Guest User
July 10, 2024
Good morning. I stayed at the hotel, Holiday Inn Express, 655 White Horse Pike, and before I speak on the bad experience, having been there once and never will go again, let me speak on the good experience. The booking was done on Friday, went there the same day. The room was clean, the bed was nice, the bathroom was clean, the soap was there, the people who brought the towels were nice and helpful, the people who helped with the checking in process were helpful. The fact we were able to check-out later, at 12:30 was not bad. I do not swim, but my fiancé does, so she swam, and I walked in the pool. We went there to want to get away from the city. Remember we had to come back to the city. So, the clothes which were used for swimming, we washed. I did get the detergent from the front desk staff, and the quarters too from them. I went to do the laundry, this being the same day we are to check-out, and some person who works in the hotel while I am getting breakfast stopped me and stated to me that I was in the past escorted from the premises there. That did not happen since I never been to the hotel there before, in my life. The person, no need to mention a name, told me that he would call the cops on me and requested to know my room number. What was unknown is that I am a gold member with the IHG, I stated such to the person. What was not known to the person is that I worked in hotels so I know and knew the procedure of when approaching somebody regarding if he/she belongs there. The procedure is not to ask what room one is in, but rather if one can show a room key. See, stating simply the room number does not mean one is a present guest. However, to show a room key is a stronger way of proving one's status as a guest. I did not state to the person while dealing in matters of being humiliated that about my status of working in hotels since the point too was to get away from the city and not bring the job there. So, I asked who told him about me having been escorted from the hotel in the past. He stated the staff did. Upon that, I offered to show my I.D. which if it was accepted, a procedure cops use, one's truth can be verified. The person did not want to accept my I.D., never did accept my I.D. So, I knew with the lack of information of the identity of the staff who according to him told him I was escorted from the premises from the laundry in the past, I did not state the room number. The laundry room's door was open. If it was closed like the pool's room one would need an access card to get into the room. So, knowing this and knowing the procedure of asking for one's room key to be shown, and certainly of one's I.D. being shown, which some hotels use to verify when checking one in, I realized the gentleman did not know what the procedures were. I spoke eventually to a staff member, which is why I called this 'nice room, bad staff' and stated I got the detergent from her, I named the person who I spoke with about checking out late, I spoke to her