Hilton HHonors - Doubletree Club Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, Shuts Down Due to Asbestos Contamination

FYI:

Doubletree Club Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, Shuts Down Due to Asbestos Contamination.


Federal and state regulators have opened investigations into the release of asbestos at the Doubletree Club Hotel in Norfolk, Virgina, the Virginian-Pilot reports. The hotel remains closed as work crews clean up contamination by the cancer-causing substance. Spokespeople with the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry confirmed the agencies have launched inquiries into the release. Neither could estimate how long those studies might take. Norfolk officials have said the contamination of the 15-story, 208-room hotel is extensive, but did not cite a possible source.

Good, this hotel was a piece of s**t and should have been shut down a long time ago.

Yikes,

Stayed there about 4 years ago.

I belive the actual day that it closed down was 02/07/03...

Yep...it has been shut down for a month. That hotel is a local joke, but you are so limited here when it comes to HHonors properties.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dbmaury:
Yep...it has been shut down for a month. That hotel is a local joke, but you are so limited here when it comes to HHonors properties.</font>

ORF airport Hilton is a fair alternative.

It's back open now, but I'm glad I searched here. Don't want to really stay somewhere that had an extensive asbestos problem as it seems this hotel did.

I stayed at the Hilton Norfolk Airport for two weeks. While the hotel is ok, it has some facilities problem and when I asked for an additional night as a Diamond member I was promptly denied, even when I said I would cancel future weeks of reservations. So they possibly saved having to deal with an extra person for 1 night in return for losing 5, 10+ nights of business. Smart.

I did cancel them and let the General Manager know and contacted Hilton via email. It's a bad experience since just a few weeks ago another Hilton property in the area put me in for a completely sold out _week_ (not just a day) because I was Diamond.

Oh well, no big deal for me. The other hotel is actually closer to where I work. Guess loyalty to Hilton didn't matter, so why bother?