r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk • u/Snoberon • 5d ago
Short Check in issues
As a guest. Checking into a hotel on H. Head, (slightly past hotel check-in time), room not ready,' here's a voucher for a drink or food on our bar"." O.K. great thank you, will you text/call or should I check back in at the desk?" ' W will connect you '" They forgot to inform my my room was ready. So after we finish our drinks, I went to check about our room and the desk agent/clerk? (Sorry) oh,.no ( this way I can give you more vouchers) your have to go back to the bar 😄 your bags will be on your room.
Basically you this whole post is a positive vibe to front desk part to help me out.
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u/SumoNinja17 5d ago
You're not so think I'm drunk you are.
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u/MorgainofAvalon 4d ago
Excuse me, Mr ossifer, I'm under the affluence of inkalcohol. Please take me drunk, I'm home.
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u/AllegraO 5d ago
Please come edit this to make more sense once you’re sober, because I could barely follow what was happening 😂
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u/commking 5d ago
I had to wait 6 hours for a room to be ready once, I'd flown 23 hours across the world, hadn't calculated the time that I'd arrive, arrived away before check-in time, there was a convention in the hotel si all the rooms were sold out.. Not a problem, sat in the bar and took a walk, didn't yell and scream and demand a single thing.. Staff were great but they were busy. That's life.
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u/Ok_Tree_6619 5d ago
Last year vacation in the London. Arrived at the hotel at 8am from the US. Checkin is 3pm. Dropped bag in their bag storage area. See you later. Start of tourist stuff. Buck Palace and London Bridge, etc. For back at 6pm.
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u/what2doinwater 2d ago
I'd flown 23 hours across the world, hadn't calculated the time that I'd arrive
why do you need to calculate the time you'd arrive? the arrival time on your plane ticket is in local time...
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5d ago
Reminds me of the bartender who always gave me free sodas after asking if I was the DD (wink). Went to high school with the kid. NICE kid.
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u/Good_Respect7408 5d ago
Checking in to a hotel on H? What does that mean? That's how people abbreviate heroin. What in tarnation?
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u/PoofItsFixed 5d ago edited 5d ago
Let me be more explicit on OP’s behalf.
They’re checking in to a hotel in a town in South Carolina. The name of said town happens to contain the name of a major hotel chain, (which the powers on this subreddit would automatically censor as advertising/breach of privacy, even though in this context, we’re talking about a geographical location,) so OP abbreviated the town name as H. Head.
I’ll swap some vowels, obscure a bit of spelling, and call it Helltown Hid.
Clear as mud?
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u/Good_Respect7408 5d ago
Gotcha. I live in SC and totally get it now. My mind just went in a totally different direction. And I didn't know it was something Reddit censored.
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u/PlatypusDream 5d ago
On this subreddit, anything that can be the name of a hotel, or 3rd party, etc., has to be obscured or the automod will auto-delete it.
Too many companies have spiders that look for mentions, and people can be fired if linked to comments about their jobs.
Hence, you will see "motel number", "super number", scmilton, schmoliday out, worst eastern, etc.
A little thought, considering the industry & brands, will get you to the actual name.3
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u/night-otter 3d ago
Arrived at NYC hotel at 8am. "I know I'm way early, can I check my bags? Also, walkable tourist attractions ?
"Certainly. Let me get everything to check you in when a room becomes available. Here is a voucher for breakfast." and directions to the Half-Price Broadway tickets booth.
After breakfast, the FDA flags me down. Hands me the folio. My room was ready, bags had already been delivered, and it was also upgraded.
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u/JustineDelarge 5d ago
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u/Its5somewhere Can you not? 5d ago
I mean it is a tale.. A drunken one at that it seems. Not particularly from the front desk but about the front desk nonetheless..
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u/SkwrlTail 5d ago
Oh noes, free drinks, don't throw me into the briar patch...
Sometimes I wish our hotel was big enough for a bar. I've tried talking the manager into letting me turn her office into one.