Copy-pasted unanswered email sent to the GM of this property almost a month ago:
Dear mister Santiago Alsina,
My name is Menoodj Bharatsingh I am from Holland doing business in Mendoza. I wanted to write you this email as a business owner and guest at your hotel. As I am having a project in Mendoza and traveling a lot to Argentina back and forth, I am staying in different hotels since 3,5 years. So also as for this time. I have stayed in Hyatt, Sheraton and other high-end places. Not only to see the quality of the hotels but also as a future partner as my business will be in tourism. So far I have been enjoying my stays here in the different hotels. And I must say that the first impression of your hotel and the nice and helpful staff (in the beginning) helped me to put you on a high rating. But as our stay continued (we booked for 14 days). I have been noticing and been annoyed by a lot of aspects which I think is not appropriate for a five star hotel. Also as I have a lot of experience in customer journeys in tourism. So I just wanted to point out the things that I think it should not be like it is: All staff members saluting in Spanish, some of them even respond in Spanish when talking English back. None of your staff members are welcoming the guests when entering the door. In the 13 days we have been greeted once. They don't even have friendly faces when you arrive at the parking. All bell boys, except a for a blonde guy, who was the only one daring to say hi in our last day.All staff members are using guest elevators for all purposes, this makes even the guests wait for a long time with elevators, crazy right? This is a cause of immediate dismissal in so many other hotels, particularly when having staff elevators right next to them.As advertised on the website we should have had an espresso machine and a welcome drink by arrival. We are staying in room number 1903. These things where not available. The greeting of the parking, bell boys and reception are the one that made me really not feel welcome at your hotel. I am an easy going person and not that difficult but these things for me where a no-go. In tourism this is what your clients first see when entering. Also by checking-in we had to pursue the reception if they could please iron our shirts as we had a wedding. After much begging they finally arranged it but the first answer was "no podemos". We have called the reception many times from our room to ask if we could be connected with Salentein, Cacheuta... and many others. We made more than seven calls and every time we where hanged up on the phone and not called back. Also on the TV a message appeared that your hotel did not pay the cable provider bill and the service would be cut the following day. I find these things very disturbing and I thought these are things that you should know are happening. Tomorrow we are checking out and we are returning in November. But we don't know if we will stay here a second time. Perhaps it is time to give it a last chance to the one five-star hotel I have yet not discovered. This far the staff, service and customer experiences we have found the best in Sheraton. I believe this hotel has all features but you have plenty of room for improvement, specially on training and development. Thanks you very much for reading our email.
With kind regards,
Menoodj Bharatsingh
PS I think we will definitely meet in the future as we have similar connections in Mendoza and we will start our business in 2021. Would be happy to meet. read more