UPDATE - The ability to view reviews in back up, if you want to invest in the time to read the…read morethread, do so. As I have said before, this review has always strictly been about the experience of the lack of customer service from the property manager, NOT the condition of the cabin.
POST FROM - The Treehouse on Aspen Facebook:
The Treehouse on Aspen has been the victim of bullies. A group of renters who rented online for OCTOBER somehow, showed up in January. When shown the online reservation form, they insisted that they never stayed at the cabin in October. A call to the housekeeper determined that no one had come on the weekend they had reserved. Unfortunately, the Treehouse was already rented for the weekend they showed up for as it is a very popular rental. A sheriff was called to remove the disgruntled non-renters from the property and protect the current renters. A full refund was given to the non-renters even though under the terms of agreement that was not necessary. The owners also personally contacted the person who made the booking, hoping to ease the situation that could have been a simple mistake when they booked online. Instead, the person who booked the cabin refused to speak with the owners, and the friends have launched an online bullying campaign against the Treehouse. On Yelp,on Facebook, and on their personal pages they are attempting to ruin the reputation of a house they have never stayed in and the owners with whom they refused to talk to. It is a shame that some choose to use the power of the Internet to bully, harass, and otherwise defame innocent parties. We are currently investigating whether this can be pursued legally for slander as we do have their October reservation, and none for January.
I do wish to thank all of those who have been our guests and enjoyed the Treehouse. I'm sorry that any of you have to be subjected to the immaturity, vindictiveness, and spite of an unfortunate group of people who have chosen to turn a mistake into a vendetta rather than work with the owners to resolve it. I have decided to put the Reviews back on for the benefit of those who actually stayed in our cabin, and hope that they do not become even more vulgar.
No matter what issues they may have had with the property manager, their refusal to speak with the owners who only wanted to make things better and destroy the business of said owners, is extremely sad and speaks volumes of their own character. Thank you all for all the good times with the Treehouse!
****MY RESPONSE
The power of social media -
I normally don't drag things out, but because the property manager herself posted with her personal profile lacking empathy of the situation (plus the donut comment? - see review and thread) and still defending her behavior - it just isn't right. Yes it did result to anger, yes it did make our blood boil, it's like dealing with a bigot who just DOESN'T get it, now we're "bullies" because we posted an HONEST review from OUR perspective - welcome to the internet, don't get in it unless you're ready to handle the good and the bad. Negative honest reviews online are not equal to online bullying.
Majority of people from our group stayed in that cabin in 2012 so in fact we have stayed in that lovely spacious cabin, that's why we were extremely disappointed with the mistake. Disgruntled- we weren't "disgruntled" until the property manager drove off. Think about it, you're trying to figure out what happened in the situation, and the person you have to work with on this decides to angrily drive away? How would you feel? Glad Sherif Brandon was there to mediate the situation. Slander? We're not lying, we never said the house was bad, we never said the house was dirty, unlivable, etc. My review is purely on the experience that we had with said property manager.
I only brought this to Yelp because the our reviews were deleted, as a consumer, I feel everyone should know both good and bad experiences. It seems to be that they NEVER received a negative comment until now and clearly don't know how to go about properly handling it.
Our refusal to speak only occurred after we were literally insulted by the property manager via social media. This has been the most exhausting thread I've ever been involved with, but I guess what's done is done and some people just refuse to recognize personal opinions and experiences. Mericuh.