A terminator of my long-term support to Hotels.com!
After highly supporting Hotels.com since 2013, this experience was a termination of my long-term support to Hotels.com. As a gold member, I never experienced any major issues until 16/11/2018 when I checked in My Moon hotel.
As usual, I made sure it would be a window in the room and also made this request when booking on Hotels.com. I understand that hotels might not meet my requests and it was ok as long as they gave me a notice IN ADVANCE, but ignoring the request and gave me a room that didn't meet my request or the description on Hotels.com AFTER I already checked in and Hotels.com already charged me was totally unacceptable! The hotel manager then allocated me in a down-graded hotel when I had no choice the next day.
I called Hotels.com once I had a chance and hoped that this issue would help them to improve their services, shockingly they replied "hotels do not have to reply requests and they don't have to meet the requests". If hotels don't need to reply requests that they cannot meet in advance, what's the point that Hotels.com made “special requests” available on booking form??? After on call for 1hr, the staff at Hotels.com raised her voice and started arguing with me because I agreed to change the room, Hotels.com couldn’t do any compensations… This completely enraged me rather than the issues. The replies from Hotels.com were absolutely unprofessional and totally unacceptable!!!