Emma Leigh W.
Yelp
I do not take leaving this two star review lightly. I had some really positive experiences, but unfortunately more negative experiences, so I did the math and the division and came up with two stars.
Let's start with the positive! Free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at 9 PM, which is perfect for a bedtime snack. Free movie that they play at 7 PM. This place is all inclusive, shuttle service, restaurants, gift shop, bar, a swimming pool. They thought of everything.
Dorothy, at the information counter could not have been more delightful! Our shuttle driver, I believe her name is Corrine was lovely! The gray haired man doing the valet parking, super helpful, friendly, and very nice.
Now, onto the negatives. I stayed in room 565 and I am attaching a photo of the metal strip right outside my door. So every morning and all throughout every day that I stayed there the house cleaning carts go over it and it is the loudest metal CLANK starting bright and early around 8 o'clock in the morning. It was every day AND all day long and it was horrible. It's almost like a modular building that was just pieced together by these metal strips.
It is a beautiful hotel, but the employees have no pride in it because every single wall on every single floor is scraped from the housekeeping cards. I thought maybe it was just my floor, but I looked on every single floor and it's all the same. Some scrapes are so deep that little chunks of sheet rock and wallpaper are missing. So sad to see such a beautiful new hotel with such wear and tear so soon. I am attaching video of that as well.
If you fill out a paper waving housekeeping, you'll get a free beverage. I don't particularly like people in my room, so this was an easy decision for me to make. I fill out the paper and I go downstairs and this woman named Kate, (who is always bent over staring at her phone every single time I went down there) took my paper and just said thanks and went back to her phone. When I got back up to my room, my son asked me where the Voucher was. I figured they would just attach some sort of note on my account, he said no they were supposed to give me a voucher so I called down to reception and a woman answered. I asked where I could get the voucher and she insisted I should've been handed the voucher when I turned in the form. I said that I was not given a voucher and she basically said well I don't know what to tell you, you should've been given one. I described the person and said her name was Kate who took my form and she said AND I QUOTE "oh. That's me. You can come down and get one". Keep in mind I'm on the fifth floor in a suite so it's a good seven minute walk back down to reception. This is after a 15,000 step day and it's late at night so seven minutes down seven minutes back to my room was not enjoyable especially because I just come from down there. Anyway, when I got back down there. I expected a smile and an apology. Nope, she barely looked up from her phone and handed me the voucher and then went back to her phone. Not one word came out of her mouth for my inconvenience and her dropping the ball.
Had dinner twice in the nicer restaurant and it was nice. Had dinner in the Elvis Presley diner and we placed our order and we were pre-dinner rush. As we are waiting, the restaurant is starting to get more and more busy. We noticed the people next to us get their food even though they came in easily 10 minutes after us. So we're waiting and waiting and next thing I know they are finishing their dinner and getting their bill and we still haven't been served. we flag our waiter down and he went to check on our food and said that someone had taken it and he would put the order in again. We've now been sitting 45 minutes with no food. Our food actually comes out very prompt after that, but it had me thinking if food is always so promptly served how come we were sitting there 45 minutes in our waiter did not know to think something was wrong.... Anyway, at this point, we've missed the 7 PM movie but we're trying to wrap up and we never get the bill. We keep waiting and waiting and waiting finally we flagged the waiter down again and he says he's sorry that he forgot about us. But I can't help but feel if someone took our food and gave it to another table, wouldn't you kind of hyperfocus on our table after that. Anyway, when he brought the bill, no apology, no offer of a free dessert, no 10% discount, nothing. The fact that this mess up cost us missing the movie was irritating enough, but I just think he should have realized if food comes out promptly that there was a table sitting there for over 45 minutes with nothing. He dropped the ball and we were not in anyway compensated for missing a movie. I mean a free scoop of ice cream for my kid would've completely changed the tone.