1 Akbar Mustafa - 4 months ago
My family and I booked a room here for all of us to stay, including our two cats - as we are moving out of Dusseldorf and needed to leave our apartment today. We booked the room at the Moxy more than two weeks ago but first called to make sure they allow cats to stay there. The representative told us it would be no problem to accommodate us all, that we would have to pay a fee for the cats and recommended the larger room. I went online and booked it and even checked the option that asked if we have pets and specifically stated in the notes that we have two cats staying with us. Today, on the day of check-in - I received an email from Christian (Front Office Team Member) saying that the room would be available for my wife, baby and me but not for the cats. I immediately called and spoke to him and he confirmed that dogs are allowed but not cats, and I explained to him that we called and confirmed this more than two weeks ago before booking and his colleague indicated that we could bring cats and that's the only reason we booked a room here. He said he would look into it and call me back. He called back about 15 minutes later and said there is nothing he could do to change that cats are not allowed. He offered only a free cancellation and the advice to drop the cats somewhere else so we could stay there without them. Free cancellation should not even have to be stated as this was 100% their fault and of course they should allow us out of the reservation for free, and his advice was not helpful or sensitive to our situation.
We were forced to find another room at a different hotel urgently at the last second for significantly higher than we intended and budgeted for, and our whole day was disrupted and thrown off schedule on top of all the stress we already had with packing up our belongings to move out of our home. I would highly recommend against staying here or doing business with this establishment, as they do not honor their commitments and are fine leaving their customers stranded without any help or viable alternate solutions. There should be a penalty for this type of business practice, and the hotel management should thoroughly review the reservations when they confirm them rather than on the day of check-in. That way they would be able to tell their customers in advance that they won't be able to service them, and avoid putting them in an extremely uncomfortable position as they did with us today.