This place is a scam. This review is long, so here's the main point: employees here will lie to you, blame you for their lies, try to cover up their lies, waste most of your vacation time, and when all else fails, threaten you.
When we checked in, one of their sales people tried to get us to go to their timeshare pitches. We finally relented (stupid us) and signed up for the 9am workshop on our departure day. The guy had to clear our time with his manager, since the actual timeshare owner was supposed to attend an 11am or later workshop (some stupid company policy) but that time didn't work for us. He said his manager ok'd the 9am time for everyone, and we were set. I paid the deposit, got a confirmation for 9am. The next evening, the same guy calls and asks if we can switch the owners meeting to 9:45am. He said his manager asked him to call. We said okay. We found reminder cards under our door that had 9am for most of our party, and 9:45am for the owner. Still ok. Fast forward to our departure day. I get a call telling us that meetings at 9:45am do not exist, and telling us we had to do the 11am one. I tell her that we originally had 9am, and that we were asked to move to 9:45. She told us that didn't exist, and that the 9am workshop was full. I was furious.
Since she had no clue what was going on, she put a sales manager named Ashton on. I have no clue how this guy got to a manager because he is a grade A asshole. He told us that whoever put us down for that time made a mistake. But there was nothing he could do. He would not honor the gift we were promised, nor did he apologize. I went to his office to show him my written confirmation of my times. He pulled out the carbon copy of my confirmation WHERE SOMEONE HAD WRITTEN OVER IT IN BLUE INK. Where it had said 9am in that dark, carbon copy ink, it had 11am written in blue ink over it.
I could not believe the blantent lying and apparent fraud that was happening! I asked Ashton for his copy so I could take a picture of it, and he refused, and quickly had someone take it and hide it in a back office. He couldn't get more sketchy if he tried. He said they'd send a copy to corporate, but if that document ends up anywhere other than inside a shredder, I'd be shocked! I asked Ashton if it was his business policy that we, his customers, have our time wasted because of their mistakes and lies. Apparently Wyndham is all about false advertising and abysmal customer service because Ashton shrugged and said there was nothing he could do. No apologies, not even a sympathetic word. He looked bored. The other sales manager, Terry, came out and told us to keep our voices down, or we could "do this the hard way". Apparently Terry thinks physically threatening people is a good business move.
So in addition to lying to us, trying to cover up their mistakes, essentially telling us they didn't give a shit about our time, this company also THREATENS their guests. I'll be making copies of my receipts and confirmations to send to their corporate office, although I doubt a company that hires such rude, disgusting people such as Ashton and Terry won't give a single shit about their customers.
And for the cherry on top of the sundae, this place is infested with ants. We called the night we arrived and were told that this was normal and someone would come take care of it the next day. I don't know if anyone ever showed up, but we had ants everywhere our entire stay.
The only positive part of our stay was Alexis at the front desk. She was the first person to actually apologize for what happened to us, even though she had absolutely nothing to do with it. It's amazing that a place with so many employees would have only ONE person that cares about customers. If more people at this place were like her, I wouldn't be writing this review, and Wyndham would have a lot more business. I shouldn't have to give you business advice, Wyndham, but apparently I do. Hire more kind, pleasant, customer-oriented people like Alexis, and quit hiring rude, short sighted, brain dead douchebags like Terry and Ashton. read more