotel room to two people at the same time and collects money from both of them. It is a harsh word. It begins with “F,” but is not four letters. The word is fraud. I find it very unpleasant when a business defrauds me. It is especially bad when I discover that fraud is a standard business practice. We were expressly told that the hotel has conflicting “policies.” (Policies is the word they use for contractual obligations.) On the one hand, if you rent the room through American Express, your contract says that you are entitled to occupy your room until 4:00 pm. But at the same time, they rent the exact same room to another customer, and make a contract that entitles the second customer to occupy the room at 3:00 pm. Obviously, they cannot honor both contracts, and they know that when they make the contracts. But that is not Marriott’s problem. That is the customer’s problem. Marriott relies on it being too much effort for customers to seek redress for the fraud. They elect to honor the contract of the customer who booked through American Express, and breach the contract with the second customer. This is Marriott’s standard business practice. Marriott has a standard business practice to cheat customers.

This is a beautiful hotel. All staff that I interacted with was very pleasant, helpful and friendly. Room and bathroom were very large and clean. Love the heavenly beds !!! We had wine in the bar one evening. The bartenders were busy, but still friendly and helpful. There is a parking ramp for the hotel and shopping mall. And, there is an underground tunnel from the hotel to the Galleria mall. So, we did not have to go out in the freezing weather! Would definitely stay again

Clean, quiet, with underground parking, no toothbrush slippers, parking is charged extra for the day, the second floor of the hotel is directly connected to the mall of america, convenient, the swimming pool is small, and the car can be parked until 5 pm after check-out.

Very nice hotel and had the perfect location for a Timberwolves game. Could have probably booked a cheaper hotel that was still connected by a skywalk but didn’t look into it well enough. Quite expensive.

Hotel environment is good, safety factor is good, swipe everywhere, breakfast is not bad

Thank you W Mineapolis to upgrade our the room to the corner room. Huge bathroom btw. It was a very nice stay for my first time traveling to Mineapolis. Complimentary breakfast was very efficent and delivered to room on time. Front desk staff were very lovely with great smile. They helped us booked for the steakhouse on site called Manny's. Great food! We are light eaters and ordered a porterhouse with 2 sides. It was more than enough food. Then, the dessert in the house was amazing. Wish we left some roon for that. We asked for house keeping and it was done in a good manner. Remember to visit the rooftop of the Foshay building for the history and the panoramic view of the whole city. W Mineapolis did everything right!