The hotel rooms here are full of pieces of paper talking about their “valued guests.” Well . . . just how much do the actually value their guests?
I paid extra — a lot extra to get a room on the club floor. Only after I arrived do I find out that the Club Lounge is closed. So all the amenities you expect to get for the extra money are not available. “But wait,” they say. We’ll give you an equivalent benefit.
So what is this “equivalent” benefit? Instead of getting access to the club lounge on EVERY DAY of your stay, you get for ONE NIGHT ONLY a happy hour consisting of 90 minutes of “free flow” of selected beverages and a single plate of canapes. After more than an hour of waiting and several requests, the canapes finally show up. What do we get? One deep fried prawn, one tiny portion of Japanese seaweed with a sprinkle of fish roe on top, the tiniest and thinest ham and cheese sandwich you can imagine (maybe 10 grams of ham and cheese), three small pieces of fruit and a tiny portion of chocolate cake less than an inch on each side.
To make it worse there’s nothing “free flowing” about the free flow beverages. You can’t help yourself, and you have to get out of your chair to track down a waiter or waitress to ask for a refill.
This miserable excuse of a ONE NIGHT only benefit is the substitute for MULTI-DAY access to the Club Lounge that you pay for in your room rate.
I have to say that this is my worst experience ever at any hotel in the Bonvoy universe.
I think the management at this hotel needs to think long and hard about the concept of customer service. Or maybe Marriott Group needs to think long and hard about the management of this hotel.