Guest User
January 15, 2025
I was in shock. On the second night of my stay, St. Regis gifted me with a large, loud outdoor wedding reception below my window. You know the type of reception—a few hundred people having a great loud time, a very loud band, etc. Most hotels would limit the festivities to a large ballroom or other place where the other paying guests wouldn’t be disturbed. Not St. Regis. The whole mess was outside, right under my decks and windows. So much for my peaceful evening in the mountains. I would have expected some kind of warning when booking (none), warning when checking in (none), or even an offer at check in to move to a room on the quieter, downgraded side of the building. Zilch. St. Regis really wanted me to hear the party. The following morning, I asked the ghoul at the reception desk about the chaos and whether I could expect more of the same. The response was a glare and “the HOA allows this.” As a nightly guest, I don’t know anything about their bloody HOA, nor do I care. I just wanted a peaceful retreat to the mountains. A subsequent query via their app got something closer to an apology, and a reminder of all of their amenities at my disposal. The only amenity not on offer was peace and quiet, To put it bluntly, it seems like St. Regis doesn’t care about their guests, and disturbing paying guests is no problem if they can get even more money from an extravagant wedding. Just another money-grubbing Marriott chain with no true interest in the guest experience. And don’t get me started on that silly funicular and the dysfunctional parking. What a mess!