Travis Newberry
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My family & I travel nearly every weekend for travel ball or my work, being military. We have stayed at Marriot locations literally all across the country, from New York to California and never had any issues with a Marriot ever! Until we came here...
The front desk clerk was a complete nut case and refused to check my wife & I in and book our reservation. She had started our
Initial contact off with verbally stating that she "Had never seen a rate so low" reffering to the military discount i had on my reservation. Then she had told me my card on file was declined. We then proceeded to explain to her that it is because we prefer to pay for our incidentals on a separate card. Because not everyone likes having pointless holds on certain cards. At this point something in her mind went out the window and she then started refusing to let us not only try and split the charges but pay at all... After several attempts, asking to pay she asked us to just step aside so that she could help the line behind us of about 5 other guests. Mind you, we had already waited in line for a while and it was approximately 2230, so we were naturally exhausted and just wanted to pay what we owed and go to our room. I was frustrated at this point ,tired and being active military i simply said "Can I just pay for my GD room, please?" I stated that I didn't care at this point and that i have a card that can pay for the entire lobby if she would simply just let me pay whatever the cost is so that my wife, son, and i can just go to our room and go to sleep.. Granted I admit cursing is not the answer and I even apologized numerous times. She then proceeded to call the cops and waste tax payer dollars to have them come out and for her to tell them she was just so uncomfortable with our presence, when all I wanted to do was pay and complete a task that would have taken all of 60 seconds! She then needed assistance from her supervisor and an officer to try and at least cancel or reservation and charges before we left. Even one of the officers walked outside with us when we left and expressed to us, his frustration with her attitude & incompetence. After many years in the service there isn't much that hurts my feelings, but it did however, embarrass & upset my wife, when it was all something that could have been fixed so easily!
Reached out to the manager of this place and she was just as inconsiderate and apparently "banned me from the property" and apparently has no real plans in place to train her staff and get them up to speed on how to properly engage in hospitality management..
As stated before, never had a problem with a Marriot until this place.. Not once ever raised my voice, or even directed anything in a harmful manner to anyone. But I guess this is the generation we live in these days. People get frustrated and perplexed when they are asked simple requests like checking into a hotel and they shut down and act like children and refuse to talk through situations as adults do. If it was up to me, that whole staff from management all the way down should most certainly be retrained on hospitality, customer service, and respect and if they can't conform, they should be terminated.
I would love to rate the hotel and the other amenities as well, but it's apparent that active duty service members who use a (single) curse word in frustration of being disrespected are not allowed at this establishment.
We went to the Drury right next door and the clerk, she was very sweet, checked us right in, gave us our room keys, and split our charges as requested, all in about 30 seconds. About $100 more because of Memorial Day weekend but well worth it just to get away from all that madness... lollll 🤷🏻♂️