Well my instinct told me not to follow the crowd. I knew much better than the crowd I followed 🤦♀️.
I’m talking about hotel choices. The team (from the sister company) that I was following booked the hotel via our expense management system. They thought it was nice as it was falsely advertised in our booking system. However, something at the back of my head was nagging me, reminding me why for the past almost 9 years of flying in and out of SG I have not booked this hotel and its other branch. But still, hey, I thought it would be better for team spirit that I join them.
Well, crap.
Hotel service is zero. They haven’t cleaned my room since I arrived on Sunday. No drinking water; they just have a dispenser somewhere on the same floor and you fill the pitcher in your room yourself.
A member of the team from our sis company moved out. Others were like, ok we’re just gonna grin and bear it. Some of them came from hedge funds and global law firms so they are used to 5 star hotels. I, as a journalist, am used to crap since we’re mostly operating on guerilla mode and got to work with something we’re given with. So if I booked a substandard hotel because I didn’t listen to my instinct, I just bite the bullet and stay because it’s already paid for and hard to get refunds nowadays (it’s not immediately refunded in my credit card).
But then again, I deserve better, right? Well, I just charge it to experience. I will never ever book this hotel and its other branch. Blacklisted.
Really sleepy now.