My partner and I visited Opryland for 3 days to attend the Christmas events they had. Our stay started with being assigned a room that didn’t not include a single request such as a king bed and a view. I got over that and was just happy to be there. However once we got to our room there was a big yellow puddle in the middle of our room. We were then transferred to a different, again, did not have any of my room requests. Oh well. Everything was going great till the second night when my partner, which happens to be a dark skinned man, is walking around the hotel. He is stopped by security and asked to show his room key. He shows both his room key and driver License. He was let go. Then he was stopped THREE MORE TIMES. And this time the security guard did not believe he was staying there even after he showed room key and even used it to unlock a door,to show it was valid, he even offered to take officer up the room to prove he was staying here.
ONE AND A HALF HOURS LATER, after keeping my partner in place and not letting him come back to his room, I, a white woman was able to talk to security and prove we were staying there. They didn’t hesitate to let him go then..
All and all in was a terrible experience and we will not be back. My partner was racially profiled and there is absolutely no reason a man should be kept from going to his hotel room when he has a working room key and is documented as a guest. I thought Opryland was better than that but I guess not.