Curry Village (Seasonal Closu

There is an incredibly rude and hostile staff member at the Bike/Raft rentals. She never gave us her name (because she never deigned to speak to us), so I'm going to give you a physical descriptor so others can avoid her, or if you've had a similar experience with this person, I encourage you to leave reviews as well so Yosemite can reconsider having her as a staff member: she appears to be a light-skinned Black woman in her 20s, with locs that are about shoulder-length. She wears dark sunglasses most of the time, and she is overweight, maybe about 5'4 or 5'5. We had several encounters with her both together and separately, and each time she was extremely rude to us for no apparent reason. In one instance, I approached the bike rental and waited politely for her to finish a conversation with a colleague. She never once acknowledged me except to yell at me "EMPLOYEES ONLY" at which point it was her colleague who talked to me and answered my question. She continued to ignore me, not making any eye contact and just standing there while her colleague spoke with me. It was awkward and off-putting, but I put it out of my mind. But then it became a sustained pattern of behavior. In one instance, my cousin went to the bike pick up area to ask bike rental questions. The rude staff member in question rolled her eyes at my cousin and huffed and puffed under her breath, unprovoked, at my cousin's polite question. She again did not try to answer or talk with my cousin; instead another staff member tried to answer my cousin's questions but also said she wasn't usual bike staff so she didn't know. The rude staff member was there the whole time, and never tried to answer my cousin's questions, even though the rude staff member IS a member of bike rentals because I saw her manning the rentals EVERY DAY. We had a few more encounters with this staff member and she NEVER directly made eye contact with us or spoke to us directly. She would ignore us outright and the only time ever directly spoke to us was to yell at us for trying to ask questions (god forbid I ask a staff member a question). I did notice she answered questions politely and joked around with a group of White guests. I don't know if she has something against Asian folks but I honestly can't figure out why else she would have such an automatic and sustained hostile attitude towards us except for that. If she feels annoyed by doing her customer service job, if polite questions annoy her, she should reconsider her job and go be a ranger on an isolated station or something, and save the rest of us from having to interact with her.

We visited as a family of 4 in August wanting to be based on the park so for us this was all about location which it 100% delivers on, straight onto the valley loop and the mist trail which we did on our 2 early morning 6am hikes whilst there. Outside of that it was exactly as average as we expected. The tents were too hot, the beds were too creaky, the bathrooms were a walk away, showers needed a queue, restaurants were rammed, WiFi was limited and slow and there was no escape from the heat. We emerged from the experience exhausted and battered, covered in dust but exactly what we expected. The dining hall is adequate and good value, coffee shop on site was decent and the grocery store slightly over-priced but not ridiculous (apart from the $50 souvenir water carriers - steep!) We used the pool for an hour late afternoon our second day (closed due to an issue on day 1) and we also found that really clean and well manned. It is busy in the afternoon but as you’d expect but your close to the river and cathedral beach if you want more space to spread out. Why not very good? Because that would involve more than we expected, or at the very least a price tag that made this seem like value. If you take it for what it is - a budget base, in an amazing location, you’ll do okay,

We stayed in the tent cabin which we felt were a reasonable value for exploring the park. Beds were reasonably comfortable, bathrooms were clean and the shared showers even had shampoo/soap. The only downside was it was INCREDIBLY hot inside the tent until after the sun went down. If I went again in July I would pack a fan. We wanted to go to bed early to get on the trail at sunrise and it was difficult to fall asleep. Can't beat the location, right by the Mist Trail parking area.