What a nightmare. I checked into this facility at 11:38 pm on Saturday, 27 September 2024. I arrived by Uber after being discharged from the Jupiter Medical Center emergency room after an auto accident where I was rear-ended at a railroad crossing intersection.
The receptionist was dismissive of me, though eager to get my credit card
. I tried to tell them what had just happened and they did not understand me. My cell phone had died in the hospital and I only had my charging cable with me. When I got into my room I expected to plug my phone into the usual USB ports in all other hotels. There were none. I returned to the desk and asked if they had a charger I might borrow. Without looking in a drawer or a cabinet, she said no. I replied " No one has ever left a charger behind in a room? " No response from her. With a dead phone, I went back to my room.
In the morning I went downstairs for coffee. It was 9;45 am. Breakfast is included with the room rate and served until 10:00 am. There was no food, no cream or milk for coffee, no pastry, no waffle mix for the waffle maker - just a serving dish of biscuits. No butter. We were told breakfast was closed by a surly, intimidating kitchen worker, with little English. I said it was 9:45. He replied we close at 10:00. I restated it was just 9:45. Several children were sitting down with cereal bowls waiting to eat breakfast. They were told no milk. Another woman asked " No soy milk, no almond milk, nothing ?'. We were told no. So, as mothers we walked into the back kitchen area which was not closed, we opened the refrigerator and found a gallon of whole milk, almond, soy, and oatmeal milk. We took the gallon of whole milk, put it on the table for the children to have some cereal. This scary, rude man came over and took the gallon off the table, and said " I call police ".
Imagine the innocent children sitting there witnissing this. Imagine your disabled, widowed, mother coming down for breakfast after a car crash and a trip to the emergency room being treated this way. Did the Marriot family and its founders build their business by denying a dozen people a bowl of cereal? How shameful. As a final insult the police did come and the girl at the desk told him I am barred at all Marriots for a year. Is this the policy of Marriot? I doubt it. What an embarrassment to the company. I have called corporate and filed a complaint and I called AMEX to deny the charge. read more