JUSTIN, front desk manager, needs big time guest relations training. I am platinum elite Bonvoy member close to my next status in terms of current travel and upcoming bookings. Every time I hit Manhattan Moxie downtown on Anne Street is the only hotel I stay at. The team knows me and it’s always fun because many of them have seen me on screen as an actress emo such as legally blonde and a night at the Roxbury and others. I don’t NEED special treatment, I just always seem to get a little extra love from the team at Moxy NYC downtown. With all the canceled flights and craziness this weekend, I ended up unable to stay and arrived at airport 6 AM today. I went on deus to see cost to have a room for less than one hour to take a quick shower before important meeting at 11 AM at the W. hotel in Union Square. AMARIS at the front desk could not have been kinder or more understanding of my situation. They had a few people check out and knew there were rooms available at about 9:30 AM. She reached out to Justin, the manager not working today. He told her to tell me to go onto deus.com. So I did. It was $95 to have the room from 9 AM to 3 PM. Since the room was not going to be available until the earliest 930 may be a little later, and I only needed the room until 10:30 AM, I asked Amaris to please ask Justin if he could give me any sort of a break on the rate. With no explanation and not even an offer to extend himself in a phone call to me directly, he just told her, “no.” Amaris was so sweet and felt terrible that nothing could be done — she isn’t wrong to feel that way.
I have a ton of points and any number of things could’ve been done and light of the circumstances both internationally with the outage, and with my recurring stays there and the great energy, I bring to the hotel and the team and recreation, their restaurant bar game room.
I think Justin should’ve done something, anything or at least reached out to me on his own since he was awake and ready to say no instead of anything else.