Showing posts with label service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label service. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

To hotels, an open letter on improving service


Few areas of improvement:

1. Buffet. Eating after 9pm means you get heavily over cooked food. That has been simmering on the heaters.

You will have more diners if you give us a chance to server ourselves cold food and heat in a microwave.

I know this is a big change so you could start with 1 microwave and a few dishes like boiled vegetables and a chicken.

And can retain the heaters, just keep some off the heaters and a small sign saying ~

"For those who don't want food from the heaters : cold food, reheat in microwave ". I have been eatin out after the first day. Luckily many places around. I have been enjoying the cold breakfirst parts and deserts at night.

2. Room staff. I took an extra 'key' when I forgot my own, using that for the electricity. I remove the key from the holder when I leave the room, so it does not waste, but after cleaning they leave it inside.

Also I leave towel on rack but its still changed. Is the sign in the bathroom forgotten?

Otherwise all staff are very polite and helpful.

3. Business center : would be nice to keep an electric strip on top of desk to easily recharge laptop and an extra LAN cable - WIFI is okay but LAN is 4x faster.

4. Water. You lament the waste of laundry but have no problem with plastic? So many plastic bottles. Why not have water filters so we can refill our bottles. That will mean some loss in revenue, but even a 3% increase in room should offset that.

And you can then use that as a marketing and CSR selling point.

Friday, August 7, 2009

bad end - Silver Star hotel, Palolem, Goa

1 star rooms and good food on the beach. Went off season (22nd July 2009 to 23rd) staff was helpful. Plain room - tv, western style loo. No soap, toilet paper, or hot water (but you can get most essentials at the shops 400 meters away). Owned by two brothers one of who I spoke to and seemed quite friendly.
 
Enjoyed my stay except - I was moving in to the Lalit Intertcontinental with my wife but wanted some clothes laundered. They agreed to clean them. When I checked out I did not ask for help and no one came forward to help with my 3 bags.
 
Realized the next day that I had the room key so I went immediately and dropped it off. All the staff was around the TV - slow days.
 
When I came back for my clothes on the 25th the other brother was there was he was not very nice. Said I owe him a days rent cause I had the room keys! I told him walking away with room keys is a common problem - that is why some star hotels have the paper or electronic keys now that can be easily replaced in house at a low cost.
 
He said how are they to know if I checked out or took the key along cause I meant to come back!
 
I reminded him : when I checked out I informed the staff that I was checking out, settled my bill and then left.
 
Then he started calling me a beggar and other obscenities, when I told him to shut up and cussed him one of his staff flew at me and had to be stopped by another.
 
Sad experience - will make me more wary of these low budget places in the future.
 
Regards
Tushar Kapila

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