A bad place to stay
February 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am by David FarrarMost of my “reviews” are positive. The last bad hotel review I think was in Rome in 2004.
But as a service to readers I should mention Saturday Night in the Quest on Cintra Lane. I was crashing with a friend who was staying there briefly until her new apartment was ready.
A minor gripe is that there was no table for working on – just a coffee table. So many people travel with laptops nowadays a bit of table space is necessary,
But the bed was simply horrendous. It wasn’t so much that it was a small single bed (reminded me of the university hostel ones we used to label as contraceptives), but it was so cheap and tacky. No real base, the wheels were such it moved about all night, and it was just awful. You get better I reckon in a youth hostel.
The final injury was when we checked out late (due to confusion over who was checking out). Now I have no problems with a penalty for checking out late, but they refused to compromise on charging us anything less than than an entire extra night’s fee, even though the room was still available before check in.
The receptionist was very nice and I don’t blame her as she can not alter policy. But there was no manager even available whom I could talk to.
The late checkout isn’t the biggie though. The beds are just nasty.
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February 26th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Ohhh bashing hotels, well let me add:
Kingsgate hotel in Wellington. Rock hard bed and 70′s era porn set decor, toilet didnt flush properly, and the shower was crappy. Stayed three nights and the Bed was so bad I slept on the couch for the last night – best sleep I had on that trip!
I think it was being renovated at the time, so hopefully its betetr now.
Rydges resort in Coloundra on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Craphole craphole craphole craphole. Coloundra is a hole, nothing to do nowhere to go either! Bed was rock hard (dont know what it is with me always getting hard beds!!!). Decor was crap as well, looked very industrial for $260 per night! I hear the best place to stay is Moloolaba – more accomodation choices and more bars and restaurants.
Vote:February 26th, 2008 at 10:55 am
The Quest is getting some market led therapy.
The system is working as it should.
Vote:February 26th, 2008 at 11:42 am
The worst place I ever stayed in was the Dateline in Tonga (hope it was trashed in the riots). No-one told us on check in that the rooms had just been repainted (pink) and when I say just I mean just that. Brushed against the wall and ended up looking like the Pink Panther. When we asked to change rooms they said none were available. I now know how glue sniffers feel.
Vote:February 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Quest Dunedin is just awful too.
Vote:February 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The Quest on the Terrace recently proved to be poor value for us. An “Executive Studio” had a queen bed as stated, but it was hard against two walls (no reading lamp for the person wedged against the wall) with barely enough room to squeeze around the third and fourth sides. She-who-must-be-obeyed and I do not fancy crawling all over each other at 4 AM when the objective is simply to get to the loo. Said facility was around a tight corner and up one step: you know, the one you always trip over. The “Onsite secure undercover parking” was already full when we arrived (the online booking process had not indicated that parking had to be booked separately).
We’ve always enjoyed one of the Quest properties in Christchurch. Have they got a particular problem in Wellington or is the company just getting greedy? I’ll be cautious about booking Quest properties in future.
Vote:February 26th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Quest on Redan in Melbourne (near St Kilda) – every night I saw with cobweb right over the bed, every morning I wondered if anything had fallen down.
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