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Hotel Willis Lodge

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Hotel Willis Lodge

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  • Pay/Satellite TV
  • Airconditioning
  • Ensuite (Private Bathroom)
  • Breakfast

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Not the Best

by TotalTraveller39201205 (prior to 01/07/2010) As a OTHER
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We had a party of 6 staying in Wellington for a wedding and had arranged to arrive after hours to find that one of the rooms reserved for us was not what we asked for at all and the other room was impossible to find altogether. The after hours instructions mentioned a room number that was not written on the room door, and had no correlation to the numbers of the rooms next to it. We had to phone the after-hours number to try and clear up the confusion only to get an extremely grumpy man acting as if it was somehow our fault. He then blamed somebody else for the mistake, said it was nothing to do with him and refused to help arrange a different room (for the one that was incorrectly booked). He suggested we should just keep asking at the front desk the following day to see if a larger room had become available! He reminded me of Basil Fawlty. The hotel never responded to an email I sent outlining these points either, if they had I probably wouldn't have bothered writing this review. It was a real shame, marring an otherwise perfect Wellington weekend. I must agree with the previous review though that the cleaning staff were absolutely lovely.

  • Advertiser8964786456576 replied prior to 01-07-2010

    We definitely messed up as to the instructions left out for your late arrival. For that we can only apologise!! We can also only apologise for the "grumpy" behaviour of our staff on the evening, we can only put it down to the "early or late hour" (am), as you may have it. As we were fully booked and everybody had already checked in by the time you arrived, his hands were tied and there were no options available to him on the night to even attempt to sort out your accommodation requirements. He did offer that, if there were any cancellations the following day, perhaps we could arrange a room change, however, nobody approached Reception on this issue over the remaining two days of your stay. If you had we may have been able to show you your booking confirmation showing the room configuration that was booked. I checked all correspondence and the booking confirmation the following day and what we confirmed by e-mail was exactly the room configuration we had reserved for you. As nobody from your party referred to the supposedly incorrect room configuration again we thought you must have checked your booking information and realised that what was confirmed to you by e-mail was in fact what we had provided. We can only assume that somewhere in the booking process a misunderstanding between what was presumed booked and what was confirmed as booked must have occurred. The booking requirements did change four times in a matter of 48 hours from one room for 3 people to two rooms for 5 people and then finally to one room for 3 people and a two bed roomed unit for 3 people. This was confirmed in our e-mail to the New Zealand e-mail address. I have re checked all correspondence relating to this booking and your confirmation confirms a Queens Quarters and a Queen Roo, as provided! We are glad that there was a positive aspect to your stay. Thank you for the positive comments, the girls in Housekeeping really appreciate them. Finally, I would like to finish by saying that had we received an e-mail from you we would most definitely have responded. It has taken some time for us to source the correspondence as the booking was made in December and the booking was no longer current in our system. We endeavour to make every guest feel at home here at Hotel Willis, sometimes we fall short, for that our apologies.

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318 Willis Street
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Wellington Wellington
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