Originally Posted by
jibi
...and it doesn't seem that the OP has any intention of returning and providing the "a few days later..." story. Yet another fly by posting on FT that spirals out 30 pages with no involvement from the OP. Someone should contact a TV production company and pitch a "Stories from FT" idea.
The OP has been an FTer longer than most people posting in this thread and replies to posts to some degree. That is not usually a way to get categorized as a "fly by posting" type.
Luxury hotel or not, hotels at this price level most certainly shouldn't be starting things off on the wrong foot with guests by assigning rooms with clogged bathroom drains and then ending the "service recovery" attempt with an eviction of the guest. Hotel fail.
Originally Posted by
craz
I could imagine if the OP and or his wife comes from a middle to high caste level back in India that in fact that may have resulted in how they spoke to the underlings (low class) employees when they didnt get what they wanted when they wanted it. Been around too many of those arguments in my life. It might have worked back in India but not outside of it
Discussing the FTer's ethnicity (based on a name) to try to explain a situation and assign blame to (or otherwise disparage) the FTer on the basis of an ethnic name/ethnicity seems like a form of racism, no better than caste-ism. Hitherto, no one brought up that perhaps the OP got assigned a bad room because of possible racism on the part of the hotel employees/owner. Did you consider that too? I didn't even consider that possibility until this hour -- and I'd rule it out absent material indication of that sort -- for a variety of reasons including because it seemed like the hotel was making an equitable attempt at a service recovery after being flagged down by the guest for having assigned sub-par accommodations from the start. Why try to paint a picture of blame upon the OP based on ethnicity/national origin? As someone with plenty of Indian and other Asian relatives -- none of whom believe in any Orientalist-characterized caste system and most of whom live in the US or other OECD countries -- I consider the above attribution of behavior to be one based upon ethnic/national origin to be troubling.