Guest User
April 10, 2025
I'll start with the conclusion. Some of the female staff were the worst.
The hotel was very good and some of the staff were kind, but the female staff at the check-in front desk was very rude to me and treated me badly.
First of all, there were a lot of very unscrupulous touts in front of this hotel, and since I was alone I ignored them, but at first they told me to take a motorbike taxi for a very cheap price, so I took one. After only 10 minutes of riding, they told me the fare was 1000P. I was surprised because I had heard it was 180 at first, but there were two men there who approached me, so I was scared and reluctantly paid. The men were persistent, and when I went outside the next day, they were there and talked to me, called a taxi without my permission, and took a lot of money from me by making me pay a tip that didn't belong to them.
I thought it was strange, so I consulted a female staff member at the hotel, and she laughed and said it was a scam. There were a lot of security guards at the entrance of the hotel, and when I asked them what they were doing, they had trouble hearing my English, so they laughed bitterly and said they didn't know, and tried to fool me with a handshake.
I'm still a student, so I think I paid a high price for this hotel. Despite that, I felt scared and sad and I felt awful for the last two days.
Later, when I got in the taxi I booked through Grab and talked to someone, I heard that hotels and touts are sometimes in collusion.
I trusted the hotel because it had such good reviews, but it ruined my money, time, and my memories.
I just feel really sad.
Please be careful if you are Japanese or traveling alone.
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