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margaret southard
Oct 25, 2019
HOTEL FROM HELL
PROBLEM. I NEEDED TO CHANGE MY TWO DAY RESERVATION FROM ONE WEEKEND TO THE PRECEDING WEEKEND. IT WAS A NON-REFUNDABLE B00KING BUT I WAS NOT CANCELING THE B00KING JUST MOVING UP ONE WEEK.
• RESERVATIONS
o This hotel does not recognize its self to be part of the Best Western establishment
o When I called the 800 number to change my reservations to one week earlier than what I had booked for -since I had booked it through the Best Western web site - I was told to call the hotel
The hotel told me that since I had booked my reservation through a 3rd party I could not change the reservation.
• What ???
• According to this hotel, Best Western is a 3rd party to the hotel
1. I wonder how many booking they would get if they did not have the Best Western affiliation.
• So, after two days of trying to work through the hotel – because the General Manager was not there- I called the Best Western 8oo reservations again.
o I was told later that the General Manager stays away for months at a time.
Since the desk clerks do not have the authority to change reservations, do they expect a customer to wait until the GM decides to return ???
• It took the intervention of the Best Western customer service 1 ½ days to get the hotel to recognize that this was not a cancellation of booking but a change in dates.
o Then I was told that if I did not keep the “new / earlier” reservation the hotel would not cancel the older reservation because they were afraid, I might stay at a different hotel.
They definitely have that correct. I, nor any of my family or friends, will ever stay at this hotel.
• It basically took 4 days to change a reservation to one week earlier than originally booked.
• SERVICE
o We were in Mount Pleasant to work on a project. We were working on this when Housekeeping came by Saturday afternoon. We said we were fine, so they left.
o We went out to dinner, came back at 8pm and there were no towels in the room and the beds were not made.
We got up Sunday. Since there were zero / zilch towels in the room, we washed our faces, got into the car and drove back to Houston.
I got a call from the Mount Pleasant Best Western hotel telling me I was being charged $30.00 for missing towels.
• Needless to say, I thought that was ridiculous !! The entire Mount Pleasant Best Western is a disaster.
• I told the desk clerk that we had no towels or service after Saturday afternoon.
• She was able to verify that there was no service to the room Saturday, even after we left for dinner.