Mandarin Oriental Al Faisaliah, Riyadh

Good food

Well, it was very good stay for us. We came for the boxing match and apart from 1-2 shortcomings we had a great stay. The service from the concierge team was excellent(after going over twice to confirm that everything was set up accordingly regarding transfer to and from the boxing venue). The room service was good. Again very small shortcomings. The set up of our executive suite (additional bed for our daughter was not done on the first day, even through we requested it and came back late in the evening, we had to call the team to come with the extra bed- then was done quickly :-))....So apart from those couple of things we had very good stay. The excursion organised by the Concierge team was excellent(Edge of the World), so if you want to do it with them you wouldnt be disappointed. Considering everything, we would definitely return back to Riaydh and stay again at MO.

The hotel facilities here are good, but the service is absolutely terrible and wholly unbecoming of the Mandarin Oriental band (I have stayed in about 10 of their hotels globally and so am familiar with the usually excellent Mandarin Oriental service. We booked the room from Friday to Sunday and informed the hotel we would not be arriving until early Saturday morning, and had booked the Friday so as to have access to the room immediately. To ensure we arrived at the hotel quickly after an overnight flight, we also booked - at considerable expense - an airport fast-track arrivals service (Al Tanfeethi) combined with a hotel car to meet us there. The car didn't show up. The driver was no-where to be found - after considerable searching by us and the airport staff. We called the hotel and were told it was still 30min away. We got an uber instead at our own expense. On arrival we were told that we would not be charged for the Al Tanfeethi and the hotel car, given that our arrival had been delayed by the no-show of the driver. On depature, we had to wait almost 30min to check out, risking missing our flight, due to understaffing at the front desk. I then signed a bill which had the room charges on, all good so far. Then after having asked several times for an email receipt, several days later after multiple chasers we were sent a bill that had a NO-SHOW penalty for the Friday night (despite us having explained that we would not be arriving until Saturday morning) as well as reinstating the charges for the Al Tanfeethi lounge and hotel car. The conceirge now stated - wholly untruthfully - that the driver was there and that we ordered a second car too. This is completely false and the have now started to invent up fake facts in order to avoid refunding. Further, and fundamentally, these charges were not on the bill I signed . The emails from the concierge are rude and unapologetic - wholly outrageous in any situation, let alone from a brand such as the Mandarin. A disgrace to the Mandarin brand.

CEO Dated hotel. Spa and gym not updated in recent years

Glad i choose them overall it's was fabulous ,they were generous enough to fulfill my request:).