Vieraskäyttäjä
15. lokakuuta 2024
In July of this year, I made a reservation through ******* for one night's stay on September 14th. When I attempted to check in at 6 PM I was told that the reservation could not be honored because I was a “no-show”. The desk clerk told me that my reservation had been for two nights, the 13th and the 14th, and that because I was a “no-show” on the 13th I was deemed to be a no-show on the 14th. To get a room I had to book at the hotel's prevailing rate, which was $42.68 more than what I had paid via *******.. A check of my confirmation revealed that yes, I had reserved and indeed paid for two nights, the 13th and 14th, an error I overlooked when I received the confirmation papers from *******. (Had I, I would have corrected the mistake immediately!) Whose mistake this was...mine or Expedia's...is moot...since they sent written confirmation which I failed to correct, I had to bite the bullet on that. However, what is not in question is that TRU had been paid by ******* on my behalf for the two nights in question, and thus TRU had no business assuming that because I was absent on the 13th that I would therefore be absent on the 14th as well. I might have had car trouble, a medical issue, or have been delayed for some other reason... in any case I should have been able to rely on the room being available to me for the entire time for which it had been paid. The hotel manager, said his “system” automatically classified me as a no-show. He was adamant, and said that had I called the hotel and alerted them to my delay, they could have made some accommodation, but since I had not, there was nothing he would do. This is not how you treat a customer: as if TRU were a parent whose child had failed to notify that he wouldn't be home when he was supposed to be. Moreover, they had indeed accepted payment from ******* for both nights, yet when I asked TRU for a refund for the second night, they said sorry, I would have to deal with *******. Which I did. And when ******* contacted them with the same request, they relented and refunded the original amount of the charge for the second night. Bottom line: I was ripped off for the difference, $42.68. (Had ******* not contacted them, they would have happily waltzed away with A DOUBLE PAYMENT FOR THAT ONE NIGHT! Terrible, terrible customer relations....
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