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Complaint Review: Four Points Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport - Romulus Michigan
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8800 Wickham Road Romulus, 48174 Michigan, U.S.A.
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Four Points Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport Ripoff Bad management and planning - unwilling to solve problems or follow through with anything promised Romulus Michigan
I am writing this due to our organization's ongoing experience with the Four Points Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport. At this point, we are still unable to get anything resolved by anyone at that establishment.
The American Birding Association is a non-profit organization that coordinates and provides educational birding workshops in North and South America through the Institute for Field Ornithology. The ABA also provides conferences, conventions and tours for their 20,000+ members .
In December 2003 we sent out a request for proposals for a 2004 workshop to hotels in the Detroit area. The Four Points Sheraton in Romulus, MI responded with a reasonable offer so we signed a contract with them at the end of December. The actual workshop was not until August 30, 2004 - so quite a bit of time would pass between when the contract was signed and when the workshop took place. This is a normal time frame for all of our workshops.
In July 2004 I contacted the Four Points Sheraton with our rooming list, food and meeting space requirements per our contract agreement and was told that our contact person Tami Paulson was no longer working there. The new contact was Emily Nasibeh who is the Director of Sales and despite numerous calls, faxes and emails, I could not get her to respond or confirm our group's stay. The staff at the Sheraton was rude and uncooperative; once when I called the phone rang and rang and no one answered it. When I hung up and called back, the person who answered the phone picked it up and said, What!
Emily's attitude bordered on hostile, and she kept telling me she'd call me back and then did not. I was fed up with the whole situation, so on August 20th I contacted Tammy James-Zemla who also works in Sales, and threaten to book another hotel. On August 23rd, the week before the workshop started, I finally received responses from both Emily and Tammy and was told that everything was set-up and ready to go.
I faxed our corporate credit card information on August 25th to pay for the group's stay and emailed Emily to let her know that it had been sent.
On August 30th while the group was at the hotel, I faxed some last minute information to the instructors and noted on the cover sheet that it was very important that they receive it. When one of the instructors asked if it came through, he was told nothing was sent.
When the group went to checkout of the hotel on August 31st, they were told that the rooms were not paid for. One of the instructors, Jon Dunn, had to use his own personal credit card to pay the bill, which he was not happy about. The group also had problems getting the breakfast that was supposed to be provided by the hotel at the time it was supposed to be served and it delayed the workshop and their travel plans.
I called the hotel later that day to find out what the problem was and could not get a straight answer from anyone. In fact, they didn't even have a record of Jon Dunn staying there and kept telling me they did not charge his credit card. I spoke to the Front Desk Manager, the assistant Desk Manager, the General Manager and was eventually sent back to Emily, the Director of Sales, to try to figure out what happened.
Everyone gave me a different story - Denise, the assistant Front Desk Manager told me that all the paperwork was still in Emily's office and had not been put into the computer. Emily told me that someone at the front desk had erased the information that she had put in, the Front Desk Manager Stacy told me that some of the rooms had been paid for with SPG Award Points, but could not figure out whose points were used or how they were credited, and the General Manager said that he wanted to help get things resolved, but then passed the problem back to Denise & Emily.
So far nothing has been resolved and as it stands now, we're still going to be charged for the mediocre stay although no one can tell me exactly how much our credit card will be charged.
This whole situation has caused quite a problem with both of our instructors for the workshop, has cost many hours of our staff time, money in long distance phone bills, and it makes us look really bad to our workshop participants. Since I am in charge of the logistics for our workshops, it also looks really bad for me and my job is threatened because of it. We've run 9 successful workshops this year and have never had problems with any hotel like we've had with the Four Points Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport.
We are planning 17 workshops for 2005; because of the problems we had and due to the inability to get them resolved despite numerous attempts, we will not be sending our workshop groups to any Sheraton's in the future. We will also discourage our other tour groups and leaders from using the Sheraton hotels for any of their functions.
Elissa
Colorado Springs, Colorado
U.S.A.
The American Birding Association is a non-profit organization that coordinates and provides educational birding workshops in North and South America through the Institute for Field Ornithology. The ABA also provides conferences, conventions and tours for their 20,000+ members .
In December 2003 we sent out a request for proposals for a 2004 workshop to hotels in the Detroit area. The Four Points Sheraton in Romulus, MI responded with a reasonable offer so we signed a contract with them at the end of December. The actual workshop was not until August 30, 2004 - so quite a bit of time would pass between when the contract was signed and when the workshop took place. This is a normal time frame for all of our workshops.
In July 2004 I contacted the Four Points Sheraton with our rooming list, food and meeting space requirements per our contract agreement and was told that our contact person Tami Paulson was no longer working there. The new contact was Emily Nasibeh who is the Director of Sales and despite numerous calls, faxes and emails, I could not get her to respond or confirm our group's stay. The staff at the Sheraton was rude and uncooperative; once when I called the phone rang and rang and no one answered it. When I hung up and called back, the person who answered the phone picked it up and said, What!
Emily's attitude bordered on hostile, and she kept telling me she'd call me back and then did not. I was fed up with the whole situation, so on August 20th I contacted Tammy James-Zemla who also works in Sales, and threaten to book another hotel. On August 23rd, the week before the workshop started, I finally received responses from both Emily and Tammy and was told that everything was set-up and ready to go.
I faxed our corporate credit card information on August 25th to pay for the group's stay and emailed Emily to let her know that it had been sent.
On August 30th while the group was at the hotel, I faxed some last minute information to the instructors and noted on the cover sheet that it was very important that they receive it. When one of the instructors asked if it came through, he was told nothing was sent.
When the group went to checkout of the hotel on August 31st, they were told that the rooms were not paid for. One of the instructors, Jon Dunn, had to use his own personal credit card to pay the bill, which he was not happy about. The group also had problems getting the breakfast that was supposed to be provided by the hotel at the time it was supposed to be served and it delayed the workshop and their travel plans.
I called the hotel later that day to find out what the problem was and could not get a straight answer from anyone. In fact, they didn't even have a record of Jon Dunn staying there and kept telling me they did not charge his credit card. I spoke to the Front Desk Manager, the assistant Desk Manager, the General Manager and was eventually sent back to Emily, the Director of Sales, to try to figure out what happened.
Everyone gave me a different story - Denise, the assistant Front Desk Manager told me that all the paperwork was still in Emily's office and had not been put into the computer. Emily told me that someone at the front desk had erased the information that she had put in, the Front Desk Manager Stacy told me that some of the rooms had been paid for with SPG Award Points, but could not figure out whose points were used or how they were credited, and the General Manager said that he wanted to help get things resolved, but then passed the problem back to Denise & Emily.
So far nothing has been resolved and as it stands now, we're still going to be charged for the mediocre stay although no one can tell me exactly how much our credit card will be charged.
This whole situation has caused quite a problem with both of our instructors for the workshop, has cost many hours of our staff time, money in long distance phone bills, and it makes us look really bad to our workshop participants. Since I am in charge of the logistics for our workshops, it also looks really bad for me and my job is threatened because of it. We've run 9 successful workshops this year and have never had problems with any hotel like we've had with the Four Points Sheraton Detroit Metro Airport.
We are planning 17 workshops for 2005; because of the problems we had and due to the inability to get them resolved despite numerous attempts, we will not be sending our workshop groups to any Sheraton's in the future. We will also discourage our other tour groups and leaders from using the Sheraton hotels for any of their functions.
Elissa
Colorado Springs, Colorado
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
verticalouie
detroit,Michigan,
United States
Emily Nasibeh....this explains it all pretty much!
#2General Comment
Wed, March 28, 2018
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Take a look thats the person you all trusted to do that job! Should check out people before you hire them! My girll is having issues with this woman ripping her off at her unlicenced home basement run Hair salon. So theres a lesson to be learned here... do not hire people like this or you will get screded every single time!
JM
Bedford,Nova Scotia,
Canada
Some suggestions for the Future
#3Consumer Suggestion
Sat, February 26, 2005
I have had some experience with group reservations and though I can't help after the fact I thought you may want to know some info for future gruop bookings. First of all even if you book a "block" of rooms as a group every room must be held in the computer by an individual reservation. Since the person in sales doesn't generally make reservations this detail is passed to a reservations department who then may have one to 5 people (for example) make the reservations...so you now have 6 people total with your credit card number making individual reservations in a speedy and hopefully accurate manner. Of course some of the guests will call on their own to use SPG points, to see if they can get an AAA discount or other discount they may be entitled to. many guests call to confirm their reservation through a 1-800 number (or call the hotel directly but being on a busy line they unknowingly get bumped to a 1-800 number) What does the 1-800 do when they see a reservation under "Jim Smith" but they can't see all the details (such as it being billed to YOUR credit card) they tell Jim to provide his credit card. That means it's up to the front desk to confirm that the credit card for every guest in your group is the correct one. This should be done for EVERY GUEST on your rooming list. So lets' say Jim Smith uses SPG points for his room. He gets the room for free but has to provide a credit card for incidentals...if the front desk is not SUPER CAREFUL as they should be they could actually (in some computer systems) replace your credit card with Jim's leaving him to pay for everyone's room!!! I don't excuse any of the difficulties you had I jsut wanted you to know that when you provide a credit card number to pay for your group it can be shuffled to 20 different people in the hotel (sales, Reservations, Front Des, Accounting) and with more hands on the card number there's more chances of mistakes being made. Generally it may be easier if you provide a credit card to GUARANTEE only. Many times you can fill out a credit authorization for the accounting dept and provide other hotels as references and pay after the event (partially) This gives you time to check the billing before you sign off on it In these cases your credit card would only be seen my sales and accounting (2 people...3 tops) OR...my final suggestion...have each guest pay for their own room then submit a reciept for re-imbursement. That way if they want to use their SPG points or AAA discount or coupons they can and you may end up savinga bit of money on the room. You can even specify that the block of rooms be held for individual call in where your guests are responsible for booking their own rooms (that way they can make their own special requests...non-smoking, two beds, low floor etc) and you wouldn't be charged for any people who didn't show up. hope this helps in the future
