Appaling management!
Myself and my wife arrived at the Principal in York around 2pm on the 17th December, for a one night stay which we had booked around 6 months ago for my wife's birthday using IHG points we had built up on previous trips.
When arriving at the hotel, the member of staff could not find our booking, so told us to come back after 3pm when we could check in and not to worry it would be sorted. When we went back after 3 the staff still could not find our booking so give us a free drinks voucher for the bar, which was fine we were in no rush.
A manager then approached us when we were in the bar to inform us the hotel is no longer part of the IHG group and our booking would no longer be honoured, the best they could do is give us the room at a cost of £150, which was not an option for us so close to Christmas. This manager then told us our only other option was to speak to IHG to arrange a room in another hotel. After spending over an hour on the phone to IHG they closest accommodation they could offer us was in Manchester!
We went back to speak to the manager in the hotel and unbelievably she had finished her shift and gone home without coming back to speak to us, the new manager who was left to handle the situation could not have cared less. Luckily I had not had the free drink they had offered, as if I had I would not have been able to drive the 2 and a half hours back home and would have been stranded in York, which the management in the Principal did not care about.
Both the hotel and IHG blamed each other for this situation, I have received no emails or phone calls to let me know it was cancelled and the booking was still in my app for the correct dates. The whole situation was handled terribly by the management of this hotel so please be careful you do not end up in a similar situation, and use a different hotel in
17 décembre 2022
Avis spontané