Get nicked and dimed to death
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 7/7/10
This hotel is atrocious and I would advise anybody against staying here unless this is an all expense paid business trip, and even then, there are much better places to stay right across the street. Upon checking in, be prepared to get greeted with a $11.95 parking fee.. because no other hotels in the area charge for parking in vast expanse of nothing called Ontario (there is an open field right next to the hotel, ironic).. tip, save your money, use your imagination and park across the street or just save yourself from hell and book your stay there instead. They will not waive the parking charge for any reason even if there is no convention going on and parking is so widely available, you wonder why they want your money so bad. Upon entering the room, you are greeted with a drab, dark, stale yellow tinted room and a friendly $9.95 charge for 24 hour period internet use. Don't have a computer? Not to worry the "business" center provides a computer for minimum 3.95 charge and 50 cents per minute and 50 cents to print in b/w and dollar+ for color. There is no advertised mini fridge, old shower fixtures, no fan in the bathroom, and the absolute most ridiculously annoying thing, they are too cheap to provide a single microwave for the vast number of rooms they have. Not a single microwave, albeit they would probably charge you 50 cents by 15 sec intervals if they could. So enjoy your cold leftovers. I almost forgot there are loud trains that frequent the motel and are heard even on the far front side of the motel. Yes I do mean motel, they often charge for amenities hotels do not. So bring your earplugs. And we havent even got to the bread and butter of the hotel, the service.
The housekeeping service apparently does not knock or very loudly before opening the door and just leaves without asking if you require service. Why even open the door? So I wait until 12:30pm until I decide I need new toiletries, I ask the housekeeping lady with the cart 10 feet down the hall for new towels. "No, thats not my area"
Needless to say it took 2 phone calls to the front desk and 30+ minutes to get new towels. On the day of checkout they slip a receipt under my door charging me for parking that I explicitly told them I would not use. Very slick. So I go up to the front desk to some young lady who tries to convince me that I used the parking and that it will automatically charge if I slide my card at the gate. I tell her I explicitly told them I will not comply with their ridiculous parking charges upon check in and now you are trying to convince me that I used the parking? This young lady had the audacity to laugh at a disgruntled customer... I had to demand the manager and of course she did nothing and just apologized.
Needless to say, stay far, far away from this place. You are looking at a minimum 22 dollars PER DAY on top of your original reservation and places across the street offer parking, internet AND breakfast.... FREE? You might start to think the Marriott was a theme park of some sorts..