Phillip Q.
Google
1. Lack of power points in bedroom. Apart from the single power point on either side of the bed, there are no other power points in the bedroom. If you're travelling for work, you can't plug in your charger when working on the table.
2. Water pressure is extremely low in shower. Hard to use a rain shower when it's dribbling water. Handheld wasn't much better for pressure. Temperature also hard to control for shower. Basin and toilet had no issue with water pressure.
3. Extortionate pricing for mini bar. I can't believe Accor still doesn't provide members with free water in rooms. Even the cheapest Marriott group hotels provide members with minimum 2 bottles of water per day.
4. Breakfast was average at best, paid additional for breakfast with room and only ended up going once. If you have a cook there making omelettes, why can't they make proper scrambled eggs instead of the watery baked eggs you are serving? Also, not much diversity on offer for a breakfast buffet. At least barista coffee is included.
5. The whole process of trying to get a late checkout is a lottery. You can't request a late checkout when checking into the hotel, like every other place. I even emailed front desk before arriving to request a late checkout, but they couldn't confirm. Rather, you need to approach the front counter the night before and hope that you might get a late checkout. In my case, I was only able to get a late checkout to 1PM.
6. Housekeeping is also extremely slow. You can never guess what time they will service your room. I left the room for 4 hours in the morning with the "Make up room" light switched on, came back around lunchtime and the room still wasn't serviced. I ended up skipping housekeeping for that day as I needed to work in the room. They left me a card to say room service hours are between 8am to 3:30pm only. I guess they only service the rooms between 1pm to 3:30pm then, unless they pick my room to be serviced last.
Some other minor issues like the mobile check-in not working on the App. Chadstone is also quite remote so it was hard to get an Uber at most times.
The pricing for this hotel was also spiked during my travel period, definitely not worth paying over $400 per night.