To Foreigners - Hotel awful
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 7/2/09
Am a foreigner. I had been to the Sea Crown hotel and the hotel service is awful.
Though I made an advance booking in Dhaka I had to wait for thirty minutes before check in my room. While I was waiting in front of the room watching the cleaner made the room I was shocked to see him wash used glasses in the room with only tap water from the bathroom. Next, the curtains were all stained and dirty. The blanket they had given to me had some insect eggs in it.
I spend a sleepless night ,till 02:00 a.m the hotel was doing maintenance work using drilling machine and there was constant hammering. The other guests were making so much noise and some even shamelessly put some chairs infront of my room and were talking loudly. The Hotel management seems to be indiffrent with this practice. There is no rules or regulation for guests, everything seems to be allowed.
What's more I was scared when I received calls from the telephone in my room from oher guests in the hotel. I understand that any guest can call any other guests in the same hotel by just dialling the room number. I don't understand Bangla, so I could not understand what the caller wanted, but I guess some girls wanted to make friend with me.Though the local people are not agressive, as a foreigner I was feeling very unsecure in that hotel. From my point of view, that was a violation of my privacy which I did not appreciate at all. The Hotel should take care about these things.
The service in the restaurant hotel is bad.I had to wait for more than 1hour before getting food as simple as an omelette.
I noticed that all local people seemed to be happy and satisfied with the hotel service. I respect other people way of living. So once again, let me make this clear that this message is intended for foreigners.
I would not recommend the Sea Crown Hotel to any other foreigner. Morever, the agent for the hotel situated in Dhaka showed me some pictures of the inside of the hotel, e.g rooms and restaurant.However, the pictures do not correspond to the actual hotel. So don't let people fool you.