All it takes is one bad thing to turn off a customer. If I go to a restaurant I expect to get a comfortable table in a reasonable time, get served quickly by a polite and competent person, find food I like on the menu, have it served hot, have the server check back from time to time and get the check when I am ready for it. And maybe even some more things like a lack of insects and rodents and a clean restroom. If any one of these comes up short it colors my experience. Yes it is tough to please customers these days.
This place is new - very new. And the staff is new and inexperienced. I can forgive that. The person who checked us in was obviously one of these. She had a coach at her elbow. And together they managed the procedure. It took some time, but that didn't bother me. (Now if I were having a root canal done, I would not be so patient with a dentist who was doing her first ever root canal.)
We loved the room. It was a bit smaller than the Residence Inn (also by Marriott) that we usually stay in, but was very well laid out. And it gets extra points for having toiletries in pump bottles mounted on the wall of the shower rather than the usual little plastic bottles. However, the new and inexperienced housekeepers failed to fill the pump bottle of body wash. Oooops! OK. No big problem.
But this place has a flaw that it would never get all five stars from me. It comes up short on one of my current pet peeves. They do not have newspapers! No complementary paper. And they won't even sell papers in their shop.
Yes, the grounds were neat and tidy. Yes, it was all clean inside. No bedbugs. Yes, the complementary breakfast was the current standard we expect. Yes, the room was what I expect.
But, I like my morning paper for two reasons. First, I am an old guy and the morning paper is a habit. Sure, I spend a lot of time on the internet and can find any news (and even cartoons) there. But, second, we need to support journalism! As advertisers shift to buying clicks instead of buying display ads, newspapers are shutting down and journalists are losing their jobs. Most of what I see on the web is bullshit opinion rather than supported facts.
It makes me wonder if Marriott is just supporting Trump. read more