Mandolay Hotel, Guildford
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croyde

Original Poster:

26,298 posts

259 months

Saturday 15th May 2010
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Going to a mate's do in the area tonight and did not fancy having to leave early for the last train home. Hotels seemed limited but I booked a room at the Mandolay.

Just been looking at Trip Advisor and almost all the reviews rate it as a damp bed bug ridden sthole with rude staff.

Mysteriously you get the odd 5 stars from people saying it's the best place they have ever stayed in.

Did they stay in the same place?

Ah well, I'll find in a a few hours, gulp!

How do I stand about witholding payment, made by credit card yesterday, if I am not happy?

Cheers.

shimmey69

1,525 posts

207 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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if you get bitten by bed bugs whilst staying there and you can prove it you can easily take them to court for many £100,000's+ for the pyschological damage it has done to you, cant sleep in own bed any more etc etc blah blah!!

Don

28,378 posts

313 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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SO? How was it?

Jonny671

29,896 posts

218 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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It always looks very nice from the outside, and usually the carpark has more porsches/mercedes etc than normal cars you'd find at a travel lodge..

MidlandDan84

588 posts

207 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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Ive stayed at the Mandolay a few times, ok really nothing spectacular nothing that bad.

Last time i drove by there was a group of lads hanging about outside who were pretty chavtacular!

croyde

Original Poster:

26,298 posts

259 months

Tuesday 18th May 2010
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It was fine. Room tiny about 2m x 2m with a tiny shower/toilet tacked on and some bd had a telly blaring away all night but it was clean.

Original price of room was supposedly £140 but there would have been no way that I would have paid that. Got it for £49 on late rooms and it was not worth a penny more.

They wanted a tenner for brekky so went to McDs instead.

Not sure about these Trip Advisor reviews. I suspect that all the bad ones are from rival hotels.