EDIT: The manager/owner that called me a bitch, LIED TO HER FELLOW OWNERS and made it sound like I…read morewas the only issue. She conveniently left out that she A. Yelled at me without letting me speak, B. Threatened to call the cops on me, and C. Told me to have a "bad day."
They obviously don't realize who they're messing with. I will NOT be letting this go. These people should not be in business. No accountability and excessive fees for minor issues (NO DAMAGE).
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Let me start off this review with I broke a rule and understand there were consequences...however, the owner of this hotel took it too far.
LONG REVIEW
I got there at 7:30 or 8 at night with my dogs, bad from the start since I didn't realize they don't allow pets. Every Super 8 I've ever stayed at throughout the country allows pets and I am a cross-country road tripper, there's been a few. That's beside the point...
I get upstairs to my room with all my stuff, not seeing the no pet sign at first. Didn't even see one clearly displayed at the entrance. If there is, they need to make it more prominent. To get to my second floor room, I was using their luggage cart to take my stuff up. I'm a tall person. The sign on the luggage cart was right in line with the sign on the wall so I missed it the first time. I did, however, see the sign when I came back up with my dogs, which, by the way, we walked through the lobby.
So I decided that I was already breaking the rule, we may as well just go to bed. I had driven 13 hours (with stopping) that day from Oklahoma City. Everything was fine. We went to sleep. The room was small, but not bad.
I got up this morning, took the dogs outside, and came back in to get our stuff ready to continue my trip from to North Carolina; I still had 6 hours to drive. One of the hotel workers sees me and says, "what room are you in?" Well, I could lie, but someone could either be in that room, or it could be vacant. Or I could tell the truth, so I told her what room I was in and that I saw the sign late and apologized.
I go back upstairs and get in the shower. I get dressed, I'm getting our stuff ready to go and the owner calls me. I pick up the phone and know exactly what is going to be said. She immediately starts fussing. "Why didn't you read the sign?" I tried to explain. "I did see the sign, but it was too late by the time we got in, so I just was hoping to ask forgiveness rather than permission. We're about to leave anyway."
She goes off, she's yelling over the phone. She threatens to call the cops. First of all, cops have more important things to do, but go ahead. Second of all, we caused ZERO drama. You didn't even know I had them until the morning and I had taken them out TWICE and, like I said, came into the lobby with them. So I told her "you do what you need to do" and I hung up.
I got them together, got some of my stuff together, and made sure the room was clean because the only thing I left was an unmade bed and towels on the floor like you're supposed to to. So I go downstairs with my dogs, and most of my stuff to put them in the car.
As soon as the elevator door opens, she starts yelling again and I'm walking by to go out. I put my hand up and tell her, "I'm not listening to you. You're gonna do whatever you're gonna do." She proceeds to call me a bitch and tells me that she hopes I have a bad day.
The only reason she said that is because she didn't realize that I needed to come back in and get the rest of my stuff because when I came back in, she looked nervous like I was gonna do something. And if I knew that I wouldn't go to jail, then I would have smacked her.
On top of all that, the penalty she gave me for breaking that rule was $200. TWO HUNDRED?! That's excessive. We left that room in better condition than people do with children. I truly hope she gets the karma. She deserves for wishing bad things to happen to people