Staff is a Disgrace
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 3/16/07
Had my daughter's wedding here. We had a great time with family and friends, and the hotel is beautiful, but the business end with the Doubletree was a nightmare. Their expert recommendations for the amount of food at the cocktail hour were way off. After being told it was plenty of shrimp, and plenty of cheese for fifty people, the food was gone in ten minutes, before the wedding party even got there. Half the people had no shrimp or cheese at all, and they would not refill anything. Also, one of the entrees, the chicken, was supposed to be stuffed with prosciutto and mozzarella, but was filled with spinach, a much cheaper recipe. Coffee time?? The cups were there, but never filled. This is the first wedding I've ever been to, where they never served coffee to anyone. We got a few hundred dollars back for the coffee and chicken, but they adamantly refused to compensate us for the embarrassment of the cocktail hour. After admitting the mistakes, the GM then changed his story, lying, and saying the ham and cheese were minced into the chicken, and WE should have asked for the coffee. Waitressing was lousy, the ceremony was very poorly planned, and their shuttle was twenty minutes late to the ceremony, (they actually tried to blame us for returning late). I've been treated much better at lesser quality hotels, whenever there was a problem. The GM's hardball tactics and refusal to compensate us for the cocktail hour were cheap and very low class, and very unusual for a supposed fine resort. The Doubletree Grand Key Resort, is a Double Grand disgrace.