Customer service counts: The hotel contacted me (WhatsApp) to say that the rate I booked was too low, and they would not honor it. They said to contact OYO for any refund. I booked on Expedia (rate was the same on every booking website). Then, I received an email saying due to COVID, they were closing this hotel and offering me a stay at another OYO nearby. As a previous Airbnb host, and now a small business owner, the customer service was pretty appalling. If left us (driving to the hotel) to book another hotel, while we were charged by Expedia for the stay and 6 days later have not been refunded. As a business owner, I would have at least offered a solution instead of rudely informing the customer that the rate was too low and to seek a refund without any assistance. We ended up staying in 3 hotels the same week, all OYO, and have only great things to say. Now, we have rented a home near this hotel and pass by it almost daily. We can’t recommend it. I hope the $19 we paid for night helps the hotel during this difficult time... because for $20 they have means they not only lost a potential repeat customer, but a resident in the area who has many families members visit and has to send them to a local hotel. That $20 difference (we would have paid) they could have absorbed and would have had a full house in 3 months (as we are getting married and cannot host all of my husband’s relatives), not to mention ongoing stays from family members.
