Aloft Hotels in Chesapeake

Worst hotel stay ever. Booked 2 rooms, paid $1500. This hotel is no way a 3-star one. It’s dirty everywhere. Furniture in the lobby are leather-like material, and they are very dirty, clearly rarely cleaned or wiped. We booked rooms with free breakfast and the table where we had to sit to wait and eat was dirty, we had to call someone to wipe it clean, and even then she didn’t do a good job. We stayed from Saturday to Wednesday and not one single time the housekeeper stepped foot in our rooms to clean, despite seeing a housekeeper roaming around the hallway with her cart. We were told full cleaning day was Tuesday and was asked if we wanted our room cleaned; we answered “yes” but the housekeeper never showed up, not even to replace towels and rags. We only had clean towels on the first night. The second day, housekeeper removed dirty towels from room, left them outside the door, and never came back to pick them up. When we returned to the room after a full day of activities, we were greeted by dirty towels by our door. We were told someone was coming to pick them up, that someone never showed. This happened again. We had to go to the front desk to get clean towels and toilet paper. Our trash accumulated and we had to take them out ourselves for fear of being charged extra for leaving the room dirty, even if their housekeeping service should be taking care of that. You never know. Room doesn’t come with an iron but a steamer that is very inconvenient to use. We are working on getting refunded for our stay as we didn’t receive anything for the amount we paid. I understand being short-staffed but to charge guests $1500 and no service except for a mediocre bed to sleep on… imagine having to get your own towels and toilet paper from the front desk. When we checked out, the front desk asked us about our stay. We told her all of this. She said she was sorry, and was visibly embarrassed. She said she would have done anything about it but we have to go through Priceline to make things right as we booked our stay on their site. Went through Priceline and were told to go back and contact the hotel as it is a hotel issue. A total rip-off.