Dale S.
Yelp
This hotel is without a doubt the worst Hilton I have ever had the misfortune of staying at. If you're like me and you're traveling to Dallas for just a day or two and this seems like a good location because the rooms are supposedly spacious and it has a good downtown location, I implore you to look elsewhere. Also, feel free to check out my other reviews and take note of that I don't give a lot of low ratings. I don't think I'm being over-sensitive when I say that the customer service and conditions here were terrible. Let me explain :
--- Check in for this hotel starts at 3 o'clock. We arrived in the lobby at 3:30 and although I noticed it was incredibly dirty and that there were a lot of people waiting around, I thought nothing of it. It has a good downtown location in this was a busy time of day. However, I got in line behind the people checking in and there was only one person working the front desk. By the time she finished with the customers at the desk when we arrived there were already five families waiting in line for assistance. I approached the desk to check in, gave her my name and handed over my ID and credit card. She didn't reach out for them, and instead simply stated "yeah, we don't have any rooms ready yet so you can just leave your luggage in the lobby and we'lll call you when something is ready." I was confused because we were not early and we had a reservation. So I asked her how long she thought the wait would be. She replied that it could be 30 minutes or an hour that and that she had no idea. (Just FYI I am a serious planner so I'm not usually bothered by adapting to issues that come up with travel. However, I did not appreciate her attitude and had time-sensitive tickets to a local Museum within the hour.) We put all of our luggage behind the front desk with a large stack of other people's luggage, when I noticed that the staff member herself have her purse wrapped around her shoulder and stomach. I will add a picture of that for reference. With the large amount of people in the lobby and the shortness of Staff as well as the fact that I did not feel it all safe, I became very uncomfortable with the idea of leaving my luggage which included a large sum of cash (as we were traveling out of the country the next day) in this lobby . I was still in my travel clothes and had hoped to change my blouse and run a comb through my hair in the room before heading to the museum, but since my circumstances a change I asked my travel companions to please watch my luggage while I looked for a bathroom. unfortunately for me all of the amenities in the lobby are behind glass doors that only open with a key card and seeing as how the hotel would not give me a room I also did not have a car to access the bathroom. Frustrated, I made it about four minutes for a family to come out and just ran in the door while it was open. At 4 o'clock after spending more time in the lobby and recognizing this was not a place I feel safe or comfortable, I asked the staff member to please give us a room. I was told that 25 to 30 people have done late check-out and that some still hadn't left and that housekeeping didn't have any more rooms to clean. I was told that if I wanted to downgrade my king Corner Suite to a two-bedroom Queen room I could have a room, otherwise I would just have to keep waiting . I reluctantly agreed. On entering the room I threw my bags on the bed and headed out to the museum. I thought that would be the end of it. I was wrong.
---We returned that evening and wanted to play pool. We were downstairs by 9 and the table was being used, but we immediately discovered the virtual golf. The sign said it was available until 10 so boyfriend went to as the desk to use it and after waiting over 10 minutes for a staff member, was told at 9:22 that we couldn't use it because they "like to shut down early". Another example of poor customer service and completely ridiculous if you ask me.
---Annoyed, I went back to the room to take a shower and call it a night. I literally had to get my phone and start timing because I couldn't get any hot water to come out and I thought for a minute there is that there was no hot water. After five minutes the water did warm up. I got in to mold on the ceiling and the wall in the shower separating from moisture (please see pics)
I could actually go on, but spending an hour writing a bad review is not how I wanted to spend my vacation. Bottom line, this hotel does not put the customer first. There is a sign in the lobby advising that although it has the Hilton name, it is privately owned and operated and both of those companies (Apple Reiter Ten & Texas Western Hospitality ) should be ashamed of themselves. I would never stay at this establishment again and I do not recommend it.