Brandi Gray
Google
I have traveled and been in the hospitality industry for years and have never dealt with the most inhospitable company ever.
First, this is NOT a 5-star hotel like it says. Encore in Boston is 5-star and was incredible. I only paid $300 a night and was treated like a queen. This place is possibly a 2-star, right above Motel 6. But even Motel 6 has cleaner floors. Yet for 2 nights I paid $576 total.
Second, the towels were dirty, the floors were disgusting (I never took off my shoes), the door knob to the outside door was almost falling off ( I did complain and they fixed it halfway through the next day) and there was a huge stain on my comforter (I didn't even use it). For as much money as they charge, they can take out the nasty carpets and put in vinyl and use area rugs. They had a coffee maker that didn't work with sugar but no coffee except 3 K-cups that you can't use?
Third, the location is probably the best part but honestly, it was so loud! I had to turn up the TV to max to drown out the roaring rapids. It was pretty to look at though.
The worst thing about this business is the fact they don't have a clue how to run a hospitality business. I originally reserved a month ahead for my daughter's 30th birthday and a week before, we had a personal situation and we had to cancel. So I thought. On my part, I didn't read the refund policy but this was an unforeseen manner. When I went to cancel on Airbnb on the Sunday before, because of the inflexible policy, they would only give back $298. I was shocked and didn't understand why anyone would take money that they didn't work for so I requested a full refund. The host responded the next day with a choice, make an insurance claim or rebook immediately. Looking back maybe I should have thought longer on this decision but I was going through a lot and wasn't in the state of mind to know when to rebook. They denied my request. I tried with Airbnb and they had the nerve to say it was a personal problem. Duh! Airbnb left it up to the host who already denied my request. So I was going to take the loss of $222 and went to cancel again but then I was given a total of $135 I would get refunded because I waited the extra day to get the host to refund the whole thing. I cried. My life was already in distress and now this. Taking my hard earned money for their greedy gain. So I didn't cancel. I couldn't. It was too much money to just give them for free. I went alone because unfortunately my daughter was unable to go. The whole trip was ruined by greedy people.
In hindsight, if we were able to have a moment to fix our situation, I would have rescheduled the trip and out of loyalty for a business that showed customer care, I would have told everyone about them and made all our trips to Bend with them. Since that was not the case and they obviously need to take people's money they didn't deserve to have, I'm here writing this but also I am a hairdresser that talks to hundreds of people a week. I have a business and I am a buyer for that business which brings me to different places like Bend to source products, I will never give your company another dime. Since my daughter was once a professional model and is now in the service industry, she will never recommend your business to her thousands of followers. Since I am an extrovert and a natural networker, I have already told many people about how awful your company is. Since I am a huge advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, they will know about your company. And once I figure out how to work Tiktok, I have plenty of videos to show off your sad rooms that you charge over $150 a night on Airbnb with a $85 cleaning fee and a $56 animal fee but on Google you advertise $69 a night and of course your made up 5-star rating. Talk about false advertisements.
Troy has 62 rooms on Airbnb and none of them are rated highly. So I'm not the first person to think this company is a scam! You're better off down the street at Dune Motel.