Positives first, Spa is amazing, truly. Negatives. I paid £881 for four nights room only here to celebrate my partners 40th birthday - paid early also which shows faith on my part. Upon check in - I was told that I had to pay an extra £200 holding fee for incidentals, that would be immediately returned to my account upon check out with no waiting time - I questioned this and challenged it - I was told I must pay it end of story. Upon questioning the time scale that it would be paid back to me - I was told it would be instant as it was only a held payment and not a taken payment - this was a lie and I DO NOT LIKE LIES. Way I see it - I paid upfront - this shows faith - they demand extra money - this shows the opposite. Obviously this extra £200 out of my saved pot for this birthday celebration left a dent in it which meant having to be more careful and therefore unable to do the things we wished to do - I had hoped that given the supposed purpose of this £200 that I would be able to charge things to my room up to that value, however - even though I managed to charge the £70 spa fee to my room, any time I requested to charge drinks (incidentals are they not?) I found a payment machine thrust in my face - this happened EVERY time, meaning of course that’s its upper management policy to tell their staff to do this. Upon checkout I was informed that the £130 still owed to me would take 2-3 business days to return to my account - quite the opposite of what I was told at check in. All the management offered to do was to have a word with accounts to put a rush on it but could promise me nothing. He did also offer me an upgraded room should I stay again - I found this rather hilarious as clearly I will never stay here again. Liars do not get a chance to take more money from me. Given that money was tighter than it should have been on this very important occasion it has actually marred the entire trip. Also it’s apparent that you cannot connect the hotel tv to the internet or purchase any pay per view films - so a cheaper night in is also an impossibility. I also noticed that people with Rolexes were routinely served before other people - not a fan of snobby favouritism. All in all I cannot in good conscience recommend this hotel to anyone at all.
Very nice and modern hotel in the center of the city and close to the convention center. We stayed in much bigger since it was intended for disabled individuals. Very good breakfast included. Staff was wonderful in the front desk as well as the restaurant. The front desk staff gave us great ideas for places to visit as well as great restaurant recommendations. At the restaurant in the morning staff was kind and meeting all requests to the best of their abilities and in the being making recommendations for drinks, beers and whisky. The room was ample, clean and modern. Overall a great place to stay in Edinburgh.
Our assessment of our 3 night stay at the Waldorf was mixed. The hotel was very nice and as a Diamond member we were upgraded to a castle view room. The complimentary breakfast was very good and the front desk staff were generally helpful. We did have a problem one night with the light fixture leaking water from the ceiling. This may have been due to a rainstorm one night and staff brought a bucket to catch the leaking water. The biggest problem, however, occurred after checkout. At the time of checkout I was told that the hotel printer wasn’t working so they would email me my receipt. Since all 3 nights were paid for with HH points I asked if there was a zero balance and was told yes. Later that day I received the final bill and was charged over $1,000 on my credit card for all three nights. I immediately called the hotel and was told by in house reservations staff that my reservation had been cancelled when I didn’t show up. I reminded them that we had been staying with them the last 3 nights and had no problem at checkin on the scheduled day. In fact I confirmed our arrival time several hours before checkin. So they didn’t know what the problem was but would talk to the reservations manager when they were free. In the meantime I called the Hilton diamond desk and again was told that someone had cancelled my stay with points and it had been rebooked by someone as a cash stay and they were not sure what the problem was. My points had even been put back onto my account by someone. By now I am a bit irritated. I finally receive a call back from the hotel reservation manager who tells me that the Waldorf had a computer glitch on our arrival date and that all hotel reservations had been cancelled and had to be manually reentered by hotel staff. However, Hilton hotels have no way to make reservations using points so they made them as a cash payment. Thereby the $1,000 bill. Now glitches are bound to occur sometimes. However, all of this angst could have been avoided by telling me at checkin about the problem and I could have immediately rebooked the room using points while standing at the front desk. The hotel did ultimately reverse the charges and apologize. However. this shouldn’t happen at a property like the Waldorf.
訪訪客用戶Recently stayed at canning street. Unfortunately we left a day early as we literally had no sleep the first night we stayed there it was horrendous. The apartments are nice and clean and modern but the walls are so thin you can literally hear everything, unfortunately we stayed when someone next door was very loud until 2/3am literally stomping around and dragging furniture across the apartment. Also building works were being done over the road which was very noisy at 7am. There was also a pipe over the road which continually threw water out of it which you could non stop hear. Made a complaint to the company and just to let them know the apartment was now empty as we have left and had a very snarky reply. Shame as the apartment itself was very clean and nice. I do have videos of said noises but unfortunately cannot upload videos on here
SS5127GClizcJust returned from 2 nights at Mercure Haymarket. What a gem. Reception staff were amazing.... really helpful and friendly. Room was equipped with everything I needed and I slept soundly both nights. Quiet neighbourhood but just a short walk from all major attractions. I will definately return.
訪訪客用戶This is a rather disappointing stay. I hope we can get a proper compensation.
1. The bathroom does not have any basic toiletries, not even hand soap. We had to go down to reception to ask and was given hand lotion and told that it works as hand soap?!?
2. Breakfast is not ready at 7am. Breakfast is supposed to serve from 7 - 10am. On first morning, breakfast spread was not complete because chef came to work late. (Photo shows what was available to guests). We had to leave to catch our day tour bus so we barely ate anything. On the next day, no breakfast was served because there was issues with gas.
3. Room cleaning was not complete. Room cleaning only made the beds and refreshed the towels. The dustbins were not emptied and the toilet papers were not replenished.
This was clearly once a nicer hotel, but it's now rather shabby and needs some updates. I slept well enough and the room was spacious. Maybe it was just my room, but but the room didn't look like the photo on the website; it looked familiar but as though someone had gone in and taken out the nice things after the photo was taken. The heater needed an instruction card, sometimes we could figure out how to work it and sometimes we couldn't. The wardrobes were attached to the wall but were leaning so far forward they looked like they were going to fall over. There were only a few hangers provided, all but one of them children's size. The bathroom was what really let things down. There was a slight step up into the bathroom and the laminate was peeling off it, so quite a tripping hazard. The bath/shower was very tall and difficult to step out of - a step stool would have been a help. One day there was no warm water for my dad's shower, but then plenty for mine after and we couldn't figure out why. Then the next day despite setting the dial to warm and fiddling with it, my shower was pretty tepid. The toilet sometimes flushed better than others, which seemed to do with the looseness of the handle. There was a lot of empty space under the counter with the sink, which I think would be a good place to put a small shelf for towels and the hairdryer. The hairdryer was stored in a dresser drawer and we didn't find it until the last morning. The staff were friendly and the packaged pastries/granola bars/sweets available were handy to grab and go. Something we thought was kind of odd was that the staff would ask us to leave our keys at the desk when we went out and pick them up them we returned. The issue was that when we returned and ask for our keys, no one ever asked for any ID or to check that we were, in fact, the people staying in that room and there were new desk attendants at least once who had never seen us bit just handed over the room key without questions. You receive a discount for booking directly from their website, which was nice.