Originally Posted by
iahphx
Strong lack of empathy coming from you.
Look, I had a similar situation come up a few years ago with travelling to France. There was a massive strike that basically shut down Paris (including almost all transit) for a couple weeks. It was going to be a huge PITA to drop myself into that situation. I had airline tickets on LEVEL and, for obvious reasons, I wanted to delay my trip as it was going to be either extremely difficult/impossible to visit Paris that week. I tried very hard to get some accomodation, but the airline was unwilling to change my ticket to go a month later. At least my tickets were cheap, only about $225 each for myself and my wife. But the airline should obviously have done better. FWIW, I still doubt I would buy another ticket on LEVEL. To me, this is no different than an airline giving you some travel flexibility when a snow storm will make your travel extremely difficult. It's something any normal human being (or company) would assist with.
Not sure what empathy has to do with this.
OP buys non flexible accommodation to save money. The cash saving is offset by increased risk. OP plans travel to a city that basically has mandatory yearly strikes, with the recent strike action being widely publicised. OP does not purchase travel insurance or otherwise offset the risk. OP attempts to shift responsibility for their poor decision making to the hotel, who have fulfilled their obligations.
The OP has hopefully learned an important lesson about decision making and risk management. This was all avoidable and largely foreseeable.