Motel 6 Quality, Ritz Prices
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 1/21/08
This hotel room was booked through my wife's employer for a company holiday event.
We supposedly got a discount rate as part of a group purchase. I paid WAYYYY too much for what we received.
I will try too be brief;
1) Requested 1 King Bed. Got 2 Queen beds.
2) Phone did not work upon arrival. It was not plugged in.
3) I forgot to pack a black belt for my suit. The Hotel gift shop had a much larger size than I needed. I had to get the clerk off her cell phone to help me find it. The belts were behind the sweatshirts.
4) The coffee maker did not work at all. It did not work for prior guest, either. I know this because it was still full of water when I first tried to use it.
5) Room service breakfast was very low quality. McDonalds is better.
6) I requested a free pot of coffee to make up for broken coffee maker. This took 5 phone calls and 40 minutes to arrive. Room service tried to charge me for coffee after front desk agreed it should be free. Front Desk credited entire breakfast bill after all of our trouble.
7) Shower handle fell off. Luckily, it did not land on my wife's toe.
8) Wanted to bring friends to the hotel bar at 11PM on Saturday night. The 'Lounge' closes at 10PM.
9) Hotel was hard to find. I live in So Cal and visit Long Beach often.
10) We did not know about free shuttle on arrival. We asked front desk to call us a taxi to go to the Aquarium of the Pacific. They NEVER mentioned the shuttle. We found out about the shuttle after arrival at the aquarium.
11) Our view was of the Bridge, not the Queen Mary.
This hotel has a prime piece of Southern California Oceanfront Real Estate, nothing more.
Coast Long Beach Hotel claims to be a 'Resort'. This is a joke. Room and Service quality rank it at Motel 6 or Super 8 level. It would be unacceptable for a Best Western or Travelodge. The cost should be 50% to 70% lower than what I paid.
Stay on the queen Mary for less or Downtown with better service.