Taliah L.
Yelp
Welcome to the Tempo Hotel or better known as the "Panty Thief" hotel where you can expect your belongings to be stolen by the housekeeping staff!
The last thing I expected when my fiancé booked a trip to New York for NYE was to become a victim of a crime. Upon arrival at this hotel, I found the floors to be filthy with gum, black-sticky smudge marks, and white flakes scattered throughout the room.
I spent the first day at this hotel doing the housekeepers job, and wiping the floors down with Lysol wipes. My fiancé complained to the front desk and they promptly sent the housekeeper to the room to confront us. Her words, "I heard you made a complaint about the room not being clean."
We left the hotel and came back later to find our clothes missing. Most embarrassing of all, our underwear! The next 5 hours dealing with hotel management became a humiliating and painful experience. We were at first told that our items were thrown in the trash by the housekeeper, then told that they found our items, then later when talking to the front office manager, he says that they are gone. I ask, "gone where?" He says, "They don't have them and that they are gone." How is that possible when trash pickup isn't until the next day and we were told we can have our items from the trash? If the hotel can't account for our property, and neither can we as guests, it means property has been stolen.
The manager thought a $140 deduction from the daily resort fee was a reasonable compensation for the loss of our items that cost well over that deduction. I've stayed at many hotels in different countries/states that have less money than the Hilton hotel brand and this has never happened before. The first time staying at the Hilton hotel and I'm robbed.
This location hires staff that take out their frustrations on guest and employs an incompetent hotel manager to match. My advice, don't stay here. And if you have to, lock up everything and allow the housekeepers to clean the room at your own risk. I regret my stay at this hotel.