Tijana G.
Yelp
WARNING: This is a long review. A LONG REVIEW.
I don'r really know where to start, with this place and probably the worst experience ever or with ther allies from booking.com.
We booked this place for 8 nights via bookin.com platform. We had a reservation from 08/03-08/11 (2016). When we arrived - they first charged us for our stay and then showed us the room. NEVER AGAIN! Ask to see the room BEFORE they take your credit card. You've probably seen those photos of the hotel online? We got something that looks like a broom-closet right next to the bar. So it's in an 'alley' that smells like urine (I am NOT overreacting, I mean litteraly smells like urine), right next to the bar, extremely small and hair hair HAIR everywhere. Stains on the curtains, stains in the mirror, stains on the TV (???), stains in the bathroom. Noise from 3 A/C units in front of our window. Window as in something that is just there acting like a window but facing the wall so forget about the daylight (plus the smell.....). AN THE NOISE FROM THE BAR. We immediately asked to be transfered to a different room, because there was no way that we'll stay here for 8 nights. The person who checked us in, Claudio, has already left so the other guy whose name I forgot was at the front desk and he said that he will pass the message, and to be patient and check again tomorrow. OKAY. This was room 112.
Tomorrow we came to the front desk around 8AM, Claudio was there, we asked to be transfered, said that we're even willing to pay to upgrade, asked if we could be transfered to the sister hotel maybe... At first he said NO to everything we suggested. And added "You got the deal of the day, it is what it is." Lovely. Then around 11AM he gave us room 109. We were excited to see it but everything fell apart when we saw that the room 109 is FACING the bar, like it's 5FT away from the bar, and our main complaint was about the noisy environment. So now we have that room 109, slightly larger than 112, facing the bar, where doors have this gap where you can put your finger (did I mention noise?), with the bed so soft that we both woke up with terrible back and neck pain... Musty, moldy, again not so clean... BAR!
We checked out the following morning after 2 nights and Claudio made sure that we know that we will not be getting our money back. I asked only if we should sign something now and what's the procedure and he said "You're not getting your money back. Contact booking.com 'cause you booked trough them." OKAY. GOODBYE.
So hotel is not returning anything, and I can bet they ended up selling the room to someone else since it was weekend, but okay. And we contacted booking.com immediately but they were acting like we did something wrong at first (''Since you've already checked out of the property without bringing up your issues with the property during your stay, it's that much harder for us to go back to the property and ask for compensation. Your complaint was discussed with At Wind Chimes Boutique Hotel, but in this situation the property was not able to offer any compensation''), but then after a couple of emails, photos, even a bank statement (yes, they asked for a bank statement to prove that we made a payment) - offers us 52$ on their behalf because hotel still refuses to cooperate. SO here we are now. That's why you're reading all of this.
Find some other place to stay. Somewhere where they are going to treat you like a person. And be careful with booking.com platform. They act like the third party but once you're fooled into buying something that is not real - nobody actually cares.
NEVER AGAIN.