3 years ago
Unfortunately, there is no option to leave zero st...
Unfortunately, there is no option to leave zero stars. This hotel employs, by far, the rudest, most inhospitable staff I've ever encountered in over 40 years of staying at hotels. I, along with about 150 other people, attended a special event at the hotel. The hotel has been told by the event organizer that the restaurant could expect a large crowd after the event for dinner. It was 6:30pm on a Saturday evening, which is, I believe, a time when all other hotel restaurants are prepared to accommodate a large amount of people at one time. Dinner was to be independent and people were breaking into smaller groups at different times to be seated. Many of these folks were staying overnight at the hotel and had gone to their room to change and meet up with their families, etc. When I arrived at the restaurant I was told by the food and beverage manager that he couldn't serve our party (which contained five people) and said he was "thinking of shutting down" because he "wasn't prepared for so many people". However, when looking around the restaurant, there were plenty of empty tables and it was not all that crowded. The manager attempted to send us to another restaurant miles away. We finally managed to join a table of friends from the event who were already eating, but were then told that if we sat there, our dinners would take "a minimum of an hour and half to two hours" to bring out. Getting frustrated, I went to the person at the front desk, who informed me that "the hotel had not been told" that a large group of people would eating at the restaurant. He did inform me, however, that anyone who wanted to could sit at the bar and be served food in a timely fashion. I later found out that his story was a complete fabrication, and that the hotel had, indeed, been clearly informed that many people would be eating after the event. Besides, event if they hadn't been informed, isn't it incumbent upon the hotel to assume that when they host a large event on a weekend afternoon, that many of the people from the event may want to have dinner at the hotel restaurant? Isn't this concept like "hospitality 101"? However, this event has been held at the same hotel for several years, and the event organizer did inform them clearly about the fact that we would want to eat afterwards. I guess nowadays, everyone wants to place the blame on someone else. To top it all off, when I asked for the name and address of where to write a complaint letter, I received major attitude from the two girls at the front desk. One of them then yelled at some of the other event participants who were headed up to their rooms that "when you get up there, you'd better keep it down OR ELSE." I'm not sure what precipitated her outburst, since prior to heading up to the rooms, they had been sitting at the BAR on a SATURDAY NIGHT after being KICKED OUT of the restaurant. If the hotel wants zero noise, perhaps they should not have a bar open on a weekend evening. Better yet, since they are 100% ill-prepared to run a hotel, they shouldn't have a hotel at all. It was far and away the worst experience I've had at a hotel in my life.