StourGrove
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Our air conditioning was set to a high 24.5C, despite the warm weather and this was impossible to change. In all we complained about this 5 times. Twice your staff succeeded in reducing this to 21.5C (still too high), but each time the setting returned to 24.5C. On the final night the concierge showed me on his PC that he was able to manually reduce the setting to 18C, but no he had done this for the wrong room. When he then went into the page for the correct room all the fields were coloured red and could not be altered, so this was a waste of time and no solution was offered. We stayed 3 nights and had to sleep with the window open (and curtains partially open), resulting in a very poor sleep due to external noise and early morning light. On the first night our bathroom door made a loud squeaking noise whenever it was opened, but at least this was fixed the 2nd day. During breakfast on the 1st morning there were no bread rolls left and this was only 9am. The coffee tasted really bitter so we went out for coffee all other days. On the 2nd morning we ordered eggs benedict off the a la carte menu. These arrived lukewarm and the sauce was really vinegary. That afternoon when we returned to the room our room key cards had stopped working and had to be replaced (twice). Our bathroom towels had not been replaced and the tea bags had not been replenished. The bathroom had never really been very well cleaned on each of the days we stayed. Each time we complained about the aircon and asked to see the Duty Manager he/she was never available. The first time one of the reception staff came with us to the room to check the aircon he told me that people were always complaining and its not his fault. This was such an unprofessional attitude. It is laughable that one of your slogans is "we take pride in the high standards that we set ourselves" as you failed so miserably in this respect. You also state on your site "welcome to the exceptional". Would that be exceptional (ly) poor? This was probably one of our worst hotel experiences ever in terms of service, standards, room/sleep quality, professionalism. Why you didn't even offer us some form of rebate for your shortcomings is beyond me. Our next Radisson stay is in Stockholm but I am now going to cancel this and stay elsewhere.