Booked and paid for a room for 2 nights. Booked and paid for on Oct 7 with check in on Oct 15 at 3pm and check out Oct 17 at 11am. Pre called on Oct 15 at 2:oopm (an hour before check in) to let them know my son, his wife and my 2 grandsons (aged 5 and 4yrs) would be there around 8pm and was told they had NO ROOMS and that YES, they had OVERBOOKED and EVEN though they had charged my card, they would do NOTHING and I should check with Booking,com to see if they would find me somewhere else, the manager did not care at this hotel (Extended Stay America Suites - Columbia - West - Stoneridge Dr) so I called Corporate and they didn't care and told me they could handle my dispute in 1 biz day which would be Monday cause my check in was Fri with check out on Sun. I was VERY UPSET and after contacting corporate 3x, they transferred my call to an EXTENDED Stay front desk. Needless to say, I WAS PISSED but, thankfully, the front desk they transferred me to (I AM SURE WAS BY MISTAKE) was an EXTENDED STAY across from the street of the original one I had paid for, After being SO VERY frustrated with the 1st EXTENDED STAY and EXTENDED STAY Corporation....I WAS PRIMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So when I got put thru to the EXTENDED STAY that was RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from the original booking, I WAS LIVID. Thankfully the GM at that EXTENDED STAY (Shannon Burney
General Manager
ESA Management, LLC
450 Gracern RD
Columbia, SC 29210) said YES WE MESSED UP and ask me " Please, give me 20 minutes and I WILL MAKE IT RIGHT" . And I did and she DID. She got us into an ESA 20 mins from our original site with no extra charge and with a refund. It took over 3hrs to get a room and I was willing to pay the original fee but she would not take it and stated, "that yes, ESA was wrong" and that they would "make it right". I am not sure after the DON'T CARE attitude that the original ESA and ESA Corporation gave if I WOULD EVER book with them again but I would book from ANYWHERE Shannon was managing. PS....I have proof of booking date and pay if needed by ESA because APPARENTLY their EXCUSE is ....IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU PAID OVER A WEEK AGO, SOME ONE WANTED TO.....EXTEND (LOL...MANAGEMENT THOUGHT THAT WAS A FUNNY PLAY ON THEIR NAME) THEIR STAY at EXTENDED STAY OF AMERICA so, we took ya money over a week ago and have not even bothered to inform ya of no room up to check in time......LOL.....OUR BAD.....LOL....WE ARE EXTENDED STAY....LOL.......WHAT YA GONNA DO................LOL????? Thankfully Shannon at the next road over HELPED even after CORPORATION left her high and dry with my anger. PLUS, my booking covered a KITCHEN suite (which was suppose to be a cost saver) and I GUESS you could TECHNICALLY call it that......STOVE (CHECK), FRIDGE (CHECK), MICROWAVE (CHECK), POTS/PANS/UTENSILS/DISHES/GLASSES/CUPS/ETC (NOOOOO). SO WHAT GOOD IS A KITCHEN with NOTHING TO COOK IN AND EAT ON?!!? Thank you Shannon. Love that YOU did your job but EXTENDED Stay will NEVER have to worry about booking me again. read more