Visitors to an east-end Toronto hotel — which has doubled as a refugee camp all summer — have turned in droves to two well-read travel websites to warn others not to stay there.
A series of pointed reviews on TripAdvisor and Expedia from those who stayed at the Radisson Toronto East hotel as recently as this past week advise others that some 400 refugees from Africa are occupying all but two floors of the hotel and they were not informed of the situation before booking.
One traveller from Los Angeles, who stayed there during a business trip a week ago, calls the place an “absolute zoo.”
Others described the hotel as “dangerous,” dirty and noisy — and that the lobby is a “madhouse,” full of loitering refugees.
A visitor from Montreal said kids were “skateboarding in the lobby” and the staff didn’t seem to care.
“My daughter kept getting harassed by full-grown men (refugees),” the Montrealer wrote on TripAdvisor.
The visitor from L.A. said he was “shocked and horrified at the nightmare situation” in the lobby.
“Huge crowds of people, children spitting, yelling, jumping on top of each other, and to make things even worse, one of them stole my phone and I had to chase them to get them to return it,” the traveller wrote.
“I will never return… I would rather have slept in our car.”
Calls to the hotel Saturday yielded little information other than the cost to stay there in a standard room with a king bed next weekend — $159 per night.
The front desk clerk repeatedly refused to give any information on the refugees except to acknowledge that there are guests staying in the hotel “long-term.”
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