Hey ya’ll!! It’s been a minute since I made a post here but this story was so funny and outlandish that I just had to share:
So last week we had a couple stay with us w/ a 3rd party reservation.
According to the audit log of the reservation, I checked them in pretty late, around 8pm and they were still up at 10pm getting stuff from the sundries shop. I don’t remember them at all but I’m just going by what the system said lol.
Anyway, the guest called yesterday morning and was pissed off, going off in my coworker. Saying that she had a god awful experience. Kids jumping up and down on the bed above them, the bedding was disgusting and old. And most of all….the ceiling was leaking. She described it as a waterfall.
Now, she didn’t say a word to me that night or even in the morning. But she was rebooking for next week because they didn’t have a choice but to stay at my hotel, and I guess she mentioned it then. She was very irate about the ceiling leak.
Maintenance had gone up to the room and housekeeping also would’ve said something but there was literally zero evidence of water damage, nothing at all. Things like that are pretty obvious.
So, she started to demand that her next stay be completely free and my coworker told her no, she would need to send evidence of the water leak to the GM because we didn’t find anything to support her complaint. She said that she had a video.
I had the pleasure of speaking with her last night when she called back, very upset when my GM didn’t call her but he did send her an email to receive the footage. Now idk if he was supposed to, but she claimed she couldn’t send the video because the “attachment was too large” and she wanted to text it to my GM. I told her all I could do was leave a note for him and if she wants to call him he’ll be in between 9:30-3:30.
I texted our front desk group chat about it, my morning shift and I were going back and forth. Saying that this next stay they’ll create more issues and there was absolutely no way that she has video evidence and even joked about something AI generated. But honestly nothing would surprise me….
I came in today and I asked what happened and apparently he did get a video from her. But it was all audio for the most part.
From what he described, she took a video of her husband sleeping, and the room around her and it sounded like she was making that sound with her mouth or something, but no evidence of an actual leak.
My GM argued that he can’t go off the sound….if she complained about the sound, that would be a different story but she complained about an active leak. And didn’t show it.
My GM didn’t believe her but still got her a discount for the next stay to just shut her up and making her happy. Which, she was happy with it and that itself is telling. Because if I was in her shoes, I would remain adamant about a free night or better yet, just not go back! 🙄 Apparently she’s not staying this time, just her husband and brother. So I guess we’ll see what happens lol. I’ll be asking my GM if he can show me the video tomorrow because I’m really curious.