
Pamela of Cypress, TX on Dec. 22, 2006
My sister, Jannette, booked my room for 6 days from November 21 - 26, 2006. She lives in a small town near Bentonville, Arkansas.
The Hotel gave her a rate of $53.00 a night, with my AARP discount. The hotel management said my room came with a free breakfast.
On the 20th, I called to confirm the reservations. The manager, Susan answered the phone with "What do you want?". I thought I had the wrong number.
So I ask for confirmation of the hotel number and our room. She tried to raise the rate to $144.00 a night. But my sister, remembering whom she spoke with, made sure I had the room rate agreed upon and the dates we asked for on the 21st.
When I got to our room, at midnight of the 21st, we found a dead roach floating in the ice bucket filled with scum water. I notified the front desk, Bill, who sent a maintenance man with a plastic bag to place in the ice bucket. I was dealing with a sick child so I washed the bucket out myself and lined the bucket until morning. We were exhausted from driving twelve hours.
The next day, I complained again. Still nothing was done.
After ordering our "free" breakfasts we discovered they were charging us $13.99.
The front desk explained the free full breakfast was for Honors customers, butt the continental breakfast was free.
Well, the next morning, we ordered the continental breakfast, but now the front desk claims that free breakfast was $4.89 on Saturday mornings. I was livid and refused to sign the check.
On Sunday, I asked to settle our bill, my sister and I wanted to half the bill. The front desk claimed, the hotel couldn't do that; I would have to wait until 7 am Monday to check out. I had a sick child and needed to keep his doctor's appointment in Houston by 3:30 pm.
When we got up Monday at 5:30 am to leave, the hotel had billed my sister's credit card and refused to reimburse her one half as they claimed they couldn't do credits to a room.
When I got home, I discovered they had charged my credit card also.
I called the guest relations department and was stonewalled. They sent computer generated e-mails with no resolution. I emailed their media department and got a survey asking for my comments on my stay and then another generated email. I had asked for restitution for the week I spent arguing with the hotel management to resolve their lies and neglect.
There was no customer service. They answer was to help call the Bentonville hotel and the manager answered with, We don't know what you are talking about?
Great job of resolving complaints. I have called the health department, a local TV station and the state comptroller.