My husband and I had recently planned to visit Porto and had choosen Eurostars Das Artes based on the wonderful service we received at other Eurostars hotels. Due to a family emergency, my husband and I were forced to cancel our booking.
We had originally booked out hotel through hotels.com. When I cancelled online, as I had previously done, I assumed the cancellation would be processed appropriately. However, hotels.com experienced a "glitch" in their system and never communicated my cancellation. When I contacted hotels.com about the cancellation, I was treated terribly. I was refused help and hotels.com refused to acknowledge their error. When I asked for a supervisor, I was told that there were no supervisors and that there was nothing that could be done for me. Additionally, hotels.com had charged me the entire 3 nights stay, even though the hotel's policy for no-shows was one night.
I contacted the hotel and spoke to the manager, Pedro. Pedro was absolutely wonderful. After I explained my situation, he promptly agreed to refund my stay and to communicate that refund to hotels.com. He confirmed that hotels.com should never have charged me for the entire stay. I couldn't have asked for better service! My husband and I fully intend to rebook our trip to Porto and to stay at this hotel. Hotels.com could take a lesson from Pedro - good customer service is good for business.
(As an aside, hotels.com is the agency that must process my refund and has stated that it may be as much as 8 weeks for my refund to process. I will NEVER book through them again.)
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