What a shame. As my high school counselor once told me, \""so much potential, but....\""  ;)\n\nThe Frank Lloyd Wright design is just beautiful. But in the same way you just don't need to sleep in a Ferrari, you don't need to stay here either. Come visit for lunch or dinner and check out the beautiful property, because the Frank & Albert's restaurant is great, and now that i mention it, the BREAKFAST there was fantastic. The kindest, smartest, nicest wait staff in the morning, and the food is just so creative and different, yet so tasty. But i digress.\n\nThe problem is that it's an old building. And with old buildings, come problems, even though it's been remodeled. The walls are thin, so you can hear your neighbors getting into arguments or getting it on with perfect clarity, neither one of which you really want to hear while on vacation. And you can hear the drunk people walking and yelling down the halls at 2am, 3am, and even 4am. I'm not making any of this up as I lived through it, all in 1 night. And the a/c units are loud, because again, it's an old building and that's just the way it is.\n\nThe rooms are a good size, around 500 square feet, and well designed and furnished. Which makes it even more of a shame that you can't really enjoy it.\n\nAnd if you're thinking about staying at the Ocatilla building, that's where I stayed. So you can't escape the riff raff by staying there either.\n\nAs another guest correctly points out, the Ocatilla side is not worth the extra dollars. That definitely over promises and under delivers. The pool is not exclusive to Ocatilla guests, as no one monitors the area, so you have people who pool hop who shouldn't be there. You can't find a server to save your life to get a drink at the pool either, so you have to walk out to get your own. \n\nThe Ocatilla concierge folks are extremely nice as can be, but their niceness doesn't walk the hallways and pick up trash or room service trays that sit out in the hallways all day long without being picked up. The \""free\"" breakfast is simply bagels, muffins, fruit, juice and coffee. Puts the con in continental breakfast, if you ask me.\n\nAnd one of the strangest parts is that if you drive yourself there (I rented a car from the airport), the parking is like Star Wars and is far far away. Even valet doesn't help because the Ocatilla building is in the back of the property with no parking near it, which doesn't seem like a big deal except when it's 108 degrees outside. AND they charge $12 extra for even self parking. That's bad, especially when the parking is so inconvenient.\n\nAnd the $28 resort fee on top of paying extra for the Ocatilla rooms? While having \""free\"" wifi by the pool was nice, i don't know what the other $18 difference is for since you still have to tip people and tip the maid. I've stayed at other resorts with \""resort fees\"" that include tips for everyone, so i get it and like it since i don't have to carry cash for deliveries and doormen and concierge, but i think the Biltmore doesn't quite realize that resort fees weren't designed to get more money from guests: it was originally intended to make our lives easier so that we don't have to worry about tipping and carrying money!\n\nSo i'll stop being a downer. The staff was extremely friendly, the rooms were well designed and super clean, and the property is beautiful. I stayed for 6 nights and ate at Frank & Alberts 5 times (1x dinner, 2x breakfast, 2x lunch). 4 out of 5 of the meals were fantastic, so that's a pretty great batting average for any restaurant. As mentioned in the beginning, go there to eat, hang out, get a drink, and enjoy the beautiful property. Heck, even stay there in a non-Ocatilla room for a few nights, but make sure your room is far far away from the elevator.