Tài Khoản Khách
ngày 10 tháng 5 năm 2024
I was very excited to stay at Aman Venice having been to two Aman hotels before with extraordinary experiences. The stay was very disappointing, our room was the "cheapest" one available, at 2,500 Euros a night, and it is exactly what you would expect from a Hilton or Marriott, a completely standard room, run down with mediocre furnishings and in need of maintenance. Service is excellent, everyone is very polite and capable. Food is very good, not extraordinary. Breakfast is ok. I received an email with our folio for incurred expenses and they also tell me that no gratuity has been added and that standard tip in Italy is 10%, so after paying more than 10,000 Euros for a four night stay they were soliciting 40 Euros. At these prices it is unbecoming to solicit tips. As always, service at Four Seasons is much better than Aman although Aman properties are usually very impressive (not Venice). We asked them to arrange a water taxi to the train station and they said it would be about 75 euros to be paid directly with driver. Train station is about 12 minutes away. After about 4 minutes in the taxi the hotel called to say we left some small items in the room so we asked driver to go back to the hotel to pick them up. Arriving at train station I gave driver 100 Euros considering he turned around to pick the things but he said it was 200 Euros and not 75 as he had to go back to the hotel, I understand that he did, but 200 euros? He said it is not me, the hotel told me to charge that so I asked to call hotel, and incredibly they said yes, it is 200 euros. I do not understand what the hotel has to do with it as it was supposedly and independent driver, evidently hotel gets a cut. Again, unbecoming to leave me with a terrible feeling of being abused instead of a nice feeling. And all for 100 Euros, they are very cheap and I will not go back to Aman. They should really learn from Four Seasons, I am sure that they would have said to me "you left some stuff here so please wait for us at the train station, someone is on the way with your things" and of course charged nothing. Cheap Aman, do not go.
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