Ashley Reddy
Google
I stayed at Park Hyatt in Busan for the Busan Film Festival for the 3rd year in a row. However, unlike in previous years, my stay at the Park Hyatt was not only worse than my stay in prior years, but it was actually one of THE WORST hotel experiences I’ve ever had.
First, I found my laptop case broken in my room one day when I came back to my room in the afternoon. I left it on the nightstand table and when I came back to it, I found a piece of my laptop case on the floor. I don’t know how it happened and at check-out, I explained that I came back to my room to find a broken laptop case and asked if housekeeping had accidentally knocked it off the table while they were cleaning— they said they “investigated” the situation and denied any fault.
Second, my AirPods are missing. The same day I found my laptop case broken, I noticed my AirPods were missing. I checked the entire room, my luggage, every drawer, even flipped the bed over— nothing. I checked “find my iphone” and my AirPods were last shown to be in the Park Hyatt (meaning I did not lose them somewhere else), but completely dead (despite them being on full battery the last time I saw them).
Once again, at check-out I explained how my AirPods are missing from the room but still showing its location to be last seen in the Park Hyatt hotel. At first, I tried to understand that it might’ve been an accident, where housekeeping accidentally grabbed my AirPods with the sheets and comforter and other things, but honestly, I believe they were stolen. Rather than taking responsibility, the check-out staff accused me of losing my AirPods on my own — even after I showed them the “find my iPhone” screen PROVING that they were last seen inside the hotel building, and refuse to take any fault.
Third, on my third day staying there, we were outside the room all afternoon (noon until around 4:30pm) and housekeeping had not made the room yet. When we asked the lobby staff why our room wasn’t clean, they blamed me and my mother — they blamed their guests — for having the “do not disturb” sign on in the morning, while we were still in the room.
We had to wait in their business lounge for almost 2 hours while they quickly clean the room.
The next day, even though we had the “do not disturb” sign on, housekeeping rang our doorbell in the morning, startling us, to come clean our room — we were still in the room, with the “do not disturb” sign on.
We explained all of these issues at check-out and rather than taking responsibility, or compensating us for the headaches, the broken property, and my stolen property — they said none of it was their fault, they did nothing wrong, they don’t know how this happened to us, but that their sorry for the inconvenience and that they’ll accommodate our stay “better” the next time we stay at the Park Hyatt.
My mother and I have NEVER, in our entire life, have ever left a hotel with broken property, missing property, and inconvenienced by the lack of service by their housekeeping team. The Park Hyatt team REFUSES to take any responsibility or compensate for our losses.
I will never come back to this hotel. There are other, beautiful hotels in Haeundae Busan, whose staff and accommodations are the same (staff probably being much better) than the Park Hyatt. This hotel is undeserving to be a 5-star hotel.
Please avoid at all costs!!! You’ll waste your money and lose your valuables here.