Have you ever had a hotel lose your reservation?

@stealthy (8181)
United States
September 3, 2007 11:59pm CST
I used to travel some where I used to work, it was not a regualr part of my job but came up often enough. On one trip to Boston to attend a conference where I was gong to give a paper the Shareton lost the reservation that my company's travel department had made for me and the hotel was completely booked. So they ended up putting me on a rollaway bed in the living room of a suite that the bedroom part was rented separately. They said it would all be ready by like 9 pm. Well I went out to dinner with my college professor and some of his students I knew that I hadn't seen for some time and got in close to midnight and there still was not a bed in the room. It took them another hour or so to get one. This was not a good way to start my stay there. Have you ever had any similar problems?
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@wotfpatty (2065)
• United States
4 Sep 07
I used to travel with a wrestling company (WCW) and I was always shut out of the hotels. Because I was media and staff, they would put the guys (and girls) up first, then the crew, and finally us from the magazine. Management usually stayed elsewhere. I would get there and they would tell me the place was full although I had reservations. I would have to fight like crazy to get a room and sometimes end up at a nearby place. I once had to stay with a female valet and I felt sorry because she needed to rest before the show and there I was working all night on the computer. It turned out fine. We're still friends. Once my whole family got to a vacation spot and they had given our rooms away. It was bedlam, we were 10 hours from home, hot, miserable and there was a room to be had there. Finally they found a big suite a few miles away and paid the difference. It worked out but what a hassle that was. It took about five hours of haggling and arguing to finally get a room.
@stealthy (8181)
• United States
4 Sep 07
My one time certainly pales in comparison to your experiences. It sounds like you traveled a lot more than me.
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@wotfpatty (2065)
• United States
4 Sep 07
Yeah, at one point, I was traveling for weeks at a time. I don't miss it. I love hotels actually and love to see new places but I didn't even know where I was half the time when traveling the way I was. Yuck.