Ca' Messner 5 Leoni

Absolutely horrendous. We booked our stay for mid August in May. We travelled from Manchester England for our 2 night, midweek stay and after a long and fairly sweaty journey, we finally arrived at this hotel. The manager greeted us with our booking confirmation and “you can’t stay here”. Expecting a punchline to what was surely a joke, we were given the ‘options’ of a refund or… a refund. No apology, no empathy, just a straight faced rejection with no offer of compensation in any form. His reasoning was something to do with a pipe in our room and we were told nobody was staying (obviously untrue as there were people going upstairs during this discussion). Furthermore, we were told the issue had occurred that morning and he claimed that they had sent information about the cancellation (this was at 14:18) - when I checked my emails, I had been emailed at 14:02 - why in the name of Jesus he thought it best to wait until an hour before our check in time to inform us of our hotel being cancelled, I’ll never know. We luckily managed to get a booking at the amazing Palazza Paruta which prevented myself and my wife from sleeping rough for the next 2 nights. The room refund then took 3 days and 2 more visits to the hotel to be paid, taking even more time out of our trip. Thank god we didn’t have our child with us and that we had the ability to afford another hotel last minute. Utter shambles of a hotel, business and customer service and they now couldn’t pay me to stay there.

We had no hot water to shower the first day. The solution was access to another bathroom in another building. When we woke up the first morning we had a flood of drain water on the floor. It was terrible, the smell was awful. Faeces floating around on the bathroom floor. No new room, no discount was offerd. The breakfast was low standard.