4/10 Poor
Shawn
Traveled with partner
Feb 25, 2025
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
Alaya was a wonderful experience. The workers try their best to smile and make you feel at home and comfortable. Unfortunately, these smiles are somewhat forced and fake - not so candid. You can tell the workers are frustrated with tourists, and just overwhelmed and tired. Chanise and Pebri were genuinely wonderful people and were authentic with their work. We had an issue with the hotel not supplying enough sugar free sodas in replace of their sugary sodas. They would only give us 1 sugar free soda and 4 sugary ones. We don’t consume sugary sodas and felt that we were not treated properly for a 5 star hotel when it came to this specific dietary restriction. I left a negative review on Google about this, and so the manager contacted me about this and asked me to change my review because they accommodated my request. It should not have taken me to write a negative review on Google for them to accommodate such a basic request. All in all, the staff were too apologetic for this, to the point we felt harassed. They were “so sorry” for this over and over and it was all because they wanted me to change my review. Will we return? Most likely not. Reason: they were only “nice” to us when they wanted the review changed. They should have provided exceptional customer service in the first place.
Shawn
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025