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Rockie
Devoted June 2019

Venting about Hotel Block

Rockie, on May 10, 2019 at 11:24 PM Posted in Planning 0 14
Just need a good vent.
my experience with the hotel started with me not able to get a hold of the hotel room block coordinator. After about a month I reached out to the hotel chain customer service to see if they could help. They had the coordinator email me. In this email he went on and on about how she had called me and we talked about everything and she gave me pricing. I told her I wouldn’t have been able to talk to you that day because I was in an exam (plus I wouldnt forget that). Instead of just dropping it or saying oops maybe it was someone else she kept bringing it up in conversation (like per our conversation). I felt extremely patronized. Moving past that, about two months later I randomly think to call and ask if anyone had booked a room. I was told some guests had but me and FH had not. I was confused saying that in our contract a room should have been booked for us. The coordinator went on to tell me yeah usually we book you a suite but the one on your floor is under renovation so we can’t give it to you. I responded that’s fine have me on a different floor OR just give me any room. She than implied that I was wrong for even thinking I should have a room (even though it is in our contract). We move past it. NOW with still 2 weeks left to book a room for the block and GM calls and is told there are no more rooms left in the hotel! My FH calls and they tell him oh we only reserved 10 rooms for you (they knew we were having a 200+ guest list as it was in our contract). After another long phone call and getting passed around we find out there is still rooms in the hotel but the coordinator never added more rooms to our block after the first 10 filled (their policy is to hold 10 at a time). No one working all weekend can fix it. And we have to make yet another phone call to this horrible women. I feel like this should be the easiest part of the hotel room but it has literally been so stressful. Unfortunately we can’t pick another hotel at this point, and realistically it is the only one in the area that doesn’t come with a giant per room price tag. We also found out today that we should have any guests (ourselves included) let the hotel know if they are checking in after the wedding or else they may give our rooms away that day. Like come on you know the exact time of my wedding so you have to know we won’t be arriving at by 5 pm in the middle of our ceremony. Just needed a good vent. I think I get so mad because of how I was treated by the coordinator from the start. Anyone else have a hard time with hotel blocks?

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Latest activity by Michelle, on February 11, 2020 at 12:19 AM
  • Jessica
    Expert October 2019
    Jessica ·
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    Wow I feel ya for sure. That's a super sucky situation. I have two different blocks at two different hotels at different price points for my guests. The first was easy. The second it took me a month to get ahold of the manager and calling about 6 or 7 times. Now that I have gotten a hold of him. I have his cell phone number and it's a lot easier.
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  • Wendy
    Super August 2021
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    Wow this is so frustrating!!! Is there anyone you could complain about her with?? I’m a big reviewer and is definitely leave reviews everywhere about them!! That’s ridiculous!
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  • Rockie
    Devoted June 2019
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    Part of me wants to put in a complaint, but part of me wants to wait until after the wedding in case she finds out hahah
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  • Rockie
    Devoted June 2019
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    That is a good idea! Should have posted about this months ago haha. That would atleast have gave me a back up
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  • Wendy
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    You are far more patient than I am... the second problem I would have made a complaint... if I’m bringing them $$ why are they acting like they’re bothered! It pisses me off.. I’m one to speak my mind, calmly and very professional but if I’m not happy they’ll know.. I mean at this point what else can she do if she finds out??
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  • Rockie
    Devoted June 2019
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    You have a very good point! Like I am helping you make more money by having guests book here.
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  • Rebecca
    Master August 2019
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    I have had the worst problems with hotels, too, I'm so sorry.

    I contacted hotels through the blocking app, here, got almost no responses. Finally emailed a few, got nearly no responses. CALLED several, got only a few to email me back. EMAILED AGAIN (FH used our email this time)... got ONE response, and it was for an absolutely terrible deal and not at all what we had discussed.

    What is it with hotel sales people? Do they not WANT to sell the rooms?


    And I would 100% complain, if I were you, particularly if they are not honoring the contract.

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  • Rockie
    Devoted June 2019
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    It’s crazy to me! It really can’t be that hard to notice if rooms are filling up and add more. It’s their specific job! Meanwhile my venue (also caterer) gets backs to me within a few hours with even the silliest little question. I may just try to call the corporate office to tomorrow and see if they can help me open more rooms and let them know how unpleasant this has been.
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  • ASMini914
    Super September 2019
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    Hotel blocks have been a problem for me too... I have 2 at slightly different price points. At the main one, ive had the person I was working with randomly quit, and I’ve had guests let me know the block is full and then had to reach out to them to add more.

    The second hotel wouldn’t respond to me for a month and then my contact was fired and it took weeks for them to bring someone else in. So annoying.
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  • Courtney
    Master December 2019
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    I worked in a hotel in college and our sales rep all but ignored weddings. The money is with the large groups booking conference rooms, renting equipment, and catering. That's much more revenue then a few discounted guest rooms. Plus many sales managers don't feel like dealing with a potentially rowdy group of people.

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  • Rebecca
    Master August 2019
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    Then they shouldn't offer blocks.
    My favorite was the hotel that finally replied, clearly didn't remember or bother to find the person who had spoken with me, and so offered me a block that had nothing to do with my needs and requests.
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  • Courtney
    Master December 2019
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    Oh I totally agree with you. We got lucky with our hotel block. I called about 6 hotels in the are to get information and only about 3 responded to me. It wasn't until a month after we signed our contract that a couple more called me back and "would be happy to host us". Ummmm....I called you like 6 weeks ago...

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  • Rockie
    Devoted June 2019
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    I feel like that’s not an excuse to ignore customers or talk down to grown adults. I will probably have close to 30 rooms at the end of the day and all they have to do is answer phone calls and add rooms to the block when they run out. If you don’t want to do your job don’t offer it to weddings
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  • M
    Dedicated February 2020
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    My hotel was terrible. I'm glad that its not just been us! (But sorry you had such problem)
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