Hotel Campanile Cardiff!!! AVOID!!!
Booked this hotel in March through Amoma.com , fully paid for it there and then, 2 rooms 4 adults in total for a 2 night stay in September. On the Friday before we were due to arrive, so 1 week prior, I received an email from Amoma saying they’d gone into liquidation and to get in touch with the hotel immediately. The following day both me and my dad phoned the hotel inquiring whether our rooms were still confirmed. We spoke to a french man who confirmed, yes, everything is fine, both rooms are confirmed. So the day arrived and we set out on our 2 and a half hour journey to Cardiff. On arrival we were met by a french man at reception and we produced all our confirmation documents, to the absolute shock, both rooms were cancelled and if we wanted to re-book them, then we have to pay again at an increased price to what we originally paid. We understandably were not happy and asked to speak to the manager,however the person we was speaking to, the person that we had been arguing with for the last half hour, was in fact the manager and the same person which we had previously spoke to on the phone confirming our rooms were booked. We asked him several questions in regards to: why didn’t the hotel contact us when the rooms were cancelled? Why, when both me and my dad phoned the hotel, did you say both rooms were confirmed? ( to which we found out the one room had already been cancelled prior to us phoning up!!),to which he had very little response, In fact, the only response he had , pay again or leave!! No management skills whatsoever. The way this so called manager handled our situation was very poor indeed and an overall look into how this hotel is run should be top of the agenda for the owners. I recommend avoiding this hotel at all costs...
September 29, 2019
Unprompted review