I've traveled a lot both independently for work and many times with my family, staying at Hilton hotels almost exclusively. I have never experienced a hotel as bad as this one. So much so that I decided to write a review. This is from several aspects, from the customer service to the rooms and the hotel services.
Check-in: Early check in was unavailable in the app by the time we were trying to get it, so we figured we'd swing by the hotel (earlier than the 3pm check in time) to see if our room was ready a little early. I walked in at about 1pm and went to the front desk where I was barely greeted after standing in a short line. I asked the woman if early check-in was available for my room, and she said no. It's not available at all there. Ok cool. So I asked her if it was ready early could she let me know? She said "Check-in is at 3" and that was it. I then asked her if my room will be ready right at 3 and all she said was "yes." I thanked her, to which I received no response, and walked away to speak with my family.
I then went back to the desk and she was gone, but another employee was there. He ended up being the manager but I didn't know this at the time. He was very polite when I asked if we could store our bags there while we shopped around, and he obliged.
Fast forward to 2:45pm, we pull into the parking lot and I wait until 2:55 to go in. There's a long line, and everybody is frustrated. The original woman helping me was still there, as well as the manager next to here. Both speaking with customers about their rooms not being ready yet. 3pm hits, and nobody's rooms are ready. The lobby is quite chaotic at this point with people waiting for their rooms, and all the staff said was "We were fully booked last night so we're busy."
By the time I got up to the desk, Marica was who was helping me. Or I should say NOT helping me. I went up to the desk and reminded her of our conversation earlier, and she simply said "I'm out of rooms, they haven't released any more to me." I again reminded her that she guaranteed my room would be ready at 3. She said the same statement again and walked to the back, leaving me there. A few minutes later another employee came up to the desk and clocked in, proceeded to try to help me. After looking at our reservation, our room was available!
We walk through the hotel to the elevators, and one out of the two of them is seemingly broken. So we get into the small elevator and go up to our floor, and find our room. It seemed like all they did was make the beds and wipe down the counters to clean it. It was quite gross. Under the cabinets there were open beverage containers. The carpet and the couch was stained and the room had an odor. The bedsheets had water rings on them from old stains. There were only two towels in the room as well. The maintenance on everything was extremely lacking too. We unpacked, figuring we could deal with it because it was only for one night.
After we got settled we needed to do some laundry from traveling. This was a mistake! The washers worked fine, but we had to dry our clothes in the dryer at least 3-4 times per load! And the machines cost money, so it was an expensive laundry experience. We were doing laundry for about 5 hours total that night. We also setup the couch bed for our kids during this time, and instead of bedsheets and an extra blanket and pillow in the closet area like literally every hotel has, the plastic bag had trash in it.
The next morning we didn't even want to think about having breakfast at this place, but my daughter wanted to get something to eat really quick before we started our day. My wife went downstairs to see what they had, and everything looked gross. My daughter still wanted something though, so she went down (prior to breakfast being over) and all the food was gone! As it was getting close to check out and prior to us checking out, one of the housekeepers knocked on our door to ask us if we were leaving! Before check out time!
During our stay and while checking out, walking through the hallways of this place isn't fun. You can't tell who the staff is because nobody wears uniforms or name tags except for the front desk. The housekeepers left their carts in the middle of the hallways and just looked at us as we're trying to get ourselves and our bags past them. Didn't move their card or help us move it, just stared at us for a minute then went back to "cleaning" the rooms.
I would not recommend this hotel to anyone, they have a lot of work to do before they should even be called part of the Hilton brands. I'm so disappointed in this because we understand being busy, having delays, and having issues while traveling. That happens. But the condition of the hotel, the attitudes and lack of customer service from the staff, and the terrible day-to-day operations are what concerns us. This is all controllable, and based on other reviews here, they seem to not care about any of this. read more