Whenever I visited China in the past, I always used to book a Ji Hotel. This time, I was traveling with my family and thought that Rezen, also under the Huazhu Group, should be decent. To my surprise, we ran into trouble on the very first day. Citing no availability, they assigned us a room type that could only accommodate 3 people, even though there were 4 of us (the room type they gave us looked nothing like the pictures of the room we booked on Trip.com). What's worse, the room decor looked like an unfinished temporary room; it didn't even have a TV box, so we could only stare at a blank screen. I'd seen reviews mentioning wrong room assignments before, and I truly regret not taking those negative reviews seriously. We booked this room months in advance and clearly noted it was for 4 people, including my parents. Yet, the room type we booked wasn't available, and this issue wasn't communicated at all during check-in. We only found out when we got to the room ourselves. When we brought up this glaring mistake to the front desk, they didn't offer a satisfactory solution. They didn't proactively offer us another vacant room so we could at least split up. We even had to ask for extra blankets and mats ourselves; they clearly didn't care how we were supposed to sleep. The front desk staff even said that if someone checked out the next day, they would prioritize giving us a room, but we would have to wait, and it wasn't guaranteed. How ridiculous! Management should retrain their front desk staff; if this is truly their standard operating procedure (SOP), it's terrible! Only after complaining to the platform did they promise to switch us to the room type we booked the next day, but they firmly refused any other solutions and wouldn't allow a cancellation or refund. Furthermore, the floor in the room they gave us on the first night was incredibly dirty; stepping on it barefoot left my feet covered in dust. Even after the cleaning lady mopped, it didn't help, so sleeping on the floor was disgusting. On the second night, we finally got the room we had booked on Trip.com, but the central air conditioning had issues. Initially, the first floor was stuffy and hot. I asked for a fan (the incorrect room on the first night had one), but the front desk said they didn't have any and claimed what I saw was a humidifier. After the front desk adjusted the central AC, the second floor became very stuffy. In the end, we had to buy a fan ourselves to get through the second night. On the third day, the cleaning staff came to tidy up and brought a technician to look at the AC. The technician said there was only an air vent. Fortunately, the cleaner was savvy; seeing that we had bought a fan, she brought us a portable air cooler with a cold air mode and told us not to buy another fan. At that moment, we realized the front desk staff from last night had been misleading us again, claiming a portable air cooler was a humidifier. Overall, we are extremely dissatisfied with this hotel; it's the worst hotel we've ever booked in China. The most patient, polite, and reliable service came from the delivery robot, and the most humane touch was from the cleaning staff. We highly do not recommend this hotel to anyone who is visiting Beijing as a family. It is a very stressful experience with all the cock-ups, especially when parents are staying together. Once the hotel is unable to fulfill the basic standard of assigning guests with enough beds to sleep and the guests have to sleep on the floor, it is a total failure.
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