Victim Location 94118
Total money lost $200
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations
The website is misleading. The images on the website appear to be doctored or from 10-20 years ago if not. The rooms are actually falling apart. The outside of the building is rundown. The lobby floor is torn up. For the prices they are charging, and seeing the pictures they have, it presents itself as a much higher quality hotel.
I’ve listed $200 as “lost” since we used the room briefly then booked a separate hotel. We felt obligated to pay for at least one night. The true loss could also include the obviously higher rate needed to book another hotel on short notice. Admittedly we could have stayed, but were uncomfortable doing so after reading up on the place and finding that they may have had problems with bed bugs in the not so distant past.
Lesson learned: do your homework and look up a business on a third party site like yelp before booking anything. But regardless of what we could have done better, the advertising done by this business is highly misleading.