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RANT: Ramada, Wayne (long)

I booked this hotel as my block for our wedding. I solely booked them because they provide FREE transportation to and from your venue for every single guest staying at the hotel AND their rooms are only $90 if 10 or more were booked - we checked out the hotel about 2 mos. prior to the wedding and were actually blown away by how nice and upgraded the facilities were...so we booked and began working with the event coordinator lady or whatever, who was an absolute Doll... My ONLY request was that ALL guests were to be shuttled (by however many automobiles, buses,vans, etc.) at the same time...I wanted all my guests to arrive at 5:30 for my 6pm wedding and the coordinator ensured me time and time and time again that it was NO problem and it would be taken care of Low and behold, I arrive on Friday (wedd is Sat) and am running late for my rehearsal so I run in to drop off the out of town bags and she comes to me and says "ok so your first round of guests will be leaving here at 4:30pm and the second round at 5:30pm"...now considering the Tides was nearly 25 mins away, that made NO sense whatsoever...the first batch of guests would be waiting over an hour and the second batch would more than likely be late...hello? So she advised me that the A/C broke on the big bus and she 'assumed' i wouldn't want to shuttle guests without AC - I told her to make sure all the guests arrive at the SAME time that was ALL that I wanted... Day of --- most guests did not get their OOT bag First round of guests arrived at about 5:30 and second round of guests didn't arrive until 6pm and we had to delay the ceremony NOT TO MENTION...the 'coach-like bus' she told me would be transporting the guests was a Wayne High School big yellow schoolbus with NOOOO air conditioning...no fukkin joke! I was mortified to death and extremely pissed off to no end, and in addition to that the staff was incredibly rude, ignorant and inept - things were screwed up left and right word of advice: don't use them for your room block!

Re: RANT: Ramada, Wayne (long)

  • melissa721melissa721 member
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    edited December 2011
    Did you write a letter to corporate?
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  • edited December 2011
    I forgot the part of how I called down to the front desk at 7:45am on my wedding day because we needed more towels - there were only 3 towels in a 2 room suite and there were 5 of us taking showers...word for the convo was Me: Hi, this is Kristen XXX I'm in the suite and would like to request a few more towels please Front Desk: Yeah, I'll tell housekeeping when they come in Me: Ok, what time will that be Front Desk: I dunno like 9am or so Me: Ok, well its 7:45am and myself the Bride and 4 of my bridesmaids are all getting ready to take showers and we only have 3 towels so.... Front Desk: Like I said, I'll tell housekeeping when they come in Me: Okay, so you or someone else from front desk can't bring them up for me? Front Desk: No, we're busy Me: Ok, can I come down and pick some up myself then Front Desk: I'll tell housekeeping as soon as they come in, sometimes they're here a little before 9am I just hung up at that point to avoid any aggravation on my behalf and we borrowed towels from adjoining (family) rooms
  • edited December 2011
    Is that what I should do? I didn't know if I should write it directly to the wayne ramada or headquarters?
  • edited December 2011
    I called the headquarters and lodged a complaint (Embassy Suites).  They then sent me an email with a complaint number which was then sent to the general manager of the hotel, whose name I made sure to get, I had them email that to me as well.Definitely go to corporate!!!
  • kewltifkewltif member
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    edited December 2011
    That is absolutely ridiculous!
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  • DMLJDMLJ member
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    edited December 2011
    Speak to their GM also! Maybe you can get a free night or something out of this. Thats just nuts! Now I'm going to want to see the shuttle if I book with a hotel that has something like hthis. And the towel thing?? It may be true that the woman is not allowed to leave the front desk but they ALWAYS have towels at the front desk for guests to pick up if the need extra.
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  • edited December 2011
    Sorry should have finished my thought.  My parents, we were on HM, ended up contacting the GM with our complaint number.  Once he knew that corporate knew he was being a bit more helpful and comped my parents and us a room.Though I doubt you would want to stay there again at least you can know that you filed a complaint in corporate.  Enough of them and you hope things change.
  • melissa721melissa721 member
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    edited December 2011
    A free night is exactly what I was thinking. And that would come in handy if you and your H want to take a wknd trip or something. If it were me I would send one to both the GM and corporate.
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    SA #1 - Slightly abnormal shape, #2 - very low count

    Follistim + IUI 3x = BFN, BFN, very late BFP with super low progesterone --> c/p

    Moving on to long protocol IVF with ICSI and PGS in August 2014...how in the holy hell did I get here? FU 2IF.

  • edited December 2011
    Hmmmmm...... Posting a vendor complaint right after knotannie gave us a rule reminder? Where are our new mods. LOL
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  • melissa721melissa721 member
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    edited December 2011
    lol!
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    bfp 1 - m/c 1.31.11 @ 10 weeks 

    bfp 2 - baby born via c-section on 5.4.12 @ 37 weeks

    TFAS since February 2013--BFP on cycle 1!

    bfp 3 - blighted ovum/d&c on 4.13.13 @ 8 weeks

    SA #1 - Slightly abnormal shape, #2 - very low count

    Follistim + IUI 3x = BFN, BFN, very late BFP with super low progesterone --> c/p

    Moving on to long protocol IVF with ICSI and PGS in August 2014...how in the holy hell did I get here? FU 2IF.

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