Originally Posted by
nauce
[MENTION=680784]bhrubin[/MENTION] -- I'm not quite sure how to address your blow-by-blow attack of my review (or of me as a credible individual?). Haha, probably best not to. Suffice it to say I'm not lying about my travel experiences at other StRs and the SPG portfolio more broadly. (If one knows anything about Global Services at United, I hope they can surmise that.) With that said, I sense that your last point may be true -- in that my experience may not be relevant or apply to others. I was traveling alone and was just getting away for a while; not celebrating, etc. I'm sort of a weird dude.
In any case, I do appreciate others who who have defended my review (or my right to review honestly?). (Thanks [MENTION=674967]MaldivesFreak[/MENTION] and [MENTION=48126]dmbfan222[/MENTION] and [MENTION=405504]5DMarkIIguy[/MENTION]).
If it matters, my stay *just ended*, so I'm not really sure where the assumption of me staying within 3 months of opening (or getting any kind of discounted rate) came from. Neither are true.
It sounds like others have had a great experience here, and that's good to know. Not every stay is going to be perfect, so I recognize that I may have just had an unlucky run there. (Or perhaps my stay started out on the wrong foot and that colored the rest of my experience.) In any case, I hope that my posting a different flavor of experience helps others when making their travel decisions!
My apologies for erring on the timing of your stay. I clearly missed that mark. I wrongly assumed based on the comments of some others and lumped you in with those.
I am sorry to say that that anyone’s lack of posts here on FlyerTalk (or lack of reviews on TripAdvisor) does make me question their veracity and/or perspective. While I’m sorry if that offends, there is a reason that both sites include that information. Anyone can post their thoughts on anything online, so having some sense of accuracy, perspecrive, and character helps; having many other reviews or posts helps to ascertain those qualities. Having few posts or reviews makes it much harder to ascertain. Saying one is Plat100 or even Global Services doesn’t prove that point IME, unfortunately. I know too many United GS flyers with entitled perspectives and too many SPG Plat100s who largely stay at midscale and upscale properties that give them limited perspectives, too.
As I said and I think you agree, your perspective doesn’t apply to me or to many others who might consider the StR. Your critique of food and wine prices gives you a perspective that I don’t think applies to most guests at a St Regis Resort property. It’s valid for you, but it likely isn’t valid for the overwhelming majority of such guests IMO. Your critique of the food quality at the StR stands in stark contrast to the reviews of far too many luxury travel bloggers, luxury travel agents, and a ridiculously large number and proportion of reviewers both here on FT and on TripAdvisor (with more than 50 reviews at comparably luxurious properties) for me to take your opinion as seriously as you and some others herein do.
I think it’s great that you have contributed your review and thoughts. I just don’t accept your thoughts (or anyone else’s for that matter) blindly and without consideration. You shared your perspective, and that’s great. I shared why I have problems with that perspective, and I am just as entitled to share my thoughts as you are to share yours. That we disagree is obvious. Disagreement nor questioning are not attacks,