I make trips to Danbury 3-4 times a year as part of an event I organize and host in the area that brings 100's of out-of-towners to Danbury. Since 2004 I have stayed in at least a dozen of the different Danbury area hotels at least once. I have been recommending the Maron as a primary option to my mailing list since 2009 when I first started staying at hotels in the area, and renewed this suggestion for Maron as our "primary" option since I relaunched my events in 2022. As of March 2025 I'm giving The Maron an indefinite time out after my most recent experience - which resulted in a stressful, chaotic interaction on-site and my having to pivot on the fly to scrabble for alternate accommodations. Unbeknownst to dozens of guests who thought they had iron-clad reservations on the weekend of March 7-9, the Maron was sold to another company (I believe Marriott) in Feb-March 2025. Due to the sudden change in ownership/management, the new owners of the Maron 1) decided to do room renovations to over 2/3 of their existing rooms on site while staying open. They also 2) said that reservations made with the former owners/management were not compatible with their new computer reservation systems. That meant 3) the Maron was overbooked by an unknown amount of reservations - possible in the double digits - and what's worse 4) they didn't inform anyone who had existing Maron reservations in advance that the hotel was double/triple-booked and that they couldn't guarantee rooms to anyone, whether they had an old or new reservation or not. I walked in at 3:30pm for check-in and there was a crowd of over a dozen potential guests all being told this crucial, urgent info for the first time - in the Maron lobby and not by email, or phone. I asked one of the staff, point blank, "so this means that a reservation I made three months ago that was confirmed does not guarantee me a room at your hotel tonight?" The staff member shrugged and said yes. I referred to what was happening as a disaster (I believe the term I used was "sh*t show,") and the staff member had the pique to tell me that, actually, it wasn't a disaster, and that he would be unhappy to see me seek accommodations elsewhere. He spoke to me as if I had a guaranteed room at the Maron waiting for me (I didn't, according to him!). I rebooked with another hotel on the spot, and several other guests did the same. Other people I knew that stuck with the Maron that weekend told me that they booked them into not-yet-finished rooms. And that the staff on site didn't actually know which rooms were still in progress and which weren't. So they were walking guests upstairs to their rooms, telling them they could look at the room first and then decide if they wanted to stay in it. This meant the staff asked the guests to do a room inspection on their own and check that the heat was working, that there was electricity (lights, televisions); that there was a working phone in the room; that there was hot running wat