You read that title correctly. This is not the only reason for the one star. The other desk clerk was rude from the start. He did not want to accommodate me into my friends room or upgrade us. He could not understand anything we were saying. He repeatedly said, "IMPOSSIBLE!"
That is the moral of the story, everything about this hotel is impossible! It started with the bed. Sharing the bed is impossible. It is small than my dorm room bed. Sleeping on the floor is impossible because there is barely enough room to get through the room. Other things impossible:
The wifi is impossible to get except in the lobby, the one computer in the lower level of hotel is impossibly slow, a decent breakfast is impossible, unless you like warm milk.
Easy transportation and good food around here: impossible. Calling a cab to the airport: IMPOSSIBLE!
This is what led to my postcards being fervidly torn up and thrown in the waste can. We asked for a taxi to bring my 2 friends and me to the airport. We had to make one stop before and so the lady said we will not make it to the airport (my one friend had an hour earlier flight). She cancelled the first cab. Then she suggested to order 2 cabs because the one cab she said was approximately 45 minutes away. Ok...
Then the cab shows up 10 minutes later. We said cancel the other cab we have time now. She refused to cancel saying she will be in trouble. She had no problem canceling the other cab and she told us we wouldn't fit in there. We fit in the cab just fine. And it turned into me saying, "I'm sorry we have to go! We don't have a lot of money for 2 cabs, since she was pressuring us into 2 cabs in the first place."
Do you know how expensive cabs are to the airport??? Let alone anywhere in Italy. You have to pay for the cab to come to you and then to where you are going. It's ridiculous.
So she is saying, "You can't!! You can't" Yelling and I kept apologizing but we had to go so we left.
I felt bad, but I also felt like she was trying to scam us. Then I realized I handed her my 7 postcards to different family members to mail 10 minutes before that, with stamps. Can you guess what happened? They never made it to their destinations, my other ones from the day before I dropped in the Vatican did.
I am not going to say she is a bad person. I can see somebody in the heat of the moment ripping up some paper postcards angrily. Maybe she regrets it, maybe she doesn't, but my family was looking forward to getting postcards from Italy from me.
This hotel is just not worth staying at, and this experience was terrible for me and impossible to forget.
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