The Good
Excellent, clean Hotel. We stayed in room 1216, they must have turned the fans off for us as we did not experience the louder than TV noise from previous review!
Restaurant/Bar next door, great food and great staff. They were able to explain to us what the protesters where complaining about
The Bad
The picket Line. I fully support anyones right to protest, but not to abuse people. The first thing we encoutered when we arrived after a 6 hour drive was verbal abuse for staying at this hotel. We had no idea who these people where or what their problem was. After we had checked in, we still did not know. After we were shown to our room, we still did not know and if the people in the bar next door had not told us I still would not know today. No one in the hotel offered us an explanation, or an apology for the barage of abuse we had to endure. We felt that as we had pre-paid the hotel knew it was unlikely we would check out and therefore did not need to bother explaining anything to us!!!
It is true the hotel cannot be held responsible for what goes on outside, they do however, as the dispute is with them, have an obligation to explain to its customers why they are being screamed at.
We stayed for 3 nights, the protesters were there on Thursday and Friday, then came back for an hour at 7am on Sat morning. No sign of them when we checked out on Sunday morning.
With a bit of customer service, the 3 could have been a 5 with an acceptance of peoples right to protest
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