Radisson Hotel Oakland Airport

“Fine, but not extravagant”

My wife and I stayed at the Radisson in July, 2024, on the night before we were due to fly back home after a great vacation. When we drove our rental car to the hotel, there is a security booth with a guy asking if we were staying there. When we said 'yes', he let us through without even verifying… more

My wife and I stayed at the Radisson in July, 2024, on the night before we were due to fly back home after a great vacation. When we drove our rental car to the hotel, there is a security booth with a guy asking if we were staying there. When we said 'yes', he let us through without even verifying our names or anything. Very strange, but several people told us the area near the airport was a high crime area, so I guess I understand why he was there. So just a very important note to not leave anything valuable in your car if you're parked there. The hotel itself was fine, and our room in the tower was okay, albeit very small. There wasn't much room to maneuver around the room. But most concerning was that the door to our room looked like someone tried to break into it, quite obviously chipped in places where something like a crowbar must have been used to try to gain access! Yikes... If you have a rental car, you can return it the night before your flight and the hotel shuttle can pick you up at the rental car center, or you can take the shuttle from the rental car center to the terminal and get picked up there. You need to call the hotel to get the shuttle to pick you up. Note that the hotel shuttle doesn't operate before 7am, so if you have an early flight out (as ours was, 6:30am), you'll need to get to the airport by some other method like Uber/Lyft. For an airport hotel, it's not the worst I've ever stayed at, but it's certainly not extravagant.

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