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Old Aug 7, 2014, 11:21 am
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suite2suite
 
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Originally Posted by bubbabp
I spent 7 nights here in July after staying 5 nights at RC in Kapalua, the drop off in service was obvious and immediate. I had booked a partial ocean view suite using cash+points and DSU, upon arriving at the hotel at 4 pm I was told the room was not available yet and that they would give me a $100 resort credit to use for the 45 minutes they said it would take to get the room ready. Great, no problem, headed down to a table at the pool bar to grab lunch where I was ignored for 20 minutes while attempting to make get the attention of someone who may have worked there as it was tough to even identify them since they wear no uniforms. I didnt receive the phone call that my room was ready for over another hour and was led to a ground floor suite that pretty much sat right on the pool deck and walkway to Morimotos, in other words there was no privacy whatsoever. I asked to switch to a higher floor but no other suites were available, so they offered to comp me a cabana at the pool for the week and refund the DSU certificate. Seemed like a good deal as the cabanas typically cost $200 per day and include lunch. Except these were apparently not the normal cabanas and they included no lunch and not much service either as I sat there for over an hour one day before someone came over. 3 weeks later I am still trying to contact the property to refund the DSU which they had promised. Service over the rest of the stay was hit or miss with a lot more misses then a property of this class should have. Place was very tranquil bordering on cold & dull with very little indication that you were actually in Hawaii. As a gold passport member staying in $1200 a night room for $150 + points I was fairly annoyed by all of this, if I had been paying the standard rate I probably would have left after the first night.
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Let's see.

You got $100 because you waited for your Suite to be ready....

You got a Cabana for the whole week because you wanted a Suite on a higher floor and the Andaz didn't have one.
You would have liked the Cabana to include a free lunch and were somewhat disappointed that this Cabana didn't come with it.

You were promised the return of your DSU because you did not like the Suite on the ground floor mainly because it didn't have enough privacy.

Is there anything else you think the hotel should have done for you?

It seems to me Andaz did more than it should have to accommodate you.
It certainly did not have to return your DSU.
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