Better service at a Super 8
Beautiful location, lovely accommodations, crap service. My fiance and I booked the wedding package, expecting from our conversations with the wedding planner and the internet description a fantastic experience. The room was great, spa services phenomenal. However, in all other aspects customer service was appalling, absolutely not worth the 5-star price. We sent our ceremony clothes to the laundry the day before to be pressed, and didn't check that it had been done properly (assuming they would know how to use an iron). 30 min before the ceremony, my husband to be put on his trousers and found, not a single crease at the front and back as expected, but about 6 different creases running up and down the legs, none on centre, as if they had been ironed by a troop of ADHD monkeys. Panicked, we sent them back, called down to our families, JOP and photographer to tell them we'd be late. My dress was creased too, but no worse than after it had come out of the car after a 5 day camping trip. They brought the pants back 45 mins later, we had the ceremony on the beach, fine. The wedding package offers the wedding cake with the "romantic turndown" - that night, no cake! Whatever, we were tired, we'd fix it tomorrow. Next day, told them of the problem, after much checking to make sure we weren't lying and trying to score 2 cakes, they promised to bring it up that night. Sure enough, it was on the table. Great! No plates or cutlery. Is it more romantic to eat it with your hands? Call down, they brought up forks and plates. No apologies, no offer to make it up. We complained to the 16-year olds at the desk, talked with some kind of manager, but the wedding planner we never saw again after that initial meeting - she was conveniently out of the office. We suggested they comp our extra night's stay to amend nearly ruining our wedding. They don't do that, but offered to send us something special in the mail. 8 weeks later, we got a CD of pan pipe music. You know, the sort you find in the $1.99 bin at HMV? I guess that made it all ok.