Melissa Grimes
Google
I have stayed at the Fairmont numerous times over the years and always had a great experience. It's been a few years, so we decided to stay there for our girls' weekend.
I prepaid for my Jr. suite and, upon arrival, we waited in line behind one person for 10-15 minutes, then began the check-in process, which took no less than 20 minutes. I was informed that my room wasn't available due to a flood 4 days prior. They had a king suite available, which would have been fine, but I had two girls joining me the next night, so I was offered a roll-away bed or the pull-out couch, which was NOT what I paid for and completely unacceptable. It would have been nice if someone had let me know that my room wouldn't be available after the flood happened, so I could have made other arrangements. In the meantime, we were put in the King suite until they could figure something out. We unpacked our stuff and about 2 hours later got a call asking when we wanted to move as staying in the King room wasn't an option, despite suggesting they put our other two friends in a regular room for the inconvenience of all of this. We were offered the option of moving that night or in the morning. We re-packed all our stuff and moved to a different room on a different floor after dinner at 9:30 pm. When we went to the Gold Lounge in the evening, our keys no longer worked. I confirmed with the manager that our Gold access would still work, and she assured me it would. Ten minutes later, they were able to straighten it out and get it working.
In the morning, I went down to the desk to collect keys for the other girls, and we headed to the pool. Upon my friends' arrival at 11:00 am (we had an additional room since there were 8 of us), they were told someone was in their room and wasn't ready, which made their upgrade to an early check-in pointless. Why offer early check-in if there is a possibility it won't be available? We were told the other guests had til noon to check out and weren't out yet.
One of the girls in my room stopped by the room after being at the pool, only to find that her key didn't work. In fact, none of our keys worked despite taking care of this earlier that morning. I spent another 20 minutes at the front desk. By 2:45, the second room was ready.
Calling the valet the next morning to retrieve our vehicles was pointless, as no one ever answered the phone. We had to stand outside with our stuff for 20 minutes waiting on our vehicles to be brought up.
Needless to say, we will not be staying at the Fairmont in the future.