Sheraton was a true disappointment.
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 8/6/08
My family stays in hotels 3-5 times a year. We thought that we had become pretty good about our selection process: visit the hotel website, check room layouts and amenities, 4 stars minimum, always read customers comments, talk to friends. We did it all this time.
The website was great, the rooms looked very nice, the pool looked enticing. The first thing to go in my bag was my bathing suit. I could just see myself doing a couple of laps and relaxing. Compared to other hotels similarly priced, the amenities looked better.
On arrival we found out that the hotel is under renovation. The pool in the website is a project in progress, there is no pool. Entrance to the reception is via a side entrance into a room haphazardly set up to “welcome” you. Furniture panels are being stored in the elevator lobby, construction starts promptly at 8:30 AM, all rooms overlook the parking and the warm bottle of water awaiting you in the room, in this very hot summer day, has a $4.00 tag price!!!
The rooms looked like they did on the website. However, there was no regular coffee, only decaffeinated. Calls to the front desk went unanswered. My daughter forgot her toothbrush … don’t forget yours.
I’m sure that once the renovation is done this hotel will look quite nicely. It is a hotel for business people not families.
The most disturbing thing about the situation was that everyone understood my frustration but no one could do anything about it. They said the website did say that the hotel was under renovation. Three days later, it still does not say that the hotel is under renovation and the price does not reflect the poor physical and customer service conditions offered by the hotel.