I had booked our room on booking.com back in July 2021. I was given the name of this hotel by a colleague from where I work. She told me her and her husband had stayed there in the past and loved it and said it would be a great place to spend our honeymoon. I explicitly told the girl working the front desk at the hotel when I called to confirm the booking, that I needed a room close to the main entrance and did not want a room down any long hallway or upstairs due to me having some mobility issues. My wife and I got married on October 16th and we arrived at the hotel the very next day in the afternoon.
The first thing that gave me a shudder as I turned into the parking garage in our Mazda 6 was that underneath the hotel where the parking garage is located, was seeing hundreds of spider webs and over a dozen various bird nests all spread out in the garage. I kept telling myself "Don't look up, don't look up" and also told my new wife the same thing. There were spiders on the ceiling, on the cement columns with webs draped all over the security cameras. The spider nests were all up inside the lighting fixtures as well as on the walls of the garage and also on the ground where the parking curbs are located and I found this to be very, very disturbing due to the lack of care.
Once we loaded our luggage onto the handling carts, we got buzzed in and rode the elevator up to the lobby. We checked in and then were told by the General Manager who just happened to be there, that our room was not available, but that she had moved us much further down the hall and said to us "Oh, but I gave you a much larger room with a king size bed for the same price". The room that I had booked was the very same room with the same size bed that she moved us too. We looked at her with astonishment and I replied "Look, I booked the room right next to the front desk and I don't want to walk further than I need to due to my mobility issues". She just looked at me and said nothing.
The front clerk apologized instead of her and handed us our key cards and we proceeded to our room. We got in and the first thing I noticed was a stain on the carpet. The bathroom had a Jacuzzi type bathtub. Now, what got me was all of the pictures from the hotel's website never showed the tub with the jacuzzi-type jet nozzles located in the bathroom. From the pictures, it looked the tub was in the middle of the room. Now the bathroom itself was very nice with a beautiful sink with Kohler fixturing the mirror had soft lighting.
My wife wanted to take a bath and try the "jacuzzi". There were no roses in the bath tub as pictured from their marketing picture that had showed on their website. Not even a bottle of champagne either or a welcome basket congratulating us on our new marriage and for choosing their hotel to spend our honeymoon at.
As the tub was filling up, I noticed black stains underneath the surface of the tub. I just shrugged my shoulders and went to go unpack. I then heard my wife cry out loud and I came hobbling back into the bathroom and to my horror, she got hit in the face with pieces of black chips that spewed out of the jet nozzles. As I was helping her step out of the tub, I also noticed black mold in the grout. The GM never told us why she had switched our room.
Once we got dressed we went back to the front desk and complained about what happened. I told the front desk person and the GM who was still there that we wanted our money back. "This is not what I had paid for" I said. The GM just stared and said she couldn't give our money back due to the money goes into some sort of corporation, but that she would get us a new room instead. The stink of it all is that she didn't even apologize for what happened and for the inconvenience.
From that Sunday (10-17) until Thursday (10-21), we were forced to take "sponge baths" from the bathroom sink. What was suppose to be a fun and amazing honeymoon was anything but and ruined "the mood". My wife bitched her out and just to shut my wife up, first offered a bottle of wine to quiet my wife down. The GM is an imposter and I'm not going to stop until we get all our money back.
Now, let's talk about the very small bedroom with the king size bed. This was a total joke. The bed was absolutely the worst bed we've ever slept in. It felt like padding over a cement crypt. Their housekeeping also missed two empty pop cans left over from the last guest in the bedroom. Oh and get this, one of the the GM's selling points was " And we don't even charge an $18 resort fee like other places do" That's because Mill Creek isn't a resort but a very old hotel with rotting plumbing, stained carpeting, poorly paid help and an unkept, spider / bird nest infested parking garage. The GM's excuse was "Oh, I never noticed".
Lastly, the hotel's key cards for getting in and out of the place was a joke! We had to get them re-programmed at least 2-3 times a day during our stay. read more