Kenneth S.
Yelp
This hotel has recently undergone some changes and although change should be for the best, this hotel falls short when it come to servicing it's clients. Room accommodations were mediocre at best. Not what I expected from this hotel. The restaurant that was accessible for Sunday didn't even have a brunch. It was ala carte with outrageous pricing. Even for a tourist, this place was a total rip off. I guess their motto is "you're here, where else can you go".
I also experienced what was to me, my worst ever run in with the hotel on the service end. I perform for many occasions and Leo Palace Zefiro ballroom is not new to me. This time, under new management, the ballroom experience was the worst. To all my fellow DJs and Bands on Guam, forget about performing at this hotel ballroom. Access is super limited, not to mention that as soon as I parked my van to offload, I was instructed "per management" that I had to remove my vehicle right away and that I was not bale to off load my equipment at the closest point to the ballroom. I couldn't even bring my equipment in back of house so as not to cross the ballroom setup because "management" expects all entertainers to roll in their gear through the front of the ballroom. The difference is rolling your gear on a hard surface versus rolling it on carpet at a longer distance I might add. The back of house access leads you right to the stages of either ballroom. but this is not inaccessible per management. I had to deal with this 3 weekends in a row this past June 2017. Ballroom staff have their hands tied when they try to help out because "MANAGEMENT" instructs them otherwise. In other words, bring your own setup tables and other provisions to hold your mixers and stuff because it takes almost forever to get approval for you to use their stuff. THE WORST BALLROOM EVER! I alongside many other DJs on Guam have decided to boycott performing at Leo Palace here forth. I invite all DJs to do the same and let this hotel know that we too are in the business of pleasing our clients just as they should be.
If you plan on have your event here, get ready for some really inexperienced F&B service. The first weekend I played there in June was for a sweet 16 event. First off, $250.00 charge to the client for a "DJ SETUP FEE?!!" How are they going to charge you for a DJ setup when your DJ uses his own setup. It's understandable if you are using their equipment for your function, but almost all the time your DJ will use his own stuff. The sweet 16 client paid for a projector for their function. The projector came at 6pm for a function that started at 6pm. The next 2 weeks was shocking as well. On top of the worst load in access, when I arrived to set up for the triple grad party, there was so much debris in the ballroom from the sweet 16 party the week before. The carpets weren't even vacuumed. I explained to my client that the debris on the floor and stage were from the party the week before. He was already upset it was dirty, but to know that they had a week to clean their ballroom made the issue much more of a concern. The client tried to call the F&B sales person and of course she wasn't available. He contacted the front desk to send down housekeeping to vacuum the ballroom. The housekeeper arrived with a vacuum at just a little past 5pm, bear in mind that the function was set to start at 6pm. My client was not in the ballroom when she arrived and I had asked the housekeeper to go ahead and vacuum the filthy ballroom. Her response to me was "I cannot vacuum this ballroom, it's the guest who called for the vacuum that will vacuum it himself". What the heck is that kind of service. Bad enough they paid an outrageous price for the ballroom and banquet catering, now my client was expected to "CLEAN THE BALLROOM HIMSELF"!
The 3rd week (consecutive) there, was for a wedding reception. Again the ballroom floors and stage had debris from the graduation the week before. 3 weeks and the carpets have not been vacuumed, I wonder how they treat the dishes and utensils. I made note of this to the bride and she was furious knowing that she already instructed F&B to ensure a clean ballroom. If you have plans to do a function at LEO PALACE, I suggest you go elsewhere. There are so much more accommodating hotels and banquet staffers on Guam. Nikko, Sheraton, Hyatt, Lotte, Dusit Thani, Outrigger, Fiesta, Holiday Resort, etc., etc.. Anywhere but the Leo Palace. Trust me on this. This hotel only wants to please it's management not the clients!!!!