I’ll preface this by noting I had stayed here a couple years ago, but had such a bad experience I resolved not to write a review so that I could forget about it. However, I’ll tell you about my experience so you’re aware of the type of customer service you could expect to receive.
The reservation was booked through RCI, which has a policy of booking stays in one-week increments. As such, the original reservation was for June 17-24, but I emailed the Casa Turquesa reservation desk on April 19 to see if there was a way to rearrange the dates to make it fit my itinerary. Alan from Casa Turquesa responded and told me there was no way to do so, so I just confirmed with him that I would not be checking in until June 20, unlike the original reservation of June 17. I confirmed a second time with him on June 12 just to make sure that everything was good, as I had heard there have been other accounts of people having difficulties checking into hotels in Cancun. Alan did confirm my arrival date on April 28 and June 13 respectively, so I was confident everything was good.
When I arrived at Casa Turquesa, I brought the email correspondence as evidence of my reservation, but the manager, Mus, was extremely rude and unaccommodating. He claimed that I should have called them in advance, even though in the confirmation email Casa Turquesa sent me, it states that should there be any changes to the itinerary, one could call or email them. I did not call because that involved international charges, and I had already emailed them confirming things twice. Mus did not honor the reservation, and when my friend attempted to step in to talk to him, he told her that “he could only speak to one person at a time” and condescendingly asked if he should talk to her or me. He continued having a patronizing attitude and had no semblance of customer service, as he was not willing to work with us, stating that “there is no money involved, so there is no problem with them”. However, it was an employee of theirs of confirmed everything was in good order, and as such I tried to tell him that. He refused to listen to logic and in the end, wished us “good luck” in finding another place.
The hotels in the nearby area were all expensive, and it was late at night. We had limited resources, and so walking to downtown Cancun was unsafe and dangerous, and it was extremely expensive to take a taxi. As such, we were planning to sleep in the lobby because there wasn’t any other option available to us. We were just three girls tired, hungry, sleepy, and frustrated with our experience. Mus refused to help us until speaking to Alan, who he said would be there at 10:30 am the next morning.
In the end, we were able to stay in a room because someone “didn’t check in”. However, I find it unbelievable that in a city that receives a lot of tourists, we were subject to the worst customer service experience and went through a lot of frustration and fear that we would not have a bed to sleep in that night, despite having taken all precautions and being calm and reasonable the entire time. Mus needs lessons in empathy as well as in customer service, because he clearly does not know how to treat people correctly. Customer or not, there was no hospitality and no sense of responsibility from Mus in Casa Turquesa, and that type of ill treatment deserves to be noted.
