Stephanie C.
Yelp
On October 14th, the night before my wedding, I checked myself into the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Providence-Woonsocket. I was provided my room key and room number by Dee. Upon going up to my room, I was found with a huge mess, wet paper towels everywhere and trash everywhere. Apparently there was a plumbing issue. Dee moved me to a new room, which "appeared" to be clean (key word: appeared). I stayed in that room that night. Upon waking up the next morning, I proceeded to get ready for my wedding day. Fast forwards to approximately 1pm, my hair and make up is being done, and I have my feet kicked up. My sister tells me my feet are BLACK literally BLACK as if I were running around in the dirt for hours, but I hadn't left the room. Immediately disgusted. My sister washes my feet. Fast forward to getting into my wedding dress at 2pm with the help of my mom. We hear a knocking on the door, it's housekeeping saying they need to clean the room. My bridesmaids explain to them that we're getting ready for a wedding and we'll be out of the room soon, but aren't ready yet. We're told if we don't leave, my husband and I won't return to a clean room that night because housekeeping ends at 3. My mother calls the front desk and says someone needs to clean the room when we leave, or we won't be paying for the room. Front desk rep proceeds to say "good luck not paying for the room, we've already charged you" and click. He hangs up on my mother. After spending way too much time arguing with the hotel, I demanded a call from the manager and I frantically rushed around not wanting to come back to a dirty room with my new husband, and I rushed out of the room, forgetting my earrings from my husband, my hair piece, my flower girls tiara, among other things. This ordeal not only causes me a great amount of stress (as if I didn't have enough of that on my wedding day) but it also resulted me in being 1 hour late to my own wedding. An hour I'll never get back. Upon leaving the hotel in my wedding dress to my wedding, I met Dee and told him how incredibly upset I was, before storming out, and in return I received a smirk and almost even a laugh. Fast forward to the end of my wedding night, my husband and I return and the room "appears" to be although, I'm sure the carpets are still filthy as trash. We checked out the next morning, and I asked the girl working the front desk to have the manager call me. Never got a call. Fast forward till today, after enjoying my honeymoon in Mexico, I call customer service and spoke to Ly to make her aware of what happened. I told her I wanted to speak to the DL. Not the manager who didn't care to call me after being requested to 2x. Not only does the manager not call me, Dee calls me, the incredibly rude individual I met with on my wedding day. I did not wish to speak with him and made that known. He transfers me to his manager, Nate; whom I also did not want to talk to, Nate calls me from his car, I'm on speaking having a difficult time hearing him. He says "I'm on my way to my Dr appointment, you asked that I call you and im calling you" he proceeds to give me the hotels side of the story, which was fabricated, mind you. Nate informed me that he was the one who cleaned my room and proceeded to tell you that I should "understand how he feels" having to do that. I proceeded to tell Nate that he works in the service industry, he chose this profession, and it is his job to make sure his paying customers are happy. I demanded a refund for my stay and was declined. I was met with an offer of $50. $50 for missing an hour of my wedding, filthy room(s), and unnecessary added stress to my wedding day. I explained that was a slap in the face, as we paid almost $500 for our stay. He offered me $100. Still not satisfied, so I decided to ask for just the refund of Friday night then, as that's the day that caused me the upmost stress and loss. He still refused. So hear I am typing this, feeling the upmost disgust of having to spend the night their in a dirty filthy room 2 nights in a row, and unimaginable amount of stress of missing an hour of my own wedding, around other losses that were acquired that day. The fact that the Holiday InnExpress doesn't feel my suffering is worth more than $100 is why I am writing this today, and why my husband and myself won't ever be staying there again. I am not stopping here. I will be contacting everyone I know. Including the BBB for the fifth and all social media outlets.
Sincerely,
A very pissed off customer