Geetanjali H.
Google
My experience started with Ibis Mumbai International even before I checked in. Three days prior to check-in, I called up the hotel multiple times on the board phone number shared on the booking email to enquire about the room and cab services. There was no response. I gave it a day and tried again on the next day, also multiple times, at differnet times of the day, still no response. I then called the Accor helpline and explained that I need to talk to the hotel front desk. Accor helpline also tried patching them in, but mentioned there is no response. Once I checked into the hotel, the next morning, I noticed that there was leak in the plumbing connected to the health faucet in the bathroom. Due to this, bathroom floor was wet and slippery. Before I left for my meeting I informed the front desk of this plumbing issue. They assured me it will be rectified. When I returned at night, the issue was still existing and by now, the foot towel was completely drenched. It was strange that even after the problem was highlighted there was no action taken on it.
The other issue I faced was cab service. The front desk informed me that a cab service is available from the hotel, which I availed in the morning for my drop to my meeting. I had informed them that I will need a return pick-up as well at night. They provided me the Cab service helpdesk number and told me to call them a little prior to when I need the service (I was around 2 kms away). The reason I wished for the hotel cab service and not an Ola/Uber, especially at night, is for safety concerns since I am new to the city. At around 10 or 10.30 pm, when I called the cab service helpdesk number, there was no response. I must have tried at least 10-12 times. Since there was no answer, I tried to call the front desk (which again I did multiple times), but exactly like my experience before my checkin, there was no response from the front desk number provided. At 10.30 pm at night I had to make alternate arrangements to reach back to the hotel.
Another experience that happened - on my second day at the hotel, I realized that my ID card was not with me, which I had provided to the front desk at the time of check-in. I called the front-desk about this and they let me know they will check about it. After some time, they handed over my ID. My issue here is that, when I missed my ID at the front desk, why did the staff not pay attention to it, and hand it over to me, if not the same day, at least the next day morning. Only when I realized after 2 days that my ID is missing, and asked the front desk to check, they returned it. Had I not realized my ID is missing, and returned back from Mumbai, I would never have gotten to know where I lost my ID.
It was a bad experience overall and I don't think I will be availing services from any Ibis hotel henceforth.