Worst hotel experience ever.
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 9/11/08
I am at the end of day 9 of an 11 day trip with several other people and wanted to relax and unwind. We knew going in that this place had bad reviews but someone at the hotel said that now the hotel was under new management and they were trying to make up for their bad ratings. Well, they are failing. The television in my room is not working. Ok, change that, I finally got someone to come to my room, jiggle the wire and now it kinda works. The entire down stairs smells like someone urinated in a jar of peanut butter, used it for an ashtray, stuck it in a microwave for 10 minutes, and dumped the contents in the hallway. One of my tour members complained because the heat was on full blast and the room was like an oven. The hotel maintenance guy was pulled from the karaoke lounge, went to the room, told the guest that the heat was just fine. My friend, understandably, got upset and had a few words. The maintenance guy proceeds to tell the tour manager that the guest was being rude to him. Well, hell, my TV just went out again... To get it to work, I have to pull it out to the point that I am worried that it may fall out of the entertainment center. And another thing, I was downstairs waiting for a friend. The girl at the front desk, who I originally assumed to be friendly, kept questioning why I was down there. She thought I was waiting for her. I explained that I was fine. She ignored this and said, "You'll have to be patient, I can't be everywhere at once". Huh? I explained again that I was waiting for my friends to play Scrabble. "Well, they're not down here." So, I went back to my room to see if I could find any of my Scrabble buddies and then went back downstairs. I met the same employee in the stairway who said, "What do you need." "NOTHING!!!" It's as if she was saying, "Why are you out of your room?" Well, my Scrabble friends decided to go to bed because the lobby stinks and the hot tub was empty. Oh, the pool/hottub area smells even worse than the lobby. I am going to have a discussion with my tour director about getting at least a partial refund. Instead of relaxing in front of the TV before I go to sleep, I am pissed off at the rudeness and squallor of this rathole of a hotel. This is hands down the worst place I have ever stayed. GOOD LUCK ON IMPROVING YOUR RATINGS! I can't wait to get out of here. If It wasn't almost midnight and I was on a bus tour, I'd try to go to the Holiday Inn.