Anonymous User
May 4, 2023
I booked a room for April 14 on March 17. On the evening of April 11, I received a call from someone claiming to be the hotel, notifying me that it was not convenient to check in on April 14 and asking me to add WeChat to receive the notification of inconvenient check-in (personally, I think it should be that the rooms at the Canton Fair are sold at a high price). I immediately contacted the Ctrip hotel butler online through the Ctrip APP. The next day (April 12), the Ctrip hotel butler replied online that the hotel asked to add WeChat in order to send me the check-in password, and did not say that I could not check in.
On the afternoon of April 13, I was worried and confirmed the check-in information with Ctrip again through the Ctrip 95010 customer service phone. Ctrip replied and confirmed: There was no problem with the room check-in, and the actual room condition and layout were consistent with the pictures on the Ctrip page for this room type.
At 16:00 on the afternoon of April 14, I entered the room through the password sent by the hotel... I found that the room was very different from the picture on the Ctrip page. There was no sofa, no desk, and there was not even a stool in the whole room. The actual area of the room was about 30 square meters. I immediately contacted the hotel and was told that this was the room! I contacted Ctrip on the spot, but the problem was not solved in more than an hour...
On the evening of the 14th, I received a complaint response from Ctrip, saying that the hotel did not agree to cancel the reservation; I was shocked to hear this response. I reminded Ctrip that the hotel can cancel for free before 18:00 on the day of check-in. I had already left at 17:40, so how could I not cancel? Moreover, because the hotel did not have the promised front desk (now the front desk picture has been secretly deleted), I was forced to stand in the room and wait for processing (there was no stool, so I could only stand)!
Later, I went to the Cultural and Tourism Bureau, and Ctrip informed the hotel's response: It was indeed not the room type I booked, but an upgraded room type. Maybe we all have different perceptions of the word upgrade~
I advise everyone to keep your eyes open when booking!
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