Abdul M.
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The hotel is handy but it comes with lot of problems and it is not good when you intend to stay in a place that gives peace of mind. I don’t know where should I start from. The hotel has only limited choice in breakfast, the ACs in most rooms are old and non-functional (I stayed in two rooms in three days), I was moved to the second room because the AC of first room was not working), but most importantly the reason for which I felt terrible was the staff’s behaviour. They are throughly rude at their highest degree. I am a frequent traveller and I have stayed in hundreds of hotels around the globe. This is the first time I have seen how a staff can be so rude, impolite and slow in providing service to hotel guests.
I am particularly mentioning about the white young female reception staff (working around 14:15 on the 8th of September). The hotel provides a bottle of tap water in the room when they arrive. I should note that I stayed there three days with three seperate bookings. While they supplied me water for the first two days, but on the third day, there was no water. I called the reception to supply me a bottle of water but they didn’t. So I came down to the reception and requested for a bottle of tap water. The female receptionist refused to supply one for the ground that they only supply it on the very first day. I told her that every booking of mine was seperate so I should be getting one as each of them is a new booking. I know this is a silly thing to write. I could go and buy a bottle of water for a euro from the store but there was no store nearby. But it is also not only my right to get one bottle but it is a matter of empathy the hotel should display to its guests when the person is simply asking to drink water. This was not a matter of consideration for a machine-like hotel and its reception staff, so they didn’t provide me a bottle of water. I reported it to other staff there but none was taking the customer request in consideration. I stayed in Lisboa for two more days but not making any further booking in this hotel and left the place. A hotel should not be seen as a building only but facilities and customer service are critical for them, which are very much absent in this hotel. Thank you.