Re: [89attendees] This hotel needs to rated on TripAdvisor

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 05 March 2014 10:22 UTC

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Interesting... people who do reviews should probably note that your
experience seems to depend heavily on where you are. I have to say the West
Wing rooms are above average by London-hotel standards, which means well
below the world average, but still, not terrible.


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz
<rgm@labs.htt-consult.com>wrote;wrote:

>
> On 03/05/2014 09:53 AM, Jethanandani, Mahesh wrote:
>
>> Stewart Bryant asked the question in the elevator - who is having to take
>> showers with cold water. At least half if not more said they were. That is
>> after I have had problems with the room being very hot, with sink getting
>> clogged and the room not getting cleaned till late in the evening.
>>
>>
>> I am not even discussing breakfast.
>>
>> I want to start a petition to post your experience of this hotel on
>> TripAdvisor.
>>
>
> I suspect our experiences are all over the map.
>
> My showers are too hot, and I LIKE hot showers.
>
> I have encountered sinks like this in Sweden and Finland and have figured
> out how to keep them open to drain properly.
>
> I have a cold and had to turn my room temp up and thanks to earlier
> comments here, i got it figured out quickly.
>
> I was in my room late morning and had to put out the 'do not disturb' sign
> so that the cleaning people left me alone.  They came around sometime
> between 1 - 2.
>
> So perhaps it is which tower (I am in west) and such as to how you would
> rate this hotel.
>
> Oh, and I have EU, UK, and US power outlets all working.  Two ethernet, of
> which one works.  WiFi signal is weak.
>
> I am happy here.
>
>
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