I've never actually stayed at this hotel and I can assure you that I will never. I am getting married at Key Hall in February and had booked a block of rooms at this hotel in JULY. My thought was, "This is a really big hotel, there should be plenty of rooms, and everything will work out just fine". Well, I was VERY wrong. I dealt with Martha, who presented herself as nice enough. But by August, things had begun to crumble. Our wedding code was initially a three letter code with our last initials and "W" for wedding. Simple enough, right? Perfect for our wedding guests to book, right?
WRONG.
Shortly after we ordered our Save the Dates and printed cards with our wedding codes on them, the Hampton decided to change the wedding code to a six digit, completely random number sequence. Martha assured me that the code had not changed, but interestingly enough, my guests had trouble booking so they held off. The code does now work, thankfully.
A few weeks later, my step mother called the hotel directly to try to book and was told that there was no wedding block for our wedding weekend dates. I called shortly after my step mother had called and was told "I have no idea what happened" and that there was "some kind of error code" that popped up when the person tried to put in our dates. My step mother consequently ended up booking at the Parker Inn (which is actually much less expensive and MUCH more preferred).
I emailed Martha and she copied and pasted some generic apology to me and then went on to say that she contacted the tech department and the error shouldn't continue to occur.
Fast forward to a couple of days ago, when I emailed Martha and asked her to please add ten more rooms to our block (because, by the way, they only give you ten blocks at a time and require you to request an increase when the rooms get all booked up). Martha said she would add ten more rooms to our block. Exciting! At this point, the Parker Inn is totally booked up, so I'm feeling relief that the Hampton will be available... NOPE. Several of my guests came to me today and said that the Hampton was completely booked up for the entire weekend.
So... was I lied to when I was told that ten more rooms were added to my block???
I am so, so, SO disappointed in the chaos that has gone on at the Hampton. As I stated at the beginning of this, had I known how much of a headache this would be, I would never EVER have sent my guests to this hotel! read more