You’ll want to read this, its GREAT!!! My partner and I checked into the Greenacre Hotel on November 24th. After checking in, the desk clerk brought us to the entrance of the hotel building and handed us our room card keys. He then said to us “ The bathrooms are located down the hall outside of your room so don’t leave your room without your cards. You also need them to get into the building so make sure to always have your card on you. I don’t want to receive a call in the middle of the night that you’re locked out of your room”. Totally reasonable , I can understand how that could be frustrating. Many people, throughout the night, forgot their cards in their rooms. How do I know this? They body checked themselves against their door screaming “ let me in”. That wasn’t even the bad part. That I could put up with. The next day, my partner and I woke up early because we had an International Flight to catch. My partner went downstairs to load the car and then I followed about 10 minutes later. When I came outside the building, my partner shouted something at me but it was to late. The door to the building shut behind me. What my partner yelled at me was “ Don’t let the door close, the card isn’t working”. When I tried my card on the door, it just beeped and flashed red. I tried my partners card, the same thing happened. We were locked out and we had to return our rental car within the hour and catch our flight. I immediately called the desk clerk/manager. I told him what happened and his response was “ What do you want me to do, I’m in bed”……..well here’s an idea for you, GET OUT OF BED!!!!!!! I WAS FURIOUS!!! We had both of our cards and it was nowhere near checkout time!!! What kind of response is that, here’s the correct response: “ Oh my goodness, I am so sorry sir. I am currently unavailable but I will send someone there to open the door. Again I cannot apologize enough, this is totally unacceptable. Please send me an email at your earliest convenience and I will provide some kind of compensation, this is truly unacceptable. There will be someone there within the next half hour. Here’s my personal number in case he doesn’t show.” But of course that was not his response. After a bit of arguing, he let me know that someone was going to be opening up the bar downstairs within the next half hour. So, we waited. After a half hour, a gentlemen did show up and I have to give him praise. He moved with urgency and at the end of the day got us back into the building and we made our flight. I still can’t get over “ I’m in bed” , what is that! I’ve worked in the tourism industry for 5 years and this whole experience was just totally unprofessional. I’m looking forward to your response.
Advertised as ”Standard Room with one King or two single beds” for $200 a night sounded good. Turn up and discover it should be advertised as ”Sub-Standard Room with two single beds shoved together impersonating a King bed”. So I rang down to reception and asked them to swap me to a room with a King bed which they initially said they could do, but alas after going back down to reception and getting a new room card, SURPRISE another room with two single beds shoved together impersonating a King bed. SO I rang down again and was told to wait in my room until they could sort it out, which I didn't seem to want to do so I went back to reception and demanded a large bed (not two single beds shoved together) and was told, HEY ALL OUR KING ROOMS HAVE TWO SINGLE BEDS PUSHED TOGETHER,,,,, so they UPGRADED ME ! (NO KIDDING) to a Queen Room, which DID have a QUEEN BED WOW. Took two hours to sort all this out after a 14 hour day down the mines. Lesson in this DONT EXPECT A KING BED if you book a KING ROOM - shonks. How can you in good conscious advertise King Rooms without King mattresses - 1 star you guys hang your heads in shame