I was under the impression that St. Regis is a Marriott property but I was only able to book thru Booking.com not Marriott.com because it apparently is not although advertising says otherwise. I chose the St. Regis Hotel for the convenience of being able to walk to the Fisher Theatre without going outside. My mom & I were in the area to see the musical CATS on Tues. Sept. 10 for her birthday. I woke up with an unexplainable migraine, think I found out why...We checked in at 3pm, the gentleman at the front desk claimed they didn't have any queen rooms available but if we didn't mind he could put us in a double. We THOUGHT that wouldn't be a problem...hmmmm.
We were first put in room #310. I called downstairs and now Ryan is covering the desk. I informed him that the left curtain is hanging/falling down, the door stopper is missing so there's a hole in the wall where the doorknob hits it, the room is cold & the heat hasn't turned on after waiting 5 minutes (he advised us to just keep the thermostat in the OFF position & the room should warm up; well it was already in OFF position so now what?!?), the toilet paper holder is broken & hanging upside down which the housekeeper knew about AND the toilet doesn't flush. He said he'd see if he could get in touch with maintenance & call me back. He did after a few minutes but claimed he couldn't reach anyone. (With all the maintenance issues we saw, this had us thinking there has been NO maintenance working at this hotel for awhile & based on the other YELP reviews I think we're right!) Ryan transferred us to room #312. THOUGHT this solved our problems. Still had issue with toilet not flushing properly, it did as long as we held the handle down. We washed our hands in lukewarm water; the water never seemed to get hot, it actually got colder after toilet refilled. At check in a female employee gave us directions how to walk from the hotel thru their restaurant to the Fisher Theater. We headed that way around 7:15pm. The musical was just ok. We left at intermission because I still wasn't feeling well & fortunately we headed back when we did because we weren't told we couldn't get back to the hotel thru their restaurant because it closes at 9pm! We got to the locked doors a few minutes before 9pm. Luckily a nice male employee heard us knocking on the door, saw our CATS programs, opened the door & let us walk through. Despite all of this we slept pretty well. NOW for the morning after...I still had a migraine when I woke around 6:15am but it was easing up. I checked my cell & noticed an alert appeared at 3:41am for a pending charge from St. Regis for $70.08. I figured they took the $50 incidental hold AGAIN & charged me $20 for valet ANYWAYS when Ryan said they would just take that out of the $50 hold but why the 8 cents?!? I called the desk again, this time Kenya answered & claimed the gentleman that checked us in was still new & didn't do the transaction correctly so it didn't appear that the $50 hold was placed on our room. Not sure how that was true when I received an alert from my bank immediately after he did at 3pm. She apologized & said the charges would be reversed at checkout. That's fine but that's not putting my money back in my account at checkout. (I had to call my bank Thursday, explain the situation so they'd release my funds.) Approximately an hour later my mom & I were disturbed by loud noises coming from the construction workers' tools/machines. I understand they need to renovate but starting AFTER 8 or 9am would've been acceptable (NOT 7am) or consideration from front desk staff by not putting guests in areas of hotel that the crew would be working on early in the morning would've been appreciated. After an hour of this annoyance I told my mom we need to checkout ASAP! I attempted to take a shower but...NO HOT WATER!!!!!!!
I called the desk AGAIN to notify them of this & was told there's been no calls from other guests about the water but she'll find a room that has hot water so we can shower. I guess she just hadn't had any guests call about the water YET because once again based on the YELP reviews NO HOT WATER has been an issue at St. Regis for awhile. Shortly afterwards security brought us keys for room #305. I thought about how ridiculous this was & just threw the keys on the tv stand; we washed up in lukewarm water, packed our bags & went to checkout. The manager Tammy was at the desk now. She was very polite, apologetic & even took the valet charge off my bill. Although this was the second worst hotel experience I've ever had in 53 years, I must end on a positive note...I'm giving this review two stars instead of one based on the staff. Despite all the issues we were having, they were all very nice, professional & always tried to rectify the situation. We might give St. Regis another try after renovations have been completed & hopefully that'll be a more positive review. read more