Business travelers beware!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 8/21/08
I stayed at this hotel for a week in April this year while on business and it was attrocious. Let's start with the microwave. I stopped off at a nearby grocery store and bought some tv dinners for the week to cook in the microwave. I found out the first night it wasn't working. The first clue was that the microwave looked like it was made in the late 70's or early 80's with it's archaic timer. I called the front desk to have it fixed and he brought up another dinosaur which worked, only you had to heat everything twice as long.
Secondly, the water temperature for the shower had two temperatures, hot or scalding. You could get it cold but only if it trickled out of the faucet. They came to fix it two hours after I called to have it looked at. This was time I could have been sleeping but I didn't because they said at the front desk that maintenance was on their way up. He said he got it working, but I checked after he left and nothing had changed. I eventually decided to start filling up the tub a couple hours before I went to bed so it would be cold in the morning. Convenient huh?
The last thing, I'll mention about the room was that the thermostat never dropped below 74 degrees in the room despite my attempts to get it cold. After the other, maintenance fiascos, I figured, why bother?
The final insult was that they charged me for internet access which I get free because of my diamond level status with Hilton Honors. They took it off after I pointed out the error.
You may be asking, why I didn't change rooms or hotels. First, I have to take lots of equipment on my trips so I would've had to repack everything to go to another room that wasn't guaranteed to be nicer. Secondly, my company booked the hotel and it wouldve been a hassel to find another one mid-week by the airport.
The one good thing about the hotel was its proximity to the airport. It was only about five minutes away but strangely it took the shuttle 45 minutes to pick me up after I called them to pick me up. This hotel stunk.