I took my children to Bifengxia Wildlife Park and booked this hotel for two nights. I would like to briefly share my experience.
When booking a twin room, it showed that I could use my "free upgrade" benefit (but my benefit points would be deducted once). In order to enjoy the benefit and trust the holiday chain brand, I booked two nights and used my free upgrade benefit twice.
After arriving at the hotel, the front desk saw that we brought children with us and offered to arrange for us to stay on a non-smoking floor. I thought that was very thoughtful at the time, and finally arranged for us to stay in Room 708.
After checking in, I found that this room type was no different from the twin room I booked in the picture, so I went to the front desk to ask whether they had seen that I had used the free upgrade benefit when booking. The front desk replied that they had seen it, but the hotel would only upgrade the rooms of its platinum card customers, not other customers.
Then I would like to ask the hotel:
1. If you don’t have the right to a free room upgrade, why does Ctrip show that you can choose a free room upgrade? Will this behavior mislead customers who originally would not choose you to choose you? Is there false advertising?
2. When I checked in, you did not tell me that I could not enjoy this benefit, but only said that I would be arranged to a non-smoking floor, making the customer mistakenly believe that he had enjoyed the benefit. However, I actually learned that floors 2 to 7 are ordinary rooms and there was no such thing as an upgrade. However, the hotel felt at ease deducting my room upgrade rights twice through Ctrip. They collected the upgrade fee but gave the user an ordinary room and tried to conceal the fact and get away with it. Is this fraud?
3. After I discovered the problem and raised objections to the hotel and Ctrip, Ctrip also actively coordinated with the hotel. The hotel did not realize that there was a problem with its service at all. Instead, it told me that they did not want to accept Ctrip's room upgrade order in the first place, but that Ctrip unilaterally forced the arrangement. The hotel also said that it could not refund the benefit points for the room upgrade. After coordination, the hotel said that the floor could be upgraded to the 8th or 9th floor, but the room size and facilities would be exactly the same. I would like to ask the hotel, what is upgrade? Upgrade means that at least one of the room size, room facilities, room functions, view outside the window, etc. is different or significantly improved. You can see that there is no view outside their window, you can see the old house and the parking lot. So what is the difference between the 7th floor and the 8th floor?
To sum up, without talking about other things, just talking about the hotel’s service and attitude, it has already given people an extremely bad feeling.
Let me briefly talk about other things. In terms of room facilities, as a chain brand hotel, the price is also at an upper-middle level in Ya'an. There is no small refrigerator in the room, no smart toilet or smart toilet seat, no small sofa, no smart home. All in all, it can only be said to be average. You say it's pretty standard. If you put more effort into your service, you can get it like this. Well, it’s not that it’s troublesome, I just really don’t want to stay here tonight.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether I get a room upgrade or not. In the end, I refused to upgrade from the 7th floor to the 8th floor. However, the hotel pretended to offer a room upgrade, but they took the money for the upgrade and arranged a normal room. This behavior is too ugly.
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