I think it is down right pitiful how expensive these hotels are in this small town. You can stay in Indianapolis for less than $200 a week. Full price at Raintree is over $420 a week and $313 if you know AHEAD OF TIME that'll you'll be staying 7 days or more. I have had to stay with my two children for over a week now waiting on my home to be ready. I hadn't gotten a deadline yet on my home, on how long it was going to take yet when I started staying. I asked if once I found out and it ended up being a week or more if I could be pro rated to their "special/discount" they offer for staying for 7 nights or more. I was given a flat NO! Then was told to get the deal I had to tell them from the beginning I'd be staying a week to get the weekly discounted rate. I work at a local salon here and have had several customers tell me they had the same awful experience.
If this wasn't bad enough, my son came down with a stomach virus and puked everywhere. He couldn't help it, he's only 18 months old. I asked housekeeping for service and why I need it after 2-3 days, she cops an attitude and tells me well the vacuum isnt going to clean the vomit up! I told her I used what I could to clean with (their tiny shampoo packets and wet down a couple towels). She says with an attitude well what do you need? I tell her I already took everything off our bed and piled everything I used to clean so she didn't have to come in contact with it or clean it, since it was my child, but that it still needed vacuumed due to it being 2-3 days and having two children in the room. And now we had no clean towels nor bedding for one of the beds. I had to leave for work. I come back that night after a long day at the salon, stressing about my situation for my kids and my house not ready yet, and picking my kids up from the sitters and still having to get them ready for bed and back to work in the am, worrying about the bad weather as well and there sits the vacuum, the sheets, and a couple towels from the dull service of the room I requested. I was appalled to open up our room to nothing being done and it being left for me to do. Here I am paying $61.60 a night for over a week due to them refusing ro work with me and I have to service/clean my own room! I immediately call the front desk and tell "the wonderful customer caring manager" what was sitting outside my door when I had politely asked for my room to be serviced AND left the service please sign out. I asked why my room wasn't serviced and why things were left for me to do myself. He says he doesn't know why at first and when I tell him I requested way earlier in the day before I left for work. He proceeds to tell me, oh well the housekeeper you spoke with asked if you had paid again yet and I told her no you hadn't! I asked are you kidding me since when does that stop my room from being serviced?! You have to service the room whether I stay another night or not! He proceeded to get crappy and telling me because I didn't renew my room before their "new check out time" of 11 (but I sure did before their old check out time of noon) that that's why I was neglected and he was sending her now. By the time she got to our room, I had already made the one bed by myself and vacuumed and changed the trash. She tried to them be nice and I told her it shouldn't of mattered whether I has paid or not yet. The keys automatically stop working at 11:01 am if you haven't renewed yet and I had been staying for 2-3 days already at this time, so obviously I was good for the money and would pay and that I found it very unprofessional and it showed no signs of comfort or hospitality with their actions and lack there of actions per request, which are all things people look for when staying at a hotel. If it wasn't for the fact that Steve Alford Inn doesn't have a mini fridge for my son's milk and that they have no discount whatsoever for extended plus it is more money I would of gone back there. At least they were nice, and they had good WiFi that didn't cut in and out and had full cable not just basic 20 channels! Only reason I stayed plus I didn't want to keep bouncing around from hotel to hotel until our house was ready. The manager is awful and needs fired and the hotel is in serious need of renovation. If we would of had the pool they used to keep up on, it would of seemed more like a mini vacation and a good distraction for my kids and I, and let up on some of the stress of being in between homes.
There was so much more bad as well like people smoking in the rooms upstairs and it was all supposed to be a non smoking building, and the constant pounding and thumping on the floor late at night, going on past midnight!!!.... from the group of out of town construction workers staying above us and it not being taken care of when I called and complained to the front desk. read more