InterContinental Hotels: Priority Club & Inter-Continental Ambassador - OT: Your most changes of rooms in a stay?

Well only slightly OT...... I'm currently once again in Harare's Crowne Plaza Monomotapa (which I've taken to calling "Hotel Zimbabwe"), have been since last Tuesday and today I'm on my third room.

First room: Good enough twin room (couldn't be bothered to complain about the lack of an upgrade as they don't do status here) but I found the door to the room wasn't locking......

Second room: Mirror image of the first (well, it was next door) accept for a wobbly fridge and no facial tissues in the bathroom (which they didn't replenish).

This morning: At nine I got a call from the front desk to say they were upgrading me to a luxury suite on the top floor of the hotel.

Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying my new surroundings more than I expected but I am sat here wondering when phone call for my downgrade will come.....

Has anyone else had similar experiences?

not in a ICH hotel. but I have changed room 4 times as Marriott platinum.

I once checked into a Holiday Inn Express a mile from my home. The front desk clerk knew me and also knew I had no intentional of using the room (I was on a mattress one and didn't even pick up the keys). They apparently kept moving my room around (to suit other guests' needs) because the manager asked the desk clerk the next morning why I required SEVEN rooms before I was happy.

Never happened to me

I recently saw 4 different rooms at the IC Hanoi before they settled me into one. Reception was a mess as an international government delegation had booked the entire hotel less than 24 hours before and thrown everything into turmoil. They sent me with the bell-boy to check out the suite they wanted to put me into, and by the time I got back to say it was fine someone else had apparently blocked it for the delegation. :rolleyes:

Interesting responses. For me, the full on Platinum treatment continues....

As luck would have it (on Friday 13th), at 7PM, as I was finishing off the day's hand washing and ironing (hotel laundry service has been none functional since I arrived so hand washing and ironing has been part of my daily routine), I got a call from the assistant front desk manager to say all the suites had been booked out and could I move to a King Leisure room NOW.

So, I explained I had some clothes in soak because they were incapable of providing a laundry service and told them I'd need an hour or so. An hour and a half later, I was in my new room (fairly nice King Leisure), unpacked and ready to eat. This is room number 4.....

The hotel's restaurants close at 21:30 (and they really are desperate to close this early) so to say service was rushed would be quite an understatement.

Welcome to Hotel Zimbabwe (aka the Crowne Plaza Momomotapa).....

I have only ever asked to change room twice...

Once in CDG when on a split duty, they allocated me a room next to the lift with THE most squeaky door operating mechanism in the world... To start, under our hotel contract we should not be allocated rooms next to lifts, but on this occasion with only 6 hours in the room, i needed to sleep and was not prepared to put up with the constant squeaking. I politely asked if there was another room and was told that all rooms were full. So, I got the "Presidential Suite" for all of my 6 hours... A lovely room... But what a waste for 6 hours!

The second occasion in our crew hotel in MAN. I walked into my room to be met with a stream of water flowing from the ceiling onto the bed... Lovely room, but sleeping arrangements were a bit moist...

BBB

not in a ICH hotel. but I have changed room 4 times as Marriott platinum.

I think it is very Marriott... I was recently to Courtyard by M in Wuxi, China - that place is simply disgrace in the system. Avoid at all costs. I changed rooms about 4 times but I was still not very happy in the end. The best feature of the room was the radio :)

Radisson Edwardian Grafton, Tottenham Court Road - I regularly only accept the third room they give me, reception seem to have no idea what the rooms actually look like so if I've booked a twin room with bath (i.e. bath, not bathroom), it often takes three attempts before they can actually give me one that matches what the booking says.

Mariott Manchester (when it was a Meridien) once gave me a room that had no bed but was full of the new in-room safes they'd just had delivered.

HI Bloomsbury gave me two rooms in succession that had people in them already.

Lots more over the years - perhaps I'm just unlucky? :)

This is a big problem with hotels in Fiji. You book a particular type of room and then get whatever they can be bothered to give you on arrival. A couple of times now at the Tanoa International in Nadi, I've booked (and pre paid for) a deluxe room, been given a lower category and have then had to go back to reception to fight for what I've paid for.

Radisson Edwardian Grafton, Tottenham Court Road - I regularly only accept the third room they give me, reception seem to have no idea what the rooms actually look like so if I've booked a twin room with bath (i.e. bath, not bathroom), it often takes three attempts before they can actually give me one that matches what the booking says.

Mariott Manchester (when it was a Meridien) once gave me a room that had no bed but was full of the new in-room safes they'd just had delivered.

HI Bloomsbury gave me two rooms in succession that had people in them already.

Lots more over the years - perhaps I'm just unlucky? :)

I had 3 different rooms at IC Rialto Melbourne. On checkin my room wasn't ready, by the time I came back I was given another room (an upgrade). The upgraded suite had problems with the TV and I was upgraded again (same problems with the TV persisted in the new room, although at that point I gave up and stayed put).

Radisson Edwardian Grafton, Tottenham Court Road - I regularly only accept the third room they give me, reception seem to have no idea what the rooms actually look like so if I've booked a twin room with bath (i.e. bath, not bathroom), it often takes three attempts before they can actually give me one that matches what the booking says.

Mariott Manchester (when it was a Meridien) once gave me a room that had no bed but was full of the new in-room safes they'd just had delivered.

HI Bloomsbury gave me two rooms in succession that had people in them already.

Lots more over the years - perhaps I'm just unlucky? :)
Sorry, but what is a twin room with bath (i.e. bath, not bathroom)?

4 times at HI Baruna Bali. First Garden view room had a moldy smell that was so pungent that my GF got an allergic reaction almost immediately. Moved to another room in the same wing which had a connecting door (hate those as noise seeps through) and the same nice pungent moldy smell. No go. Then moved to an Ocean View room which was better but the a/c was on strike and finally ended up in a family suite (with locked up kids room)in a different wing which finally brought relief.

Sorry, but what is a twin room with bath (i.e. bath, not bathroom)?
Presumably a room that has a bathroom with a bathtub, as opposed to a room with a bathroom that has just a shower.

Most I had in a stay was two. Apparently a 'non-smoking' room was a difficult concept to understand during this stay.