okay well, pretty much i got unlucky as fuck on this one, and theres nothing i can do about it, but i strongly suggest those of you who have booked with marriot to check up on your reservation, cause they FUCKED me.
basically back in december i think? it was in december if the PP dates were announced by then, and im pretty sure they were, but dont quote me.
anyways, i called and booked the hotel at marriot midtown. i gave them my credit card number and all, they said everything was cool, they gave me my confirmation number, what else was there to worry about?
well so yesterday my friend wanted to know what hotel we were staying at cause he was going to go, so i decided id go and check my reservation while i was at the site and see if he would get the same rates as me. so i punched in my reservation number, and, wait, my reservation is cancelled!?!
okay so i said, well there must be some kind of explanation for this. i call up marriot reservations, and they say that the reason my room was cancelled was because i had no credit card ever put on the account. the thing is i am 100% POSITIVE absolutely no doubt, that i gave that woman a credit card number to reserve my room with. it turns out the woman that originally booked my reservation, did not put the credit card on my reservation file, or account or what ever. so i call up the manager to the hotel, and ask if i can just get my original rates back for the room, which were 169 a night. she says, no. the only thing i can do now is pay 239 a night instead of 169, which is lame. i asked her what i was supposed to do, how the fuck do i get the bad end for the front desk's mistake? she said that they would have sent me an email, i told her that they never gave me an email, she told me that sometimes they dont ask for email addresses unless i ask them to. she eventually just came out and said its my word against theirs and that i have no proof that i gave them a credit card number, which is true, because the idiot that i talked to and gave my credit card number, just never put it down on anything.
what the fuck!?
although this is their fault, i probably could have prevented this by checking up on the reservation, instead of waiting 6 months to check it. i take some responsibility for this, but what they did was still bullshit. they could have given me my original rates back, but the manager i talked to did not seem to care at all, and just basically said pay the new rates for the room, because we dont give a fuck if we made a mistake.
but i was just letting some fellow prog-powerers know that you NEED to check your reservation, especially with marriot, and make sure you dont get fucked like me!
now i have to pay like uh, 70 dollars more a night? its split between 5 of us, so its not near as bad, but that 70 dollars a night could have been spent on other stuff for the trip, cds, shirts, tickets, plane tickets, food...
go to marriot.com right now and check your reservation, dont let them fuck you last second when you get to atlanta! you dont wanna go to your hotel and be short on dough, or it be full because they sold your rooms to other people.
this is definitely a lesson learned for me, ill be on top of this shit next year, wont happen again.
basically back in december i think? it was in december if the PP dates were announced by then, and im pretty sure they were, but dont quote me.
anyways, i called and booked the hotel at marriot midtown. i gave them my credit card number and all, they said everything was cool, they gave me my confirmation number, what else was there to worry about?
well so yesterday my friend wanted to know what hotel we were staying at cause he was going to go, so i decided id go and check my reservation while i was at the site and see if he would get the same rates as me. so i punched in my reservation number, and, wait, my reservation is cancelled!?!
okay so i said, well there must be some kind of explanation for this. i call up marriot reservations, and they say that the reason my room was cancelled was because i had no credit card ever put on the account. the thing is i am 100% POSITIVE absolutely no doubt, that i gave that woman a credit card number to reserve my room with. it turns out the woman that originally booked my reservation, did not put the credit card on my reservation file, or account or what ever. so i call up the manager to the hotel, and ask if i can just get my original rates back for the room, which were 169 a night. she says, no. the only thing i can do now is pay 239 a night instead of 169, which is lame. i asked her what i was supposed to do, how the fuck do i get the bad end for the front desk's mistake? she said that they would have sent me an email, i told her that they never gave me an email, she told me that sometimes they dont ask for email addresses unless i ask them to. she eventually just came out and said its my word against theirs and that i have no proof that i gave them a credit card number, which is true, because the idiot that i talked to and gave my credit card number, just never put it down on anything.
what the fuck!?
although this is their fault, i probably could have prevented this by checking up on the reservation, instead of waiting 6 months to check it. i take some responsibility for this, but what they did was still bullshit. they could have given me my original rates back, but the manager i talked to did not seem to care at all, and just basically said pay the new rates for the room, because we dont give a fuck if we made a mistake.
but i was just letting some fellow prog-powerers know that you NEED to check your reservation, especially with marriot, and make sure you dont get fucked like me!
now i have to pay like uh, 70 dollars more a night? its split between 5 of us, so its not near as bad, but that 70 dollars a night could have been spent on other stuff for the trip, cds, shirts, tickets, plane tickets, food...
go to marriot.com right now and check your reservation, dont let them fuck you last second when you get to atlanta! you dont wanna go to your hotel and be short on dough, or it be full because they sold your rooms to other people.
this is definitely a lesson learned for me, ill be on top of this shit next year, wont happen again.
