Marriott guest offered cheesecake after room won't lock
“They offered me a glass of wine and a cheesecake” when Marriott guest discovers that her room won’t lock and the hotel can’t move her because it’s overbooked - Wine and cheesecake to make up for a lack of safety?
When travelling one of thy first things a guest might do is inspect the lock on their hotel room door, to ensure that they will be able to have a modicum of privacy and safety in their temporary accommodations.
And if the door lock does not lock, it definitely raises red flags for the occupants room.
One Marriot guest says that when she found the door to her room did not lock, she asked if she could be moved into a room that did. However, the hotel was overbooked – so they simply offered her a glass of wine and a slice of cheesecake.
When she inspected the lock on her room, Maggie (@maggiemadecrochet) says she could easily see through the gap in the door and was able to simply pop it open with her keycard.
“I checked into the downtown Renaissance Philadelphia this week for work and noticed that I could not lock my door,” Maggie says in the video. “the only thing securing the door was this little latch on top. I walked outside to see if I could lock it effectively and pulled it tight. There was a huge gap in the door that I could see directly into my room through. And look at that, popped the lock right open with my key card. I did that twice. I showed the engineer, the engineer was appalled. Guess what the front office did? They offered me a glass of wine and a cheesecake because the hotel was oversold.”
In follow-up videos, she says she was able to secure the door with some items from the room, including a doorstop, charging cable, and ironing board. She also shows a screen grab of an email she wrote to a representative of the hotel chain asking why the front office felt it appropriate to offer a glass of wine to a guest who felt unsafe in their room. When she got a response, it was addressed to her husband.
“You didn’t even have the time and patience to go through and read my note,” she says in the video. “I need somebody to listen to this. Someone could have gotten hurt.”
The daily Dot has reached out to Maggie via Etsy shop and to Marriot via email regarding the video.
Several viewers wrote that they would be checking out immediately or demanding that the hotel get them another room somewhere else if they had such an issue with their door in a hotel. “Omg they wouldn’t move you?” one commentator wrote. “Absolutely not I’d checking out or they should be accommodating you and moving you to another / partner hotel nearby.’
“They should have refunded you and secured a room at another neighbouring hotel at their cost for you since they were booked,” another said. “They would need to get me another room at another hotel that is not a safe place.” A third shared.
Many viewers heavily criticised the offer of wine and cheesecake in place of the customer’s safety.“Wine and cheesecake to make up for a lack of safety?” one commented. “They needed to book you elsewhere on their dime and refund you that IMO.”
“I’d expect more than a glass of wine and cheesecake for my last meal!” a further viewer wrote.
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