This really is quite a nice hotel. Everything is clean and efficient, and the rooms are comfortable and pleasant . One problem - we arrived after a five-hour freezing trip on the motorway to find that our room was like an ice-box. Other rooms were the same. When I wrote to the manager about this I was told that this is the hotel's 'green policy'. No, don't laugh. They don't like to pour too much CO2 into the atmosphere, so they don't think we will mind having a freezing cold room. Think carefully about this - they actually think it is acceptable to leave our rooms unheated until we arrive, even in the depths of winter, because THEY have decided to go green (and incidentally save on their heating bill), without telling us before we arrive. If you think that is acceptable too, then fine - great hotel. I find it absurd. I'd never go back.
Now the manager is refusing to respond to my complaint. What an attitude!
Every Premier Travel Inn I have stayed in, and there has been plenty over the years, have never had the heating on in individual rooms. I just crank it up, disappear to the bar for an hour by which time the room is warmed up.
I too am not really sure what the complaint is here - presumably you turned the heating up and the room did then warm up? Or are you saying that the room remained cold? Yes, their current policy does save on their heating bills - but anything that they can do to keep their costs down is also going to keep guests' bills down to. One of my biggest gripes with some hotel chains is that they are grossly overheated, including the public areas that I have no control over, and that this cost is being reflected in the bill I'm paying. Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with this sort of policy as long as the room then warmed up once I'd turned the thermostat up on arrival.
Well yes, I am saying that it took two hours for the room to get comfortable. Why should guests , who might be staying just the one night, have to go to the bar because their room is too cold to relax in? I don't get it. What are we actually paying for?
guests , who might be staying just the one night,
Sometimes the hotel only allocates rooms once the guests arrive ... ie they know from the computer that so many guests are due to arrive or have booked, but don't know if a guest wants a low floor, or to be as far away from the bar/restaurant as possible, or if there are several guests booked together, whether they want rooms close together or not.
So the hotel cannot heat every room just in case a guest wants that room if there is not 100% take up of rooms ... and usually the rooms are small enough that putting the heater on or turning it up makes a difference very quickly.
I had the opposite experience on Thursday night at F1 Geneva walking in to a boiling hot room and opening the window immediately and turning the heat down. The room soon became comfortable and remained that way for the rest of our one-night stay.
(a) all the public areas were overheated. So they don't mind paying to heat that volume of space. True, more people will use it, so I partially accept the point.
(b) We always give a clear indication of the sort of room we want. In general you might be right, but I don't think it would have cost them more than about 50p to heat a room for us.
Thanks for your comments.
There is a valid complaint here. You don't pay for these rooms by the hour for the time you can actually use them, so they ought to be usable as soon as you checkin. If you have to wait in the bar for a few hours you aren't getting what you paid for. And the bed will take much longer to warm up than the air. The other problem is that the British climate means that if they are left unheated for any length of time they will also get damp and that will take much longer to get right.
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