ONE STAR - 000 if I could give that! ST. JAMES NOMAD HOTEL ON MADISON!!! BEWARE if you do not want to be ripped off! My account this morning was robbed by them, and they do not want to do anything about it, are not taking it seriously, and referring me to numbers that are not answering and denying me to speak with a Manager. IS THIS A WAY FOR A PRESIGIOUS NYC HOTEL TO DO BUSINESS??? YES OR NO? I say NO!!! WHERE DO I BEGIN???? How about BEWARE!!! I was having a happy Saturday morning until I tried to use my debit card which was rejected. I panicked and said why is this happening, I just got PAID yesterday! As an elderly and disabled woman trying to live on one paycheck after my divorce of 27 years, I was robbed of over $500 today, and they will try to commit theft on my account for ANOTHER $500+ tonight. Now my car payment is rejected, and after bills I am left with $29 to live on for the next TWO WEEKS. I WILL BE FILING A COMPLAINT ABOUT MY TREATMENT WITH BBB. Both I and Booking.com tried relentlessly to deal with them this morning until late afternoon.
I have been given nothing but the runaround from the time I began calling. They claimed I am not in the system and it is not their fault. Why rob $500 from my checking account then?? I was told to call Booking.com com, who were LOVELY and tried desperately to help me. THEY could NOT get in touch with the hotel until I GAVE them the number that my bank gave me regarding the withdrawal. The wonderful lady from Booking.com tried her hardest to get in touch with St. JAMES MOMAD Hotel. NO ANSWER. I told her to try the number my bank gave me. She did, and after I waited 45 minutes for her to return to the line, Booking.com said she spoke with a Director of St. JAMES NOMAD finally, that said she looked the reservation up, said it was cancelled on AUGUST 5th, and admitted they should not have taken my money. Now, still, no reversal. I can go in my local $ General Store and get an immediate reversal let alone a prestigious hotel!! Ludicrous. WHO is hiring for this place. Are they educated? Are they trained? Lousy management skills and lousy help that cannot answer questions - TRIAIN YOUR PEOPLE. TRY paying your help more, and getting decent help for your $500 per night rooms.
Although the theft from my account came directly from St. JAMES MOMAD Hotel, they denied they did it, and said Booking.com did it. So after bouncing around from phone call to phone call, I finally found the most wonderful representative and QUALIFIED, both in customer service and their business's knowledge protocol at Booking.com, I found out the deduction from my bank account would come from Amsterdam where Booking.com's major headquarter is, not the St. James NOMAD HOTEL had they done it. First lie the hotel told me. Second, I was told by a manager that there was no record that I had a reservation for Sept 20th or 21st 2019 in their system, 2nd LIE. So then: WHY WAS I ROBBED for over $500 from my checking account this morning by them??????
When Booking.com called them back with the number I had to give her, Nancy the Director said "Oh yes, here is the cancelled reservation in the database". Ok, you are WRONG - give me back my money!!!! Do the reversal you told Booking.com you said you were going to do! Furthermore, Nancy the Director, denied me ANY compensation for my returned car payment and other bills I was planning to pay with my paycheck which I got yesterday and NO APOLOGY, (ESSENTIALLY - TOUGH LUCK - ITS OUR FAULT AND WE DON'T GIVE A CRAP about the trouble we caused this woman. AND THEIR MISTAKE? IS THIS GOOD BUSINESS ETHICS??? PRESTIGIOUS HOTEL???? I THINK NOT!!!!!! On the other hand, Booking.com did all they could to rectify this, and felt so bad about what I was going through because of this hotel that they offered to compensate me one of the fees for $27, although it was not their responsibility to do so, where the hotel manager, Nancy, flatly said "NOT GIVING ANY BANK FUND reimbursements from overdraws". WOW! Now that's a good way to get a good name around town! I was done wrong and I am furious. Upper management - get qualified people - pay them more and maybe you will get competent and educated people that have good communication skills and don't just shrug off customers in trouble to numbers and extensions that don't work because they don't want to be bothered. Very furious over this mishandling of my situation. My advice upper to MANAGEMENT - take a good look how your hotel is being run by unqualified people, and maybe you won't have to see another review like this. read more