worst experience ever
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 7/28/07
We booked a two day romantic getaway for our second anniversary with the Fireside. Upon arrival we walked into our room expecting to relax and enjoy our two days alone together. Well this did not happen. The room was the dirtiest I have ever seen. There were dead bugs in the jacuzzi, water stains all over the mirrors, the bathroom had hair on the floor, in the sink, on the counters, in the tub, wrapped around the suction cups of the bath mat, there were no wash clothes or hand towels in the room and the toilet was not flushed nor did it work. Needless to say we called the front desk immeditaly. It took 30 minutes for someone to come clean the room and fix the toilet. We booked a smoking room, but not the ashes of the people who were there before us. The table tops were stained and covered in ashes from the previous guests. It was very clear that the only thing that had been cleaned was the bed. So finally the room is clean and we think we can start our romantic week end. We fill up the jacuzzi, light our candles and sit to enjoy....only to have the tub start making a horible noise, stops and we loose the lights. We once again call the front desk and recieve another visit from the maintance man who we are spending more time with than eachother. He fixes the jacuzzi and we decide to take a walk. When we come back about an hour later we fire up the jacuzzi again, only to experience the same thing, once more. We have finally had enough of this room, so at 10:30 pm the desk clerk moves us to another jacuzzi room which was non smoking. Here he gives us an ashtray and tells us to smoke in it because everyone does anyway. At this time my boyfriend tries for the third time to get ice from the one and only ice machine in the building, only to be told if he wants ice to go to the motel next door to get it!!!! My boyfriend returns to the room and we decide to take a risk and fire up the jacuzzi again. This time we are able to relax and hope our problems are over for the day....Guess not!!! At 2:00 am we have gone to bed and hope for the best,when there is a knock at the door. It is yet another desk clerk telling us this room was not supposed to be occupied. Well this was the final straw. We made it very clear to this man that we want to speak with management in the morning. When we demanded to see the manager we were told he had already left for the day, and would we like to leave him a message. So we leave a written message for him to contact us first thing in the morning Well at about 10:00 am we call for him only to be told that he is in a meeting. When the desk clerk asked if there was a problem and realized who we were, she instantly became rude with us. We had enough so we packed our bags to leave. Upon check out the desk clerk was rude, rolling her eyes, cutting us off and tried to place blame on other people. Of course management was still in a meeting and could not see us, but she would be happy to take another message. Well he recieved a letter much like you are reading here today. We contacted head office and filled them in on the lack of professionalism, and incompantance of the staff as well as to how dirty the hallways, rooms, and pool areawas. Clearly, we did not enjoy our visit. Head office gives the manager seven days to address the situation. The manager left us a voice mail at our home once, telling us he would contact us the following day.....well this did not happen. I wish you the best on your holiday....if you want it to be problem free, book some where else.