Anyone who was there this weekend will tell you about all or the ridiculous stuff that management did to bimmerfest attendees and how poorly we were all treated. But no one was treated worse then us poor souls in room 114, who got charged an extra $400 for noise complaints and the police coming when the police never came, and we were asleep when said noise complaints were made and when the fantasy cops came to the hotel room.
In all, they threatened to call the police, tow our cars and evict us even when we were being complacent and doing nothing wrong.
That was your cliffs, here is the weekend in more details
We had trouble at the Sandpiper last year too but decided to give it another shot. We had rented about about 80% of the hotel and in typical bimmerfest fashion there were a lot of people going room to room meeting each other and hanging out.
We were badgered constantly all Friday night even after we split up and quieted down. Yes, at 10 and 11 we were being loud, but most people headed over to Motel 6 after that because we didn't want to deal with management. Those who stayed for the most part kept it down. That is a little besides the point though, because the real bullshit happened after it was quiet.
At around 1:30am Friday night, we get a call to our room about noise complaints and threats to kick us out for noise and for people walking by our room (wtf we can't control where people walk!). We aren't being loud. Ironically, the phone woke some of us up when the "noise" didn't.
They called back twice after that about a minute a part from each other... then they just started calling and hanging up. We unplugged the phone.
My friend Siobhan and her friend went outside for a cigarette shortly after all this and as she quietly stood there and smoked the manager came up to her and threatened to evict us again if she didn't go inside. They said specifically that they had 7 noise complaints about them being outside! They were being quiet because of what had just happened and didn't want any more trouble. I also want to note that everyone there for bimmerfest received calls for seven complaints about their room and their room in particular. They were making up noise complaints!
Saturday night everyone went out to State St. because we didn't want problems, but even though we were quiet the drama found us. Everyone came back, settled down and went to sleep without issue. My boyfriend and I had already been asleep for about two hours in the adjoining room (with the door open) and didn't even hear them come in. There were no calls made to our room, no visits from the manager, nothing. Just a quiet, peaceful night.
or so we thought.
Come Sunday morning when we go to check out there is a $400 charge on our bill for noise and the police coming on Saturday night. The time all of this happened was after we were asleep! We called the police to get the room number from the report and discovered that the police never came!
They sent a car over to the hotel to help us clear things up with the management (lets give SBPD a thumbsup on this one). The manager pretended to remove the charge, but then wouldn't give us a receipt. The officer forced the manager to give him the receipt, and when he did the $400 charge was still there even though we did nothing wrong!
Now Siobhan had to go through her credit card to remove a charge for an event that didn't even happen.
So cliffs part two: never stay at the Sandpiper. They obviously don't want our business, so lets refuse to give it to them. Bimmerfest 2010 we boycott the Sandpiper.
In all, they threatened to call the police, tow our cars and evict us even when we were being complacent and doing nothing wrong.
That was your cliffs, here is the weekend in more details
We had trouble at the Sandpiper last year too but decided to give it another shot. We had rented about about 80% of the hotel and in typical bimmerfest fashion there were a lot of people going room to room meeting each other and hanging out.
We were badgered constantly all Friday night even after we split up and quieted down. Yes, at 10 and 11 we were being loud, but most people headed over to Motel 6 after that because we didn't want to deal with management. Those who stayed for the most part kept it down. That is a little besides the point though, because the real bullshit happened after it was quiet.
At around 1:30am Friday night, we get a call to our room about noise complaints and threats to kick us out for noise and for people walking by our room (wtf we can't control where people walk!). We aren't being loud. Ironically, the phone woke some of us up when the "noise" didn't.
They called back twice after that about a minute a part from each other... then they just started calling and hanging up. We unplugged the phone.
My friend Siobhan and her friend went outside for a cigarette shortly after all this and as she quietly stood there and smoked the manager came up to her and threatened to evict us again if she didn't go inside. They said specifically that they had 7 noise complaints about them being outside! They were being quiet because of what had just happened and didn't want any more trouble. I also want to note that everyone there for bimmerfest received calls for seven complaints about their room and their room in particular. They were making up noise complaints!
Saturday night everyone went out to State St. because we didn't want problems, but even though we were quiet the drama found us. Everyone came back, settled down and went to sleep without issue. My boyfriend and I had already been asleep for about two hours in the adjoining room (with the door open) and didn't even hear them come in. There were no calls made to our room, no visits from the manager, nothing. Just a quiet, peaceful night.
or so we thought.
Come Sunday morning when we go to check out there is a $400 charge on our bill for noise and the police coming on Saturday night. The time all of this happened was after we were asleep! We called the police to get the room number from the report and discovered that the police never came!
They sent a car over to the hotel to help us clear things up with the management (lets give SBPD a thumbsup on this one). The manager pretended to remove the charge, but then wouldn't give us a receipt. The officer forced the manager to give him the receipt, and when he did the $400 charge was still there even though we did nothing wrong!
Now Siobhan had to go through her credit card to remove a charge for an event that didn't even happen.
So cliffs part two: never stay at the Sandpiper. They obviously don't want our business, so lets refuse to give it to them. Bimmerfest 2010 we boycott the Sandpiper.