The_TravellerSg
Communications skills that needed to be improved.
I had 2 separate stays at this hotel one week apart and just one week you get very different level of service !In my first stay, everything was great. The hotel is unique in the sense that from 21st floor and down you are at Holiday Inn Express and 22nd floor up, you are at Voco, though under one same building, they have separate entrances and the lift lobby do not cross each other. n my 2nd stay and likewise they said I was upgraded again but then this time the view is better except when I entered my room, i felt warm and as i was rushing out, didn’t really noticed it. I came back again to my room after dinner and started to unpack and showered , and this is when I realized the room stjll remained warm. I called the reception who told me their air con temperature starts cooling at 18 deg C and asked that do i have the snow flake icon on the control. I said no and they sent someone to check who was not able to fix it. The staff mentioned he will check for available room and revert back. After some minutes , I received a call from reception if I wanted to change room which amazed me because i told her I didn’t want to change if the aircon is working but she kind of insisted she is right to ask again is it that i wanted to change room. When i said yes she said she will prepare the card and said i can pick up the new card when i am ready . This really drives me crazy as i was expecting the new card to be sent when i felt she “defended” herself by saying she just wanted to be sure how much time i need to repack my things so she can get her colleagues to send the new keys, which i said 5 minutes .The keys did not arrive in 5 minutes and when i went down, i was told the staff has just sent up the keys. It is at this point i saw the duty manager which i wanted to mentioned specifically because i realized the same manager has been checking out my profile on Linkedin 2 times and when i asked for the reason , he replied they are profiling the VIP guests which i do not feel comfortable . Anyway back to the air con issue which eventually is due to that the icon did not have snow flake sign despite being told by staff and I had to set it at 18 deg C. What made it worse is that the reception is to check on this set up and informed me but she made it sounded like i told her to wait for 20 mins before calling to inform me. Overall very bad communications skills on the team.