Cruiser27830520418
April 21, 2024
If I could possibly rate a hotel zero out of five stars I would. I talked to two managers before writing this review, hoping to get some clarity, or at least reasonable explanations, but there was no such so: I have stayed at Marriot properties intermittently since 1999. I left Marriot for Hilton many years ago and , due to the fact that I agreed to stay at an Aloft as part of a youth soccer team group booking — I’ve been reminded why…. Arriving late on a Friday night with family in tow after a full day of work and school followed by a five hour drive, the last thing I wanted was to walk into a lobby being cooled by four plastic box fans with hotel doors left wide open. Though given no explanation for such, we were checked in a sent to a room at the end of a hallway of broken door frames, broken key card readers and dings and dents abound. We entered a room with obnoxious “daylight” spectrum lighting in the bedroom and a broken (non working) light in the bathroom. Everything about the room screamed “no one cares about me!”. I have plenty of photos that make wasting my time further describing the situation a waste of my time. The shower that had no reasonably functional temperature control, the dirty floors, the human hair on the coffee maker, the empty box of tissues (with one tucked in the top)… the hits kept on coming. With only two sets of towels, though exhausted, I hope to at least have the chance to call the front desk to ask for an additional set and to report the bathroom light not working - only to see we had no telephone in the room! My venture downstairs was met by a front desk person only several days on the job who had clearly spent most of her “orientation week” learning to listen to dissatisfied guests. The hotel was fully booked, she said, so my option to get a working light bulb in our bathroom was to wait for the maintenance man to return from his run to pickup another victim (er, guest) at the airport. I took her up on her offer, but when the “do-it-all-man” wasn’t back in thirty minutes, I told her it would need to wait until the next day - as we desperately wanted to sleep. Amazingly, upon attempting to climb into bed, we found one of the two beds had been made “inside out”, with the duvet directly on the fitted sheet! As such, we remade the bed ourselves. I could go on, but you more than get the point. Avoid this hotel at all costs!