Peter B.
Yelp
AVOID at ALL COSTS
There is way too much goodness and kindness in Italy to tolerate the poor service, bad wine and terrible food
How Borgo Scopeto Disgraced & Humiliated me, my family, Friends & Relatives at My Son's Wedding
The disrespectful, unprofessional and verbal abuse that the Hotel Borgeto staff (specifically, GM Francesco Ferruzzi) consistently exerted over multiple days ruined a wedding celebration that is impossible to correct in my eyes, and that of my family and of all the wedding guests who had to observe the scene.
The lack of sympathy, empathy and general business acumen of providing a high level of service to a person and family whose son was being married is astonishing.
I (and many family members and wedding guests who travel from the U.S. and Europe) will forever have a tarnished image of the wedding. This vulgar experience from GM Francesco Ferruzzi will taunt me for the rest of my life and it is irreversible.
Due to character limitation I will skip to checkout day - Monday June 5
At Approximately 1PM I "Checked Out' of the hotel with this clerk. The clerk in the photo provided me with the following receipts below. I offered my AMEX card and she responded that it was taken care of. I asked if I needed to sign any thing and she replied no. I took back my AMEX card and the receipts and assumed I was checked out of the hotel. Note, I sat in the lobby, across from reception for 1 hour and no hotel approached me about the checkout process.
My Possessions Were Taken Without Permission
My Room (125) Cleared Without Checking Out or My Permission - Thousands of Euro's of wine thrown out and a portable speaker - Staff denies and suggests I am "lying
Contacted Front desk at 11AM abut 6 bottles of missing wine and a missing portable speaker
I alerted the hotel staff at the desk that I was checking out (with my wife, adult children and grand children) and my vans were arriving at 2PM to take my family, children and grand children and to resolve the issue BEFORE departure
Incompetent GM Francesco Ferruzzi Intervened and alleged that I was lying about the missing wine even thought the staff recovered some empty and full bottles and FOUND the "missing" speaker.
At Approximately 12PM, I approached the front desk (after speaking with them earlier on the phone about my other room (Room 125) being completed cleaned and all contents removed without my approval and without me "checking out of the room".
At Approximately 12:30PM, I approached the front desk for the 4th time (after speaking with them earlier on the phone (twice) about my other room (Room 125) being completed cleaned and all contents removed without my approval and without me "checking out of the room".
At Approximately 1:30PM the GM Francesco Ferruzi of the hotel approaches me at reception. Mind you this is a public location and many wedding guests are checking out.
The GM Francesco Ferruzi asks me, "what's your side of the story".
I explained the chronology of events outlined in the previous slides to which he replies, how do I know you are telling the truth?
Never once does he apologize.
The GM Francesco Ferruzzi never once apologized to me but embarrassed, humiliated and degraded me in-front of wedding guests in main reception area.
The GM Francesco Ferruzi does not acknowledge that the staff entered my room before I checked out and removed all of my personal contents (wine and speaker)
Nor does the GM Francesco Ferruzi acknowledge that the hotel staff said they did not take my portable speaker but it later appeared.
Nor does the GM Francesco Ferruzi acknowledge that the hotel staff said they did not take my wine but some empty bottles and 2 unopened bottles magically appeared.
Nor does the GM Francesco Ferruzi acknowledge that I had, in my possession, hotel documents that the front desk gave me when I attempted to check out but the staff failed to follow proper procedure and run my AMEX card.
Instead, the GM waited until the 2 transportation vans arrived (which I informed the hotel staff would be arriving at 2PM) for our departure but GM Francesco Ferruzi called the police and locked the front gate and delayed our departure -- for all the wedding party in the hotel lobby to observe. He's a real class act.
I am have dual citizenship (US & Italian) and GM Francesco Ferruzi embarrasses me as an Italian