Helga W.
Yelp
Just want to preface that my sister and I work in the hotel industry. Our respective employers are always pushing us into customer service courses so our standards may have been a lot higher. I would summarize this as Omni has a great, central location but the hospitality was lacking.
First, horrible communication. They either do not respond back or take too long to reply. I had some questions about the property (example, where are ice machines?) and they responded to my 1st email after a week and never responded to my 2nd email.
Second, service was kinda awkward. We need some stuff for the room so sister called PBX. She tells us we need to request thru housekeeping and transferred us. The housekeeping clerk tells us "can you put it on synergy?" Sister says ok, downloads the app and it turns out app is for internal/employee use... (Maybe we're channeling work-mode we work PBX so maybe we sounded like an employee..) We waited 30 min then called housekeeping again. This time they took our request, but they took it wrong. We asked for house slippers, if available but they brought us a clothes iron. (Lol) There were also other odd moments but then I'd be writing a novel about this.
Third, wifi was advertised as included. It IS free if you are a member of their loyalty program or you can pay. ($9.95 per night for regular and I believe the higher speed was $12.95 per night.) I opted for the free route. Not sure if it was because it's a new account, but I had to call IT for assistance. He said to just buy the wifi and then call FD to give loyalty number and they'd waive charges. They charged me for it, but it was a hassle to constantly remind them to remove it. (Also it's 2023, free wifi should be the standard already. The airline industry is starting to offer free wifi on all flights.)
Fourth, I only went thru the hassle of getting wifi because I wanted stream Netflix. Wifi kept disconnecting randomly. It was kind of irking because it said it was offered but was not really... Another service that was not working was the ice machine. The floor we were on did not work, hotel operator said odd number floor, so I went down 1 and it did not work there either. The floor above us worked at the very least.
Despite all that, Eduardo at the bell desk deserves a shout-out. Prior to arrival I had asked if I was at the North or South, so we know where to go. Got no response so we relied on Google to just take us to the Omni. Google took us to the North tower. Eduardo was near the entrance and asked if I needed help, I said I was looking for check-in. He directed me towards the elevator, which others were also waiting for. He instructed the group that there were more elevators around the corner if we didn't want to wait. While I was checking in, he helped my sisters unload our bags and came to the front desk to wait until we got our room assignment. He was thoughtful, helpful, and personable.