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What a dump! To say that this place was underwhelming would have been the understatement of a lifetime! So, I go to check into my 2 rooms that I had reserved about 2 weeks prior to my arrival (there were 5 adults in our group), and even though I had called them twice to first request and then confirm that they'd be adjoining rooms, the front desk clerk promptly hands me keys to 2 rooms on DIFFERENT FLOORS! She said (I kid you not) that they are adjoining rooms, right next to each other! Yeah, one of them is on the 8th floor and the other is on the 7th floor, but sure, right, they are virtually next door to each other! At this point, I'm thinking 0-stars for the rating...but it gets worse, way worse.
This should have been the first red flag for this dump of a hotel...but, then we say we're going to self-park the single vehicle (all of us rode together). The lady hands me the hotel keys and then gives me directions to the garage, saying to drive to the 7th floor so that we can park close to the first room. We get out of the car after parking up there, and walk to the door--there are stairs...so much for one member of our party who cannot handle stairs very well--and so much for any ADA requirement that says that folks in wheelchairs or the physically disabled should be able to get into their hotel room...We walk in and go up the half-dozen steps. We get to the first room, and say good night to the first 3 members of our group.
Then I hop on the elevator with my wife and we push the button for the 8th floor. The doors close very slowly and with a lot of creaking and groaning of the mechanism...and we sit there. Nothing happens. We push the buttons for the 9th and 10 floors. Those lights go on, but still the elevator doesn't move. We push the button for the lobby--still no movement. We push the open button. Nothing. The doors remain close and now we're stuck in a hotel elevator at 11pm...After hitting the emergency button (which should sound an alarm...but it does not) and then pressing the open button frantically for about 5 minutes, the door finally opens and we're back where we started--on the 7th floor. So, we go trudging to the opposite end of that floor to find the stairs up to the eighth floor. Two full flights of stairs--about 10-12 in each set, to get up to the 8th floor...dragging our suitcase behind us. It's now 11:15pm and we're finally arriving into our hotel room. A mere 30 minutes after checking in. Wow! What a great place!
Once in the room, I call the front desk to tell them that their elevator is broken. No luck...because the phone is too. No dial tone, no one to call. So, I pick up my cell phone and call the front desk the old fashioned way--from an external phone to the hotel. Some lady answers and proceeds to tell me how it was my fault that they elevator didn't work. Clearly I had not waited long enough between closing the elevator doors and then pushing the floor button. Yeah, like that was the issue. As for the phones, she said that they often turn them off at night so as to not disturb other guests or the front desk! Huh? Say what? Crazy place.
So, in the morning we push the elevator button for fun (nothing happens), and then we repeat the process in reverse...dragging our luggage back down to the 7th floor and out to the car. We tell our family about our elevator issue, and we get a similar story from them--they tried to go down to the workout room at 7am. Got on the elevator and after a few minutes it did go down to the 1st floor...where it stayed without opening for nearly 5 minutes. Then someone helped them pull the doors open and they got out. They were so frazzled by the elevator, that they simply walked back up the stairs to the 7th floor as their exercise.
We drive down and I go do the checkout process. I tell the front desk person about our collective experiences to which they reply "user error. Everything you said is false and the equipment all works--you must not understand how to work a phone or an elevator". Nice. Then I get the bill for the rooms. Both of the rooms had 2 queen beds in them--at a rate of $101 per night. First room with tax was $118.90 [so $17.90 in taxes]. The 2nd room had a $30 self-park charge attached to it (would have been nice for them to tell me that is how much self-parking costs...yikes!). So, $101 + $30 = $151.78 [yeah, they also charged me $2.78 in "self-parking taxes" meaning that parking really cost $32.78]. That seems really steep for a parking garage that is not secured in any way, is full of creepy people who are sleeping in the garage (saw a guy passed out in the back of a jeep--hope that was his car), and then requires a bunch of weird stairways to get from the garage into the hotel [again, doesn't ADA ever get enforced in Nashville?].
So, don't ever stay in this dump of a hotel. How this place has survived without getting shut down for poor maintenance, the grime, or the lack of ADA compliance is beyond me!