Originally Posted by
Derek
I'm glad you had a good stay. The furniture was new in our room, but not made for our room, so you could barely walk between the odd mini-fridge cabinet and the bed. The room was very dark and gloomy, and did not look like it had been painted or recarpeted. Perhaps we were just unlucky, but it doesn't surprise me that your first room had a leak.
It appeared to me that the leak came from the fire sprinkler lines (my company used to have a division that sold various fire sprinkler piping products, and one of the reasons we sold the division was the huge liability claims we'd get when one of the lines leaked.) I fairly doubt that they would have renovated the sprinkler systems in the transition to HGI. I looked in the penthouse suite as well, and it appeared that the fire sprinkler line in one of the rooms of the suite was deteriorating in the same manner, based on how the ceiling looked, though it wasn't at leaking stage yet.
So yes, I would not be surprised myself if that's a chronic problem in the hotel in the next few months.