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    Courtyard by Marriott Rapid City

    3.7 (46 reviews)
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    Brenda B.

    Really happy with our stay here. We drove up from Denver to check out Mt Rushmore , Badlands , and other Black Hills attractions. Rapid City was our base camp and the Courtyard by Marriott did not disappoint. It was easy check in , affordable rates, and super clean and updated ! The lobby and very nicely decorated, pretty lighting , and the entire hotel smelled so nice !! Our room also matched the esthetics of the lobby , modern and tastefully designed and again very clean , big tv, comfy beds and good shower ! Microwave and fridge also present . They have laundry room , and a very impressive legit gym !! So nice !! Lobby as small bar . The have outside pool area with a long fire table , so you sit and enjoy the evening. plenty of free parking . I can't complain about anything. Great location among other big name hotels and a popular Indoor water park is also next door . I expected a bunch of kids running around , but nope , it was quiet and kind of sophisticated! Good vibes here :)

    View from our room.  I liked that our car was within view and key range so I could lock my car even in the room.
    Joe L.

    We came to stay at the hotel as a base for our visit to Mt Rushmore. We had just checked out of an Autograph Collection hotel in the Marriott family in Jackson WY so we knew we had to adjust our expectation coming to The Courtyard. However, we were very pleasantly surprised how updated the hotel was - The lobby, the hallway and our room. Everything was immaculate and clean. There was ample room for luggage for 2 adults. We a had nice view of hills in front of the hotel. It was late afternoon when we checked in and we opted for an early dinner at the hotel bistro. I ordered tomato soup and grilled cheese. It was simple but it was way better than anything we had in Yellowstone NP and Grand Teton NP (including the Yellowstone Hotel Dining Room and the Old Faithful In Dining Room)! The location is convenient. It was only 30 minutes to Mt Rushmore,ore and 10 minutes to the major chain stores and eateries to stock up for our road trip.

    Your Gold Elite membership... (pyrite at this hotel)
    Bill C.

    Stayed April 20-21 and I will say the price was good and the accommodations were modern, clean and new but... But I can get that anywhere... Marriott, Hilton, etc. why bother be loyal to Marriott? They reward you, that's why.... Or do they? The Gold Elite status note in the mobile app indicated that a complementary upgrade will be provided if one was available. I checked the availability of a better room in the app before I approached the desk and the app would let me book the better room. Proof that it was available that night. Upon approaching the front desk, I asked if the complementary upgrade was available. I indicated that the mobile app clearly showed availability of nicer rooms. The clerk said no complementary upgrade was available but I could pay for an upgrade. The clerk pointed out complementary upgrades at that Marriott were reserved for Platinum Elite. Then he launched into all sorts of excuses about not being a luxury hotel which had no bearing on the request or the Marriott policy of providing the upgrade if available clearly stated in the app. And we checked in after 10 pm. Pretty safe to say that there wouldn't be a random Platinum Elite member sauntering in without a reservation looking for an upgrade for a single nite stay that night. Marriott Gold Elite is worth iron pyrite (fools gold) at this hotel... something South Dakota is famous for apparently. Thankfully our other 4 hotels this trip were accommodating and followed Marriott policy and offers.

    Phil Y.

    Family vacation 2021...bringing the California variant of COVID-19 to your city. There is no pandemic here in this part of South Dakota. This was the first Marriott property that we stayed at where almost everyone including the Marriott employees did not wear masks. The only people wearing masks were my fellow Asians and at risk people. It was nice to finally take that mask off. The Courtyard was the perfect hotel for us to stay at for our adventures around the Rapid City area. It was in proximity to everything including Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, Sturgis, Deadwood, the Black Hills and Wall Drug. The Courtyard is a newer hotel. The hotel implies that they are in Rapid City, but, they are really in Box Elder, a couple miles away from Rapid City itself. As a Southern California resident, I didn't know better, nor did it matter. The room we were given was very roomy, yet nicely decorated. It had 2 queen beds as requested. The shower was a walk in shower. They had a shower dispenser of Paul Mitchell's Tea Tree shampoo, conditioner and soap in the shower. The room was very comfortable to stay in at night after a long day of exploring. Marriott Platinum and above member are given a choice of points or $10 per adult (up to two) for breakfast. We chose the breakfast from their Bistro Bar. The Bistro Bar does a very good job with breakfast. Their breakfast is cooked to order and is much better than the scrambled eggs, served at other hotels with breakfast buffets. I liked this hotel. Not because it gave me freedom from my mask, but because it was a very good property in a very good location. The staff was nice and helpful. They made me wish that I had stayed more than 2 nights here. I'm ready to go back now and visit more of the sights around the Rapid City area.

    Bug on the window in Room # 2
    Brianna J.

    Avoid this place at all cost! The management is terrible Jesse and Adam to be exact, they really need to some additional training on good customer service. I was once a manager in the hospitality industry and the way they handled this situation was so insensitive. Although I am only Silver Elite (will reach Gold this month), I held Marriott to such a high standard especially when it comes to how they treat their loyal customers. I arrived on business for a 1 night stay. I checked in to my room and was freshening up before attending a work event. When an employee barged in the room unannounced and once they saw the room was being occupied they frantically ran back into the hall. I stepped out to see what was going on as it startled me. The employee responded by saying "it won't happen again" and continued on. When I came back from my work event I noticed bugs in the tissue box in the bathroom and thought eh maybe its a one off. Then I noticed another bug on the ceiling shortly after, photos attached. I called down to the front desk to notify them and an employee came upstairs to take a look. When she saw the bug she said oh thats just a "whatever the name of the bug was (it was warm out)" it's just because of the weather, but I can move you. I've travelled the world to tropical and much warmer places, I've even done a 2 night Safari in the Masai Mara in Africa and never had a bug in my room. I moved to the second room and woke up to bugs on the window and this nasty stain on the window seal that looks like it could have been cleaned easily. The series of unfortunate events doesn't stop here unfortunately, after I arrived back home and showered I went to grab my reading glasses out of my bag and they were gone. I know they were stolen because I never put the glasses on while I was there. I wore contacts there and was tired from traveling and my event that I took a shower took the contacts out and went to sleep. Then awakened to more bugs and was eager to get out there quickly! I was there for 1 day with a small hardshell carry on bag and computer bag that was never opened after leaving the hotel until I arrived at home. When I called to inquire about the glasses the employee on the phone asked what brand they were and I replied Tom Ford. She put me on hold for maybe 20 seconds and came back and said they aren't here. I called a few times with the same outcome and eventually left a survey describing the incidents. Adam wrote back a generic statement saying they'd look into it and would share feedback to prevent this from happening again essentially. Adam did not bother to ask me what the glasses looked like, if they were in a case, what color they were... Nothing! So I reached out to customer service and Jesse contacted me with the same generic copy and pasted email again not even bothering to ask about details. My company has this property on our booking portal but I will be notifying them of this and recommending my co - workers stay somewhere else. I gave this property ample opportunity to remedy this issue (it happened 10/19/23), but since they have not I will be reaching out to their corporate and filing a police report (at the suggestion of Jesse).

    Spacious 2 queen with couch/sofa bed
    Joseph G.

    Stopped in here on our cross country road trip on our Mount Rushmore leg. Little did we know that it was the beginning of the Sturgis event and the place was slammed packed. Had to be 200 bikes in the parking lot. The staff handled it wonderfully. Went in about 11pm to check in and there was a long line. But they ran through it quickly. I even made a huge mistake when booking the room through mariott bonvoy app. I didn't hit confirm so when they went to look for my reservation it wasn't there. Completely my fault. With the huge crowd I just knew I was screwed. But they told me that had one double queen suite left and even price matched my app price for me and got me booked. So great customer service. The room itself was very spacious and huge. Very modern. I was a fan of the double tvs one for the two queens and the other For the pull out sofa bed. Also had a great patio setup. Conveniently located near foot establishments and within 25-30 min of all the major attractions including Mount Rushmore.

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    Rushmore, Devil's Tower, Crazy Horse, Deadwood, Sturgis and downtown Rapid City.

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    The rooms were clean and the beds were very comfortable. Very friendly staff at the front desk…read more Great free breakfast. I would recommend this hotel.

    Check-in was the only good thing about this hotel…read more Upon getting to our room, after a long day of travel, everyone needed to use the restroom, except there was no toilet paper or tissues in the bathroom. We booked a room with a fold out couch bed, as there were 5 of us staying, and nowhere in the room was there any bedding for us to make up the couch bed. I called down to the front desk to request the toilet paper, tissues, and bedding, and it took 15 minutes for a very harassed looking hotel maid to bring it to us, but no pillows for the extra bed, while one of our party waited in the bathroom for toilet paper. When it was finally my turn to use the restroom, I noticed dirty footprints on the floor, and hair that wasn't anyone's in our party all over the floor. Additionally, there were green toothpaste splatters all over the mirror, and white globs of toothpaste all over the tissue holder. But the bathroom wasn't the worst part of our stay. The carpets were stained, and hadn't been vacuumed before our stay. My son found a used q-tip on the floor by the bed, as well as fast food containers half shoved under the dresser. The room smelled awful, and the thermostat was set for 62, which, for a cold rainy day was too cold for us, but when we turned the heat on to warm it up a bit, a new, and even worse smell entered the room. The duvet on my kids' bed was either stained, or had never been washed, with a large, dark brown spot at the top. We turned the duvet so the dark spot was at the bottom, because we didn't want to wait an indeterminate amount of time after the kids' bedtime for housekeeping to bring up a new duvet. When we pulled the curtains closed, there was a large, dark stained spot of what looked to be exploded chocolate ice cream all over the curtain. When we moved the coffee table out of the way to make the sofa bed, it was sticky, with visible spots that hadn't been cleaned off. The seal for the refrigerator, which we needed for my son's medication, was falling off, and my other son was able to fix it, so at least we could keep my son's medication cold. Thankfully, none of us needed to shower, because there was someone else's hair still covering the drain, and black footprints inside the bottom of the shower. Additionally, housekeeping left only one bar of soap, so I'm glad we didn't need a shower, as we would have had to use the same bar of soap on our bodies and our hands. And, when I washed my face, the wash cloth had an old bloodstain on it. Additionally, the hotel is in the process of being remodeled, but there was a huge drywall patch on the wall that hadn't been painted, the carpeting in our room hadn't been finished appropriately and had raw edges up against all the walls, and the chairs and tables in the room were stained and terrible looking. We had to buy a case of water at Target after our dinner, because there were no cups in the room, and we didn't trust that the plumbing had received any better care than the rest of the hotel, and we felt uncomfortable drinking it. This morning, when we went down for breakfast, there was a paltry selection, and only a small dribble of milk in the lone milk jug in the refrigerator. We ended up deciding to go to the restaurant just in front of the hotel for breakfast before our son's swim meet this morning, rather than wait to see if staff would restock the breakfast area. On our way out, a staff member, and what looked to be her daughter, were carrying in another milk jug, a couple bottles of International Delight coffee creamer, and a box of granola bars that very obviously came from the Sam's Club not too far away. The pool area looked nice, but the hot tub had signs laying on the side of it that said "do not enter". We decided not to swim, as we had been up since 4am and it was 8pm, so I can't tell you if the water was decent. It didn't smell heavily chlorinated, at least. We are heading home today, after my son's swim meet is finished, and every single piece of clothing and bedding we brought into the room is going STRAIGHT into the laundry, because it all smells absolutely awful, thanks to this terrible hotel that had the audacity to charge almost $200 for a one night stay!

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