I called Mercure Charlestown last week and the lady on phone was reluctant to accept the Accor gift cards for prepaid rate. Only wanted to accept them for flexible rate. Managed to convince her that prepaid rate should be acceptable. Forgot to get her name.
Fast forward to today and I am ready to make reservation. Call up and lady at reception won't honour prepaid rate. Spoke with manager who also refused to honour the prepaid rate. What do you do? Told them they were wrong.
Called Accor who were happy to honour the prepaid rate. Wanted to use my Accor number but to do that had to pay some cash amount not all in gift cards. The payment due is $270 so need to pay $200 in Accor gift cards and $70 with credit card. When I look at breakdown it is $121.50 and $148.50 so Saturday night more expensive.
This is too difficult. Not sure why they make it so difficult. Now stuck with $100 gift card and I don't want to stay anywhere in Australia and pay these ridiculous rates and cop this flak on top. Customer service very poor.