Horrible service, decent location
This place was insanely disappointing for the Marriott brand, and we will be following up through every avenue we can find to alert them to this fact.
When we arrived, we were put in a room that had not been adequately cleaned. We had started to unpack when we realized that there were newspapers and notes around the room. We called the front desk and they moved us to another room that was slightly larger, and we asked for a manager at this time (Friday afternoon) and were told there was not one available.
We stayed in this room one night, and then the next morning the bathroom light stopped working. We called to report it, but when we got back about six hours later it was still not fixed. We had to call again about it to be told that they were unable to fix it and that we would have to move to a third room. We packed our stuff back up and moved next door to a room with an older, louder, less effective air conditioner and no floor lamps to provide adequate lighting at night. When we asked to speak to a manager, we were transferred to a voice mail on Saturday in the early afternoon.
This room had no major problems, but the next morning we received a list of charges with no sign of apology for the inconvenience of moving rooms twice due to hotel fault. Now, if we were just picky about the bad decorations or strange smell in the third room I can see not doing anything about it, but when your own cleaning staff miss major articles in cleaning a room and then your wiring mysteriously stops working, that's the time to step up and offer some other consolation aside from a different room.
Now, perhaps it's the six years of customer service my wife and I have between us, but there's one more hugely frustrating issue with this hotel: nobody took ownership of the problems. I can only assume that the lower level staff who were there in the managers' absence had no authority to make changes in the course of serving customers, but if you're going to leave no manager for three consecutive days, especially a weekend, in a business that is inseparably linked to hospitality, you may want to consider training them and/or authorizing them to make billing decisions that will ensure future business and prevent bad reviews. I hope the managers understand what they did wrong in ignoring their guests.