IRH Pigeon Forge — Local services in Pigeon Forge

If you work at Dollywood as an entertainer, DO NOT LIVE AT IRH. Find some connections with people in your cast or on park in general. Hopefully after this year, they’ll stop recommending people to live at IRH. Sadly, it’s most of our only options because this living situation is a housing monopoly for IRH. Unless you want to spend more than twice the money to live in a hotel.

I’ll start with the fact that when we moved in we were told that Entertainment only had 2 people to a room PER THEIR POLICY. Great news to hear as you’re moving in! I am more than halfway through my contract now (24 days left, 44 days completed) and yesterday they gave me 25 hours to pack up my stuff and consolidate to a new room. Ridiculous. They sent the email at 9:21pm and we had to be moved into our new room by 10pm the next day. I had to work 2:30-8 that day, so I had to wake up at 8am to pack and move stuff until work. Then I had to finish moving after work. When a friend of mine questioned Shyann, the assistant manager, who was working the front desk about it, she told him that he was lucky to be receiving an extra hour’s notice because our lease says they only have to give us 24 hours. He called her petty for that and she THREATENED TO KICK HIM OUT. Just because your policy says you only have to give 24 hours, doesn’t mean that you have to strictly abide by it. I know good and well that people are not moving in the very second we left. They had no common courtesy or grace.

Their reasoning for why we needed to move was that they had incoming Dollywood residents… at the end of the christmas season… aka the off season is next. This is just speculation, but I don’t believe this. I think that IRH is hiding something else going on. That’s why they needed up rapidly out of our rooms.

Since we were moving into someone else’s room, that meant we just had to take what they gave us. We got the two tops bunks. I am a plus size man…this top bunk is not going to work for me. Not to mention the structure of the bunk bed very easily shakes if you move too much on it. It takes me about 5 minutes to get up or down from my bed. This is a personal problem, but I believe is worth mentioning.

Also think it’s worth mentioning that there are scuffs and spackle places on almost every wall. They give everything a half-hearted try.

Overall, an absolutely horrible experience and I cannot wait for it to be over. If I’m asked back to Dollywood, this will greatly impact my decision. I’d have to live here for a full year and sign a lease to come back for another season here. Dollywood itself is one of the best jobs I have ever had. The housing situation if you’re just here for one season though…is pitiful, disrespectful, and unprofessional.

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Worst management in the whole world. Place looks like prison and all the time you feel like a slave. Never again!

Update to your response:

Thank you for your reply, though it’s fascinating how quickly you jump to assumptions about eviction and illegal activities—especially when none of that was mentioned in my review. It speaks volumes about how you view and treat your residents. Instead of addressing legitimate concerns about poor management and deplorable living conditions, you chose to deflect with baseless accusations. I stand by my review and sincerely hope future residents enjoy the ‘prison chic’ experience you seem...

I want to know why u charge each person in the room 500 dollars. So for each room u all get 2000 dollars. It's a place that is pretty however charging 500 dollars for a barracks room. Is not right. How u expect anyone coming here to work to live. Especially paying 500 dollars for. Nothing more than a military barracks or prison. I could understand 200 250. Maybe. But come on you all are really taking advantage of these people thinking they are getting ahead. Sad. Greed I guess? I await your response. Of ur perfect explanation. Which still will be...