Gæstebruger
31. januar 2023
This hotel was a disaster - mostly, I suspect, because of corporate/ownership decisions and not on-site staff. When we arrived we had a large coupon for a reduction of our room rate. The desk clerk shrugged and said he didn’t know anything about and we had to call Marriott customer service to get it ironed out. When we checked out, more knowledgeable staff recognized the coupon and applied it appropriately. In our room, the bathroom sink was seriously clogged and the refrigerator was so loud we had to pull it out and unplug it overnight. To the credit of the staff there, when we brought it to someone’s attention a maintenance staff member appeared at our door within 10 minutes and fixed the problems. When we checked in we were told that we had the option of housekeeping every three days or once a week, but housekeeping’s arrivals were erratic and often ill-timed; the hard part of the pandemic’s over, folks, it’s time to start serving your customers again. The hotel had new (Maytag) washers and dryers that had a hard time reading debit cards; the second time we did laundry we went through three machines before we found one that worked and because the machines were new – no doubt a corporate decision - hotel staff didn’t know any more about them than the instructions on the machine (one staff member was by our side and witnessed the problem). There’s a phone in the laundry room to call the front desk for help but it didn’t work. Of course not. We were there for five days before we saw a tiny piece of paper – maybe 2”x3” - on the kitchen table, which we didn’t use, telling us we could leave our used towels and trash bags outside our door; they weren’t picked up in a timely manner even though our floor was crawling with staff all day. Self-serve housekeeping is not a selling point. There also were structural problems within our room. The bathroom sink is poorly designed, with too much counter space between where you stand and the actual sink, and as a result you have to bend over pretty far to get to the sink. We’ve never encountered a sink like that. The shower was ridiculous: the right side shower door doesn’t open and the controls are mid-shower, and as a result, you have to get partway into the tub and get wet, with water too hot or too cold, to set the temperature. The liquid soap was disgusting – a corporate choice, no doubt. Worse, the toilet and shower are in one room, behind a door, and on the other side of that door is the bathroom sink – but there’s no door between the sink area and the bed area, which means that unless you’re staying there by yourself, when one person is up, the other is awakened. It’s just poor, foolish design that saved the cost of a door at the expense of customers’ comfort and sleep. It’s unfortunate that so many of these problems are corporate-driven because the hotel staff, with the exception of the desk clerk who didn’t know about the coupon and didn’t care to investigate it, was excellent: fri
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