It was not our first and not even our second stay in this hotel. From the beginning we just loved everything about it. Our previous stay was exactly 2 years ago: in January, 22 and that time I also wrote a review saying how classy hotel it is and how much it deserves more honest management, because they decided nothing better than make super-noisy works inside the hotel without either closing it or – at the very least - warning the guests beforehand or just having a notice on their site about the fact of the works and their schedule, so everyone could make an informed decision whether to book depending on their plans in Sao Paulo – because it is isn’t possible to be in the room with a kind of noise and walls shaking that was going on around. But, well, in January, 22 the pandemic was still on, so everything that was happening during that time should be looked at with some kind of discount, shouldn’t it? And then 2 years have passed, so surely the renovation - or whatever they call them – works should had finished long time ago, in 2 years you can build a completely new hotel from scratch and Emiliano must be even more classy now that it was in the past, - we thought naively with my wife when making a booking for Emiliano Suite (just a bit shy of USD 1.000 per night) this time for our 2 days break in Sao Paulo. When checking-in, more for the sake of pulling a joke I asked the receptionist: but for sure you don’t have any more works, like you had 2 years back, do you? Hum, actually we do have renovations ongoing on 10th and 11th floor – the answer was, - but you won’t hear anything on the 16th floor you Suite is on, but if you will be disturbed, please, just call us and we will stop it right away. Right, just a bit after 9:00 a.m. banging of tens of hummers started and it felt like they were all banging on the walls and ceiling of our suite. Like agreed, I called front desk and told them to stop it all right away. “Yes, yes, they understand”. Except absolutely nothing was changing. I called again and again and on the 3rd time I asked to talk to the manager. After some time, I was passed to some female (unfortunately didn’t catch the name), who – it was felt through a phone receiver – smiling from ear to ear asked me how she could help me. They should stop the noise right away and refund me the money, - I told her, - because they promise 5-star amenities and 5-star comfort luring people to stay with them. They do have the amenities, but there is absolutely no comfort with that noise. So, sorry, they can’t stop the noise, they have renovation works going on, but she will see what she can do about refunding me some money, - she said without her cheeky smile already. Of course, I never heard from her again and at the check-out was presented a bill showing full amounts for room. So, not only management of the hotel became any more honest throughout these 2 years. They don’t want to close the hotel for a month, send all their staff on vacation, invest t
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