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Good lord, the amount of people who are unwilling to state what their issue is and actually take an action that will change the problem is ridiculous. Nothing suggested in the comments or the post will ever make a connection in the minds of the hotel's owners or managers. You'll add to their bottom line, sure, but the hotel going out of business isn't necessarily a good thing, considering the building will sit there for a few years, be sold to another chain, and reopen. The other hotels in the area are probably charging the same parking fee, or just folding it into their total cost. Maybe since the first hotel closed, they'll get to tack on more fees with less competition. You've accomplished nothing except adding more waste to the junkyard/garbage dump.
Get your ass onto a review site, clearly explain what you're annoyed with, and state you won't be going back. Go to another review site, repeat. Repeate. Repeatay. One, it makes the issue clearly visible to other people who might now choose to stay elsewhere, and two, it costs the hotel the same (well, maybe the same) amount of money but now they have an incentive to change whatever it is that annoyed you because of people choosing to stay elsewhere until it's changed.
I'm a big fan of weaponizing hotel reviews. I review almost every hotel room I stay in, and I'm brutally honest. I say what I like, but I also say what I don't like. I'm not picky, I only expect a comfortable bed, a clean room, a clean operational bathroom, and an operational TV. If any of those are off, it's a problem, and it's going into the review.
It's surprising how many motels don't have operational TVs any more. I recently had a run of three motels in a row with non-working TVs.
I expect the bare minimum, that's all. Fuck up the bare minimum, and I'm going to savage you.
Hotels blame their bad reviews on the employees. Once worked at a hotel that blamed the front desk for the bad reviews the hotel got because of a burst water main.
That ain't just hotels, my friend. That's standard executive practice. They teach that in business school. It's ALWAYS the employees' fault.
I actually left a good review recently when I had to stay somewhere and only had the laptop. Their IT fellow was super helpful in helping me connect to the internet, despite my inexperience with the linux side of internet connection issues.
I leave good, even great reviews, when warranted. I especially like to call out employees by name, when they've done something extra for me. That way, even corporate sees it, in case they have that manger who takes credit for everything.
I prefer to leave good reviews, but a bad review is somewhat satisfying after a bad stay.