A La Quinta Holiday

Staying at La Quinta for Thanksgiving. Unable to get a reservation for Thanksgiving dinner at their small restaurant. Hotel did their best for the majority of their guests by decorating and serving a continuous Thanksgiving meal from about noon to 6PM in their ballroom. Very large room. Decorations were fine. The food was obviously cooked much earlier and heated until served. Deserts were not very good. Lots of people coming and going. Wait staff were doing their best to try to make the occasion special. I do not fault the hotel. On the contrary. I appreciate that they did their best not to turn anyone away from the festive meal. I wish the dinner had actually lasted through the evening but 6PM was the cut off. Not sure I understand having dinner at noon.

The room was too big to be warm and intimate and it did not seem like there were many people there. The food was just okay. Lots of fillers for what it cost per person.

Brunch was over $100 per person. Advertised at Morgan's restaurant, when arrived said at the grill, then lead you down the way to a large conference room. Chairs were plastic fold-ups. Self serve buffet of lukewarm dry food. In general I really like La Quinta Resort but this was a complete rip-off.

We chose to dine at the latest hour so that there would be a minimum of people, noise and general chaos! There were 10 in our party and we ALL thought the food and service was excellent and the food was much better than we expected with such a large number of people of people being served. All in all the whole event was very nice.

This was a huge Thanksgiving dinner buffet. It was not as grand as I remember it from years past. The selection was mediocre but the price was very high. Nice, but not really great.