Ruchi Chharia
Google
Before clicking the pay button, Think again!
Great views, hospitality and a lovely Mumbai property..
That’s what we thought while booking the hotel.
It was my birthday trip and I was thinking nothing can go wrong if it’s a Taj property like this and “oh my God”, I was so wrong.
We had a four nights stay and had requested to split the rooms by views, Two days in beach and two days in sea link view.
They did nothing. Absolutely nothing!
1) The room change request was not passed to anyone and no one did absolute anything about it. Mind it, we were not staying in basic categories and we are Taj club members as well.
We followed up everyday thrice and absolutely nothing was done. Probably they expected us to leave all our work and sit on their heads to do it. But whatever! If you are asking me to believe they did not have even one sea link view room vacant in four days. I will say everyone is lying!
2) Guest service is below the norm. Our rooms wardrobe light’s sensor was not working properly and the light was flickering randomly making me uneasy. Did I complain, Yes! Was anything done, No!
3) Housekeeping is below par. I found a bindi sticking in my bathroom from previous customer. They literally never replaced our bath robes. Always kept only one when we were staying as a couple. Never replaced basic moisturiser and toiletries like toothpaste. May be the eye to detail is not there of u have a long stay.
I don’t think there is a set protocol or anyone verifies the room. We asked them to clean the room next to birthday, the just poured my bathtub with all the balloons from previous night and (wait for it), didn’t clean it for two days. We complained and then they removed the balloons and two days old cake. Who eats two days old cake? How to use bathtub? Are these common sense questions not existing ?
After we escalated they (for absolutely no reason) piled up 10 towels near the bathtub. Why? Who asked? Only they know!
4) Food in breakfast buffet is OK.
The staff and nice and they serve you without hurrying up even at 10.30am. But overall you won’t find those crunchy croissants or nicely made omelettes. Food is OK..
The Two stars I have given is bcz of food being alright and I want to be nice.
Also please note-
They have a bathtub but they don’t provide shower gel separately. If you would like to use bathtub, carry your own gel.
They have a coffee machine but they do not provide the coffee pods. Reason only known to them!
Lastly, They ruined my birthday and that’s how I will remember it!
Good luck to them!