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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS -- I have had a very unfortunate experience with the Holiday Inn Express North Little Rock on McCain Boulevard. I stayed there in September 2009 and I was traveling on business. My company had booked the hotel for me and paid for it via Expedia. When I checked into the hotel, the front desk associate asked me for my credit card for incidentals. I didn't argue it because I travel all over the country and being asked for my credit card for incidentals at check in is a normal occurrence.
In October, I noticed the Holiday Inn Express North Little Rock had charged my credit card for $534.03. I called the hotel to ask them to remove the charge since my stay had already been paid for by my company. The woman I spoke to on the phone was very rude and told me that I shouldn't have given my credit card to the person at check in because once the hotel is paid for, a card shouldn't need to be swiped. How unfortunate.
I called and asked them in a calm manner to find out how to get this charge reimbursed and I received a rude response to the problem at hand that had been caused by one of the hotel employees. She then told me she could not handle the problem and the person who could handle it was not there. She told me to call back in the morning to get a hold of the manager.
The next morning, I called to speak with the manager, but she was unavailable, so I left a voicemail. I didn't hear back from her after I left a voicemail. I called back the next day and finally got a hold of the manager. She was very nice to me and told me she would go ahead and get the charge taken off my card and that I would see it come off very soon.
On October 25, 2009, there was another charge on my card of $534.03 and then immediately after there was a credit on my card for $534.03. So, instead of refunding my stay on my card, the card was charged again for the full amount and the charge that happened on October 25th, was refunded on October 25th. Unfortunately, this also meant the original charge from September 2009 was STILL on my card and had never been refunded.
In the weeks that followed between October 25th and December 15th, I have made over 14 calls to the hotel trying to get this matter resolved. Every single time I have called, I have been told that the person who deals with credit card matters is not there. I have been told that I need to call back on a Friday, I have been told to call back in the morning and was given specific times to call between and mysteriously, the woman was not there during this time either. I was also told on a few different occasions that the staff was not allowed to give out other staff members work schedule so they couldn't tell me a best time to call back to get the matter resolved.
Another time when I called they told me they couldn't find my old reservation on file or see anywhere that I had stayed at their hotel at which point they cut me off, and told me to call another hotel in North Little Rock because I had called the wrong place. This was completely inaccurate since I had been in contact with same hotel the entire time. It was just another excuse for the hotel workers to not deal with me on the phone. I was also told on a separate occasion, that I shouldn't have let them swipe my card at check in. This was the second or third time I was given that same rude response for something that in no way was my fault.
On another occasion, I explained my situation and who I was (to the same rude woman who told me that I shouldn't have let them swipe my card at check in) and when I was finished, she just said, "OK thanks," and made every effort possible to not stay on the phone with me. After calling over 14 times and introducing myself and my situation every single time to the same employees, they knew who I was and why I was calling and yet they still never had a viable solution for me.
One time I was told the manager would take care of the charge and I would receive a fax when it was refunded to my card. When the charge was still not refunded, I tried calling again and again to find out why the charge had not come off my card and why I still hadn't received a fax. I was told by another male employee that the number they had on file for my fax was a bad number and the contact number I had left each time I called was not able to be reached. He told me the manager had left for the day and if she had time she would try to fax it to me again.
Time and again, I was given excuses and was dismissed when I tried to get this matter resolved in a calm and reasonable fashion. Once I became fed up with trying to reach unreachable managers, I called the corporate help line to see if anything could be done for me. While the woman on the phone was very nice to me, she let me know there was absolutely nothing that they could do to help me and the manager of the specific hotel in North Little Rock would have to refund this charge.
I asked if there was any way whatsoever to ensure the manager get back in contact with me and she said they would send a message directly to the manager to resolve the situation and that the manager would be calling me within 24-48 hours. Needless to say, the situation was never resolved, the manager never called me, and I am left with a charge of $534.03 on my credit card, accruing interest by the day.
In the meantime, I was left with no choice, but to call Visa directly to dispute the charge. Currently, I have Visa working on a credit card dispute for me in order for me to get my money back that is rightfully mine. In addition to not being able to pay off my credit card due to this charge, my fiancé and I are currently unable to make reservations for our honeymoon because it needs to go on the same credit card that the Holiday Inn Express North Little Rock charge is on.
I have never in my entire life been given such an awful runaround with a problem caused by a company. The worst part is that in no way is this my fault. I have spent countless amounts of time away from work attempting to get a hold of the manager at the Holiday Inn Express North Little Rock during business hours. This is costing me valuable time at work, stress, finance charges on my credit card, and costing me a higher price to pay for my honeymoon because I was not able to book in the time that my travel agent found a deal for me.
This is, by far, the worst experience I have ever had with any company. I have been traveling the country for years on business and this is absolutely inexcusable. The employees at Holiday Inn North Little Rock have cost the Holiday Inn chain a considerable amount of business and have earned the chain a bad rapport.
HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS -- My wife, son and I stayed at the establishment on 1/16/2009 - 1/18/2009 as part of a Cub Scout outing to the Mid America Science Museum. We arrived around 9pm on 1/16/2009 checked into our room. On 1/17/2009 4 other families from our Cub Scout Pack arrived and we toured the museum and they then too checked into the hotel. On 1/18/2009 I woke up to find my bill under the door as expected. Upon reviewing the charges I noticed a $200.00 Pet Charge added to my bill and highlighted in yellow.
Assuming this was a typo or bookkeeping error I went down to the front desk and asked the front desk clerk, ** to please remove the charge from my bill as I have no pets in the room. Much to my surprise she immediately displayed a defensive attitude and indicated that the housekeeper, **, had seen evidence of dog hair on a blanket in our room and the charge would not be removed. I immediately registered what she was referring to.
My 7 year old son had brought his favorite blanket and pillow from home and both of those items do indeed have dog hair on them from our dogs at home. I explained the situation to her detailing that there was no dog in the room or dog hair on any of the hotel furnishings, and that the housekeeper must have been referring to my son's blanket. I asked that she please send someone up to the room to verify. ** indicated that there was no one to send and that she could not leave the front desk and the charges would not be removed.
I then asked to speak to the General Manager On Duty listed on the sign behind her: **. She told me that there was no manager currently on duty and I would have to wait to speak to him/her on Monday. I asked if she would call him and she refused. I returned to my room, took pictures of all the hotel furnishings, sheets, towels, floor etc as best I could as I could see where this argument was heading.
I then contacted 1 800 HOLIDAY and was given case number: 2301228. They attempted to call the local Holiday Inn and have ** reach the manager on duty but were also unsuccessful. They indicated that I would have to contact them via the case number on Monday. I again asked ** to contact the General Manager, and she again refused and threatened to contact security if my wife and I did not leave the front desk area immediately. Having no other legal recourse at this point I followed those directions and checked out.
On Monday I contacted 1 800 Holiday again and was told that the manager could not be reached and to please allow 48 hours from the time of the incident for a resolution. On Tuesday (today) I called again and they indicated that the local manager had indicated there was evidence of dog hair according to the housekeeper, and the charge would not be removed. The Corporate office indicated they would stand by the local branch and would not remove the charge and suggested if I had issues that I contact my credit card company and dispute the charge.
I have contacted Discover card and asked that the charge be disputed, and they have made a note on my account to this effect. I still have to wait for the official charges to hit my bill before it can be taken further. I have since registered a formal complaint with the Better Business Bureau and several other complaint sites to warn prospective customers.
I have pictures, and 4 other families who will vouch for the fact that there was no dog in that room along with the check that I have written to my dog sitter back home to watch the dogs while I was away for the weekend, and no one will take any action. I find these business practices very frustrating and will never stay at another establishment owned or operated by Holiday Inn.Damage Resulting $200.00 additional charge to my credit card. Being called a liar and accused of having fictional pets in front of my Cub Scout Pack of which I am one of the leaders.
1/28/2009 - Update: I received a survey from International Hotels Group (IHG) yesterday regarding my feelings on my stay at the Holiday Inn Hot Springs. I answered the survey and then noticed at the bottom a generic note that said something to the effect of "we thank you for your business" signed the Senior Vice President of Holiday Inn Brands. Being in I.T. myself, I figured their email formats were probably firstname.lastname@example.com so I tried it and was able to mail him directly. I expressed my concerns, and he emailed me back almost immediately with a sincere apology and promise to get to the bottom of the issue.
This morning, a lady from his office contacted me twice regarding the issue and promised to resolve the issue through the credit card company request and enrolled me in the Premier Club along with a complimentary 15,000 points equating to a free stay at one of their properties.
It is unfortunate that I had to go all the way to the top of the food chain to get this resolved, however, the gentleman was very cordial and seemed to genuinely care that my issue was not treated with respect and prompt resolution. I will not mark this item as resolved until I can verify the charge has been removed from my account, but I can say that once I got to the right people the level of interest did improve.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- We stayed at the resort from May 10-17, 2015 on an exchange through RCI. About an hour after checking into the villa a golf ball smashed our car windshield which was parked in the driveway on the front of the Villa. Contact Security per instructions from the front desk who indicated that in Florida because they have so many golf courses that the insurance companies have a no fault waiver of deductibles by the insurance companies. Security also indicated that we signed a disclaimer at check in that the resort is not responsible for any damage to your property by errant golf balls on the resort. I check with my insurance company which stated our deductible will still apply and they would pay for all damages above the deductible. I then checked out the Florida law which only applied to Florida residents. This may also apply to car rentals with the added insurance coverage. We have visited Golf resorts all over the USA and have found Timeshares are more than willing to provide some type of compensation to ensure their guest have an enjoyable stay. After all bad press will cut into future sales of their property. It is reasonable to expect the golf course and resort would construct the course tee boxes in such a way to minimize potential damage to the property of Guest. The Tee box in back of the house was constructed well within 250 yards to the front of the villas and direct off the tee to our Villa and two other villas one on each side of ours. There were no other measures taken to lesson the potential damage to Guest property. This is potentially negligence on the part of the Resort. A simple net or car port cover would eliminate or significantly reduce the possibility of damage.
It is also reasonable to expect a resort to have insurance to cover Guest injuries and property when on their property. Their insurance does cover errant golf balls that break their patio glass doors in their villas.
We called the General Manager office and instead of the General Manager contacting us another person contacted us and reiterated the sign in disclaimer. I then suggested that some type of in kind gift be considered to rectify this situation and to make us whole. This person referred to the Golf course for resolution. The Golf course did at my suggestion provide me with two rounds of golf valued at approximately $140. The cost of the new windshield was $ 280. I then tried several times to contact the resort to consider in kind gift such as dinner or entertainment tickets but we got no return calls and were simply ignored. I then contacted the parent company InterContinental Hotels Group who indicated we would be contacted within 7-10 business days. We never heard from them at all.
I suspect that most people who stay at this resort are unaware that they are signing a disclaimer from injury and damages at check in. Something like that you would expect it to be highlighted on the sign in document to insure Guest are aware. If it were highlighted I could have made arrangement to move to another resort. The point is I would have had the choice. As it stands now I would not recommend any of my friends to stay at this resort.
The solution acceptable at this point is a refund of $ 140.00
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -- I checked in to the Holiday Inn in Concord, NH. Upon entering my room, I took a brief business call and undressed to shower. Suddenly the door to my room opened and a strange man entered (not a staff member). I screamed as he stared at my naked body. After a few moments he apologized and I was just screaming "Go! Get out!" while running around to cover my fully exposed, now visually sexually violated body.
I quickly dressed and managed to get to the front desk while experiencing a full blown panic attack at this violation of me. The girl at the desk acted as though it was nothing, didn't apologize as I stood sobbing in the lobby, and just handed me a key card to a new room.
My best friend had arrived by that point and noted how horrible the girl treated me. My friend and I went to this new room and I scanned the card at the room door, and inside was a man standing close to the door. I could barely breathe at this point and my friend rushed me back down to the lobby to inform them that they gave me ANOTHER room/room card that was occupied by someone else. Gross negligence of room cards and security TWICE within about 10 or 15 minutes by the same person!
I ran outside and sat on the bench next to the entrance, sobbing hysterically at the violation of my body and complete fear and horror I had just experienced. My panic was uncontrollable and customers entering the hotel were staring and wondering what happened. After about 10 minutes, the girl from earlier came out to basically try and shut me up because a hysterical young woman at the hotel entrance is not good for business.
She never apologized but finally when seeing I couldn't calm down after being so violated, told me that if I stayed at the hotel every one of my meals and beverages would be brought to my (now THIRD room) by room service so I wouldn't have to leave the room during the stay, and would all be of no charge to me. She said all could be comped if I stayed and went up to the new room. She also told me on the way up to the room (as I was clearly still hysterical) that the hotel would like to also offer me another stay for 2 nights at my choosing and again, all room service would be comped by the hotel again.
The manager ** FINALLY spoke with me, as I was still feeling so violated and scared and assured me that my current stay would also be fully comped by the hotel because of what happened. I felt like they were really going out of their way to try and right a horrible, sexually violating situation that happened due to their negligence, so I accepted these generous offers.
A few days after my second, promised to be comped in all ways stay there, I checked my credit card and saw they had charged me well over $1200.00. I was furious and called the manager **, leaving a message on his voicemail. He did not return my call, so I called the corporate office. They assured me it would all be corrected in 24-48 hours. 4 days went by and still no credit for the over $1200.00 charge. I called corporate again and they said ** told them my voicemail doesn't work, so that was that basically.
I SPECIFICALLY told corporate the first time that I refused to speak to **, this manager who blatantly LIED TO MY FACE and then charged all of that money to my card. I informed them that ** HAD left a voicemail for me, but I did not call him back because I already firmly told corporate I would not speak with such a person. They then told me they had to send the issue to their "executive level." I told them I had a witness to the entire horrible staff and management treatment of me and also she was there for all the comp promises made to me. I offered to give her phone number but they brushed me off.
So STILL I am waiting for that $1200.00 + charge to be credited to my card and the violation of my body, something that I have to live with for the rest of my life!!! To be taken care of by Holiday Inn, as was promised very clearly to me by the counter girl and this manager **.
I still have trouble sleeping. I close my eyes and see that man leering at my nude body. Nothing will make that go away, but it is so truly horrific that I was blatantly LIED to and charged over $1200.00 and corporate sees nothing wrong with this unacceptable horror - now refusing to refund these unauthorized charges and taking no responsibility for this trauma I have to live with always due to staff negligence. What kind of company is this? Never EVER stay at their hotels. Especially if you are a single female.
LEADERHEIGHTS, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA -- Upon arrival, my husband checked in, never going to the room, we left & went out to dinner arriving back about an hour or so later. The hotel staff was socializing with their friends in the lobby, including 2 women displaying affections to one another. We book the hotel on Priceline & the area was being hit with a snowstorm, so we where stuck in the hotel throughout the duration. My children & I went out to our Jeep to get out a board game & on our way back through the lobby we witnessed including my children inappropriate affections / behavior.
I was not comfortable to allow my 11 or 12 year old to even go to the ice machine alone. Then the room we got smelled of smoke, so combined with the behavior, I felt I would inform the manager. So I reported the situation to the front desk & asked for the manager & to my surprise she was one of the ladies involved in the display of affections. I was very rudely told that the hotel is a 100% smoke-free, I told her that was not the case, as I witnessed at least 2 of her staff smoking.
Her disposition & demeanor was very aggressive & I quickly realized it would do no good to complain. I did inform her my son has atypical asthma & cannot be in direct contact with smoke. Had there not been 2 ft of snow, with heavy snow still coming down & the fact all roads including interstate 83 were closed I would have left right away! Since I had no viable option & my son's asthma is not bothered once actual smoke dissipates, I did not make a bigger issue & we did stay in the room.
My husband also mention there was the possibility the smoke smell might have been from my husband's 4 wheel drive Jeep / clothes, because he carpools with coworkers & some of them including my husband will smoke in it. The rest of the stay was uneventful until the day of checkout! We had paid for the hotel through Priceline but the hotel required our credit card upon arriving anyway. After receiving the checkout receipt, my husband noticed a charge for a movie to our room made within 5 minutes of the time we checked in.
I told him it was unacceptable we did not rent a movie & asked him to address it as I did not feel comfortable to address it with the manager & felt certain she would simply dismiss it with me. So while my husband went to handle the charge, I went to our Jeep & decided to pick it up before packing it.
There were a few coffee cups my husband left in there from the hotel (he kept going out & cleaning the snow off our Jeep for the 2 days & would sit in our Jeep & have a cigarette) so I emptied the ashtray into one of the cups & picked up a magazine that got wet from the snow & carried them back to throw them out in the garbage can outside the hotel. But the can was covered & filled with snow, so I took them to our room & slipped them into one of their little garbage bags & left it there.
Well my husband comes back to the room & said the manager was a real piece of work! But she did admit she saw we did not go to the room right away & she would refund the charge. But instead of refunding the charge she charged our credit card 240.00. Thank God it was at its credit limit! Or I am sure she would have charged more! Well when I went to use that card to charge our gas it would not go through. So I contact our credit card comp. & that is when I found out that we were charged 243.77 by the hotel.
So I contact the hotel & the manager states that they charged that because we smoked in the room because the cup I dumped the ashtray into! She was very clear that she would not refund the money & she said she is now certain, since I had so many problems with the hotel I would not be back! So I report this to my credit card comp & they are trying to get my money back. I also reported to Holiday Inn customer/guest relations & filed a complaint & was told they would inform the hotel not to dispute the charge or recharge the card.
But guess what, received a call from my credit card comp. saying the hotel is arguing & won't give the money back. So when I called guest relations they are now saying they cannot do anything for us or make the hotel give it back because they can't prove whether or not we smoked in the room! I would highly recommend anyone considering staying in the area to stay at the Comfort Inn, it is less than 5 miles up the road, & a top hotel compared to the low standards of this Holiday Inn Express.
Also I suggest to search reviews of the Holiday Inn Express in all areas as you will see the hundreds of neg. reviews usually involving being overcharged or ripped off! I would like to note.. my son is atypical (not the average typical asthmatic) & any type of direct smoke (actual visible smoke that can be inhaled) usually will cause an asthma attack, not the stale smell of smoke. My son did not have an asthma attack while at the hotel. I only mentioned the room smelling of smoke because it smelled of smoke.
When the manager said they were 100% smoke-free I pointed out that the staff was seen smoking in the lobby & outside. My main concern & complaint was that the hotel staff was displaying what I feel was not appropriate behavior for any type of business that children are present at. After writing this review I did read someone else review from Nov 2008 that stated a similar experience with the staff socializing with nonguest members. So this appears to be the type of atmosphere one can expect from this hotel.
For some that is not a problem but I for one, it was because I had my children along. For the hotel, that type of behavior should not be excused or expected. The manager became defensive & aggressive & created the trumped up fraudulent charge... I am 100% certain it was because I complained.
As a follow-up as I am uncertain how to post that.. I would like to say, my husband never has nor would smoke around our son. Nor does our son ride in my husband Jeep often. We had no option but to take the Jeep because of the amount of snow & my Spyder Eclipse does not get around in the snow. Affections was a term I felt was better suited than to say groping & kissing by a member of the hotel staff. As for me bringing the cigarette smoke smell to the manager's attention, it was a secondary issue because the real issue involved the manager & she was very aggressive & rude.
I am certain many who read this will understand it is often easy to be upset about a secondary issue (the smell of smoke) because I was bothered about the main issue. Plus I am not the one advertising my husband's Jeep as being 100% smoke-free but the hotel is advertising their hotel is 100% smoke-free. As for the kissing, & the staff & nonguest socializing in what should be for paying guest area, yes that was the real issue. By the staff doing so the atmosphere was not family friendly, which is the reason for my review.
It would not have been made an issue if my children were not along. Though I still would not have felt comfortable going to the lobby / lounge area & though I most likely would not have made an issue to the manager of the behavior of the hotel staff including herself, I still would not have felt it was or is OK for someone working at the hotel to act as if it is their own personal playground. Some types of work environments this is acceptable & expected but the Holiday Inn Express should not be one of them.
Please note.. the manager for the york pa. hotel will only follow up to customers with decent or good reviews but not to the ones with complaints. Also though the Holiday Inn guest relations will take your complaint, in the end they don't do anything about it & just refers you back to the hotel that you had the problem with!
I was trying to plan a trip for my girlfriend and I to New York. We normally love to stay at the Holiday Inn Express wherever we go. I am currently a member of their rewards program. I emailed the reward redemption section of their website and explained that I will be staying 7 consecutive nights on the road. Not necessarily in the same town. My only question to them was that if we stay all 7 nights in their hotel chain, would we receive a free night of stay?
This is a copy/paste of the response from them: "Thank you for taking the time to contact the Priority Club Rewards Service Centre. Unfortunately we will not be able to honor your reservation request at this time due to time constraints of communication via e-mail".
Time constraints of communication via e-mail? What the heck is that? I wasn't planning the trip until Summer. Where is the time constraint in that?
MIDLAND, MICHIGAN -- On December 15th, 2006 our hockey team checked into the Holiday Inn located at 1500 W Wackerly St. in Midland, Michigan. We were to stay 2 nights and had reserved the Black and White room for a Christmas dinner for the team. On Friday night December 15th, 2006 our coach had informed us that the children needed to be in bed at 9:00 pm for an early game Saturday morning. After putting the kids to bed a few of us parents wanted to kick back and relax and play some Texas Hold'em.
We had never been to this hotel before and we were not sure where to go and play, so I suggested the Black/white room where we would be holding our dinner the following night. This particular room is also used for the continental breakfast in the morning. We all gathered in this room and began to sort out poker chips to begin playing and an employee of the Holiday Inn came into the area and stated that we could not play there because she had to get the room ready for the continental breakfast the next day, I explained to her that we would not be there long maybe only an hour would that be OK, I thought she said yes and then she left the room.
Here is where it gets ugly, about 10 minutes later two men approached us in this room acting like a couple of bouncers. One's name was ** the other **. ** proceeded to point at us and accuse us of gambling and told us it was illegal in this hotel and we had to leave this area. At that point, I told him we were not gambling and who does he think he is accusing us. There was not even a card dealt yet. ** then decided that this excuse was not going to work so he told us that we could not have alcohol in the bar area, that was against the law and we had to leave this area.
One of the other parents then stood up and said, "No. This is the black and white room we are not in the bar." At this point frustration is building on both parties. And a parent had asked ** "Where we could go and play?" And his response was "Anywhere but here." And again we asked him, "Where can we go?" And ** responded "Anywhere but here!" He said that several times. Well this made one of the parents angry, "Why couldn't this person just suggest somewhere for us to go and play cards?"
So this parent took out of his pocket $2,500.00 and told ** if he just let us sit and play he would put that money on the bar and we would buy our drinks from the bar and put ours away. ** refused the money and the parent called him a stupid, stupid man for letting his hotel lose $2500.00. ** did not like that and threatened to call the police and he exited the room. ** then told us we could go over to the pool area and play cards; you could imagine the look on our face when he said that. Why in the world couldn't ** had just said that instead of acting like some tough guy?
So all of us parents picked up our stuff and proceeded to the pool area and began playing cards. I realized a few moments later that I had forgotten something in the black and white room and I went back to get it. When I came around the corner there were 2 police officers at the counter, I asked if they were here for us and the police stated yes. I explained my version of what took place and how ** was the worst manager ever and that his customer service was terrible.
After hearing my side the police asked me what they should do and I told them nothing, we know where to play and that's where we are in the pool area. I thought the situation had resolved itself and I went back to the table and began playing cards. We played for about 15 minutes when the police officers approached our table and had told the parent who called ** a stupid man he had to leave the premises immediately. We just couldn't believe it; he was in his pyjamas and bare feet and had 4 small children sleeping. We were asking the police on what grounds they have for removing this person from this hotel at 11:00 at night. They said it was upon the request of the manager **.
Never at any point was ** ever threatened or touched, it simply was a disagreement. After the parent was escorted out of the hotel, I approached the front counter and stated that this was absurd and our hockey team, all 16 rooms would be checking out in the morning and we would be canceling our party. We were not going to give this hotel another penny, in fact I told them I work for a Lawyer and I was going to do my best to find a way for us to get reimbursed tonight's stay.
I asked ** for a copy of the hotels policies and procedures and he told me he didn't have one available. He would have to bring it me. I wanted to know on what grounds ** had for removing this parent from this hotel. Needless to say, ** never brought me a copy of the policy/procedures. The next morning I went to the front desk again and asked for a copy of the policy and procedures and ** refused to give them to me.
Through this ordeal several times we had asked from the very beginning in the black/white room to get us someone in charge or above ** and every time we were told we had to wait until Monday. This all could have been avoided had ** not entered that room with a chip on his shoulder. If he would have kindly said "Hey folks I'm sorry you can't play in here, but you could go over to the pool area and play." None of this would have ever happened. Your Hotel would not have lost $1,440 for the rooms and $500.00 for the dinner party and another $2500.00 for the bar.
I can assure you we will never use that hotel again and if this is an example of how Holiday Inns run their establishments, then we as a team will not use them for our travels. I have never in my life been treated so badly by a hotel staff as we were treated here. Those employees should be ashamed of themselves and their behavior. They owe that parent they threw out an apology.
SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN -- My family stayed at the Holiday Inn, Southfield, Michigan in February during the Super Bowl. We had some horrible experiences. Our last evening we came back to the hotel after being out for the day. We had reported that we had lost one of our passkeys and asked that they be changed. The front desk personnel explained to us that they would have to change the passkeys for both our rooms even though the rooms weren't connected. They told us that it would take two hours to do this.
When we came back, they told us that we only had one room. Whoever on Holiday Inn's end had messed up when they put the reservation information in at the local hotel and closed us out of one of the rooms on our last full day. They finally fixed that and gave us the keys to our rooms. We went up to the rooms and neither one had been cleaned. One even had trash on the floor that someone else had left. We discovered that a laptop had been stolen from our room. We immediately reported it to the front desk and dealt with a very unhelpful employee. We also filed a report with the hotel security representative who tried his best to help us out.
We contacted the local police department and two detectives came out and filed a report. They explained to the representative at the front desk that the hotel was responsible for the laptop since we had reported a lost key and we were locked out of our rooms for the afternoon. We spend our last evening dealing with the police, security and dirty rooms, with no help from the front desk except for her to hand us a few towels. The girl at the front desk stated that the front desk manager would be in the next morning. The police also removed the food wrapper left in our room to dust for fingerprints.
The next morning when we checked out we asked to speak with the front desk manager who happened not to be there. Later that day we received a message on our phone that our laptop had been "recovered". I spend the next several days making long distance phone calls dealing with people from representatives from the front desk to the hotel's manager. I was fortunate to deal with a few very helpful individuals, however, the majority of them were people that had either no authority or did not know anything about our case, and I had trouble getting anyone who was in authority or who knew the details of our case to call me back.
After a week and a half we finally received our laptop back. I suspect that we finally started getting a response after I contacted the Corporate Office and filed a complaint. I was told first that a maid had removed the laptop from our room to secure it and "forgot" to tell her boss that she had done this. When I refused to believe this story, the manager investigated the case more, and found out that a helper to the maid who is not allowed in the room and who was supposed to be in another part of the hotel somehow got into our room and took the laptop.
We also discovered that for at least two hours after we reported a lost passkey card that our room was accessible using that card even though we were told that the code had to be changed on both our rooms. (Supposedly they were auditing the rooms that afternoon.) We were told that the maid lied and said she cleaned our rooms because she wanted to leave early that day. We were told that the people at the front desk had not updated our information earlier in the day when they were discovered that both rooms were supposed to be occupied that night.
It seems like this hotel has a LOT of problems. (Like the fire alarm going off during the Super Bowl because they had torches going inside near the indoor pool.) The hotel paid to have our laptop checked out and the battery replaced since somehow our new battery was ruined. The corporate office tried to tell me that they were sending us $50 in complimentary coupons even though they had done nothing wrong. I believe the police are still proceeding with the case.
The last time I talked to the police however, the manager at Holiday Inn hadn't even updated the police on the information she had told me like they knew who had stole our laptop, what his name was and the fact that he had been fired for this. The front desk manager told me that they are charged $175 with each complaint that corporate gets on them and that week they had received four. It seems funny to me that we can have an experience like this and that all we get is our laptop repaired and $50 in coupons and the corporate office gets $175. They ruined at least our last day.
We also did not get the services we paid for - clean rooms, service, etc. plus knowing that someone who was not supposed to be in your room had been in there and stolen stuff and left trash behind. Rooms are a lot more expensive than $50 in coupons a night and we had two rooms! I was VERY disappointed with the corporate office.
We have stayed in many different hotels over the years in many different states and countries and this is the first experience like this that we have had. As far as I am concerned, I will try to stay clear of Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express. Even though all of these hotels have different managers, I was very unimpressed by their Corporate Office.
They gave me the impression that what happened was somehow our fault. We were told that we shouldn't leave anything of value in our rooms. Well we didn't leave money or jewelry, but we figured a laptop would be safe. Should we not even leave our clothes there either? If you are providing a service, people have to be assured that they and their property are at least safe. Maybe the coporate office acted like this because they were afraid of a lawsuit or maybe they just don't care. Either way, my advise is to stay away from Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express. Nobody wants to be staying in a hotel that doesn't stand behind their product!
LAWRENCE, KANSAS -- Celebrating New Year's Eve at the Lawrence Holidome has been our family tradition for 4 consecutive years now. In fact, this has been tradition year after year for several families. However, due to the way management handled some changes they've made we will never return.
This originally became our tradition for several reasons: wonderful customer service towards both adults and children and the extra amenities offered just for New Year's Eve. The extra amenities have always included keeping all of the holidome activities (pool, arcade, billiards and mini golf) open until midnight when they usually close at 10pm, keeping the breakfast buffet open until noon the following morning when it usually closes at 11am, offering banquet tables to be rented and placed in the holidome for use until midnight and a discount on the breakfast buffet.
This year, the only thing being offered was the discount on the breakfast buffet but no one was told upon making reservations or upon check in that the other amenities were not being offered this year. We were all led to believe that we were paying for these extra amenities just as we had in years past. At check in I said that I wanted to rent a banquet table for the night; offering the hotel more of my money. I was told that I could not rent a banquet table because all of the catering staff had gone home for the day. No one was available to set it up.
I felt like this was an excuse since I had seen managers setting up banquet tables in years past. But, if they didn't want my money I was happy to keep it. So, just as we had the three years before we set up at a table in the pool area. We found out that the party at the table next to us had been denied a banquet table as well. Then, at 9:50 pm we were all informed by a maintenance man that the pool and the rest of the holidome amenities would be closing at 10pm. It was no problem that the rules had changed but I was upset that we were not notified until 10 minutes before the rule change went into effect!
I asked the maintenance man why they had changed the rules. He said there was no rule change; that they've always closed everything at 10pm. I said, "Not on New Year's Eve. For the past three years our family has enjoyed our midnight toast right here at this very table on New Year's Eve." He just shrugged his shoulders and said, "New management, new rules." I really didn't appreciate that he had lied by trying to claim that they had never kept the place open until midnight for New Year's Eve.
Everything was shut down at 10pm and they turned the lights off. So, those guests who were able to pay extra for the banquet tables had to eat, socialize and toast the coming of the New Year in the dark! Upon seeing that I was glad they didn't allow me to rent one.
A few minutes later my husband ran into one of the managers in the hallway. He asked why the rules had changed. We didn't understand because the party had never gotten out of control. It was just families swimming, playing mini golf, eating and hanging out until midnight. No one have ever gotten hurt or drunk; at least not that we knew of. So when he asked why the rule change the manager said the same thing that the maintenance man said, "There was no rule change, they had always shut everything down at 10pm on New Year's Eve."
My husband told him that this had been a tradition for us so we knew this was untrue. The manager still insisted that they had never offered the extra amenities on New Year's Eve. My husband said, "For the past three years we've enjoyed our midnight toast at that table (pointing). We have it on video." The manager just shrugged and said, "Sorry." My husband went on to tell him that we felt deceived since none of this was mentioned at the time we made our reservation or at check in. And now, he and his employees were trying to lie to everyone about the whole thing. He also let the manager know that other families had already been to the front desk to complain.
After all of this we will not be returning. We understand that in this economy cutbacks need to be made. But customers should be informed of these cutbacks rather than being surprised with them. Be honest and upfront with customers BEFORE you take their money and you will retain loyalty.
OTSEGO, MINNESOTA -- Here is an e-mail chain summarizing what we experienced:
Dissatisfaction does not even begin to cover what I experienced at your hotel during my last visit and although I appreciate 4000 courtesy points, they mean absolutely nothing to me and this honestly demonstrates a severe lack of concern for my family and I considering what happened to us if this is actually your idea of compensating me for my losses. I have been to your facility several times with no incident, but what happened during my last stay was inexcusable and I expect to be reimbursement for my loss….
We were treated with disrespect by your staff. The desk clerk used profanity while addressing my wife in front of our children. The kids were unable to use the water park most of the evening due to the cleaning of vomit and feces from the water on two separate occasions that evening and would not go back in when it was cleaned because they were scared.
My entire family was startled out of bed 3 times late that evening due to loud parties above us and we received no support from your team despite multiple pleas for help, he just argued with me and made no attempt to remove the disturbance or to move us to another room.
My wife and I eventually had to pack up 3 little kids in the middle of the night and check in to the Super 8 down the road where we were able to sleep peacefully for the remainder of the night and decided to handle this situation with upper management at a more convenient time.
To summarize, my wife and I were humiliated, my children were traumatized and I had to spend $400.00 between 2 hotels and dining in one evening to get a nights sleep, I don't expect to be compensated for my stay at the second hotel as that was my decision, but I thoroughly expect to be compensated for my short disturbing stay with you. I expect a response from your team with your plan to correct this situation or I will push this to whatever levels I need to until I feel I have been treated fairly
Hotel Response:
Dear Mr. Huey, Thank you for contacting Guest Relations again regarding the Holiday Inn Minneapolis Northwest - Elk River, MN. We appreciate your additional comments and regret any further inconvenience you may have experienced. Your additional comments have been forwarded to the hotel and the details of this experience will remain on file in Guest Relations for future review. In addition, in an effort to retain your patronage, I have requested a check be sent to you in the amount of $100.00, on the hotel's behalf. This check represents a refund of the parts of your stay that you were dissatisfied with. You will receive it under separate cover within the next 10-14 business days.
You really need to re-evaluate how you treat people in certain situations, these e-mails are very insensitive and indicate to me that you have very little concern for what my family and I experienced on your property. The assistant GM called me and I felt as if I was being interrogated asking the same questions I had already answered days before, she then told me she would call me back and instead I receive an e-mail from you basically stating "take these 4000 points or $100.00 and forget it happened", I understand that you are probably just following protocol, but I do not feel satisfied. I would like to see my entire stay for that evening refunded to my card and a letter of apology from the clerk that was on duty and nothing more or less, I do not feel that this is too much to ask considering what my family experienced that evening.
Hotel Response:
While we certainly regret the experience you had, the compensation that has already been issued is appropriate and supports our Hospitality Promise. In addition, your comments will remain on file at a corporate level, for use in periodic evaluations of the hotel.
I disagree as I do not feel compensation for one room and a simple apology is too much to ask for what happened and I am very disappointed with how you treat your guests, not only will we never be a "guest" in your hotel again, I will make certain that this incident is made public to everyone I know and everyone I meet from this day forward. My family and friends have been pressuring me to bring this to the attention of the media and I have kept them at bay telling them that you will do the right thing and that is no longer the situation after reading your most recent response so I am now very much looking forward to making this as public as I possibly can. After this happened it is really amazing how many people I have talked to that have also experienced unpleasant situations with your hotel and/or your staff and are willing to also come forward to discuss the rude behavior, poor conditions, the recklessness form intoxicated people in the water park on the weekends and the consumption of alcohol by minors so let me make this promise to you.
"I promise to devote all my free time to bringing this matter into the public eye by any means possible, I will be in contact with all local news channels, InterContinental, post comments and our e-mail communications on blogs all over the web, the BBB and recruit as many people on board to help me spread the word as I possibly can."


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Charles Green, 50 hold per National Crime Information Center hit teletype
Ciara Alexis Craft, 20 violation of probation
William Keith Hamilton Jr., 26 assault and battery, armed robbery
Crystal Nicole Campbell, 29 assault and battery
James Casey Sellers, 28 possession of other controlled substance
Melvin Walker, 58 driving under the influence, driving under suspension fourth offense
Keith Louis Seymour, 27 criminal domestic violence
Austin James Harrell, 21 disorderly conduct, receiving stolen goods value $2,000 or less
Shannon Elaine Warneke, 19 unlawful carry of a firearm, receiving stolen goods
Tequilla Latrice Coates, 18 shoplifting $2,000 or less
Krystina Brooke Shuttleworth, 24 possession of controlled substance two counts, public drunk
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Lester Stanley Jackson III, 30 failure to appear and pay two counts
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Anthony Jerome Wise, 36 criminal domestic violence, failure to appear and pay
Tony Edwin Lott, 59 driving under suspension third offense, possession of other controlled substance
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July 19, 2013
If you've ever enjoyed a world-renowned play at Arizona State University's Gammage theater, you've probably taken a program or two home. But did you ever wonder about the trees that made those programs? ASU Gammage did.
Each year, ASU Gammage prints close to 350,000 programs. That's a lot of trees.
To chip away at the impact, ASU Gammage has printed its programs and other marketing materials on FSC-certified paper with soy-based inks since 2010.
June 5, 2013
Sitting in your gray cubicle, writing a note on a Post-it using a bright red pen so you really remember to email Stan tomorrow and what happens? The ink in that plastic pen runs out just when you finish the "t" in "Stan." Now what will you do with the pen? A trash can is right below your desk, but what if your red pen could give life to a new blue pen?
Enter ASU's Materials Management team
In 2009, a group of employees from ASU Stores and Mail Services saw unwanted office supplies piling up in the trash and decided to do something about it. Back then, Mail Services was already collecting CDs, VHS tapes, and cell phones while ASU Stores was gathering toner cartridges for recycling. When the two departments merged in 2011 to create ASU Materials Management, their recycling and reuse efforts multiplied. Since then, the team has saved 400 pounds of CDs, DVDs, plastic jewel cases, more than 150 cell phones, and over 17,000 toner cartridges from the landfill—not to mention countless pens, markers, and rubber bands.
April 25, 2013
A small orchestra is playing "Pomp and Circumstance," everyone is in maroon, and your parents are waving their hands frantically in the stands. You've come a long way, kid. It's time to graduate college.
You not only will be graduating from Arizona State University; you'll be graduating with a degree from the School of Sustainability. We think that's pretty cool. And to add to your efforts, we've made your graduation as sustainable as it can be.
Recently, ASU partnered with Herff Jones to offer caps and gowns made from 100% recycled materials. Called "Renew" caps and gowns, the Repreve® yarn is mostly sourced from post-consumer plastic bottles. Each gown removes approximately 29 plastic bottles from the landfill. How awesome is that? Even better, when you purchase your cap and gown at the Sun Devil Campus Stores or through Herff Jones, you receive a one-year membership to the ASU Alumni Association.
April 2, 2013
Earth Day is Monday, April 22, but Arizona State University is making the whole month of April a time to celebrate the natural world we all depend on. The Tempe and Polytechnic campuses feature a wide variety of events for Earth Month 2013 that you can get involved in.
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– Wrigley Lectures featuring England's resident climate change expert Sir Crispin Tickell and science historian Naomi Oreskes
– Sustainability Series discussions with Local First Arizona's Kimber Lanning and ASU's Morrison Institute co-founder Richard Morrison
– film screenings of "A Fierce Green Fire" and "A Place at the Table: One Nation, Underfed"
– backyard date palm harvesting workshops
– Earth Week Festival
– Farmers Market @ the ASU Tempe campus
– local community gardening
– southwest storytelling workshop
– organic food eating contest
March 8, 2013
A conversation with Kim Grout, Sustainability Concierge
When you walk through the third floor doors at Wrigley Hall, a petite, brown-haired lady named Kim Grout will most likely greet you. She's the Sustainability Scientists and Scholars concierge, meaning; she coordinates meetings, flights, accommodations, and coffee runs to help them save the world.
Kim knows her sustainability stuff. She lives about 5 miles away from where she works at the Global Institute of Sustainability, but she either bikes or runs every morning and evening, Monday through Friday. The food she makes is from scratch or comes from her local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). She and her husband recently installed a solar water heater in their home and sometimes they cook meals in their solar oven. After work, Kim tends to her chickens—which are excellent scorpion killers and provide great compost for her garden. Not to mention fresh eggs.
Kim says she learned how to lessen her impact on the planet from her mom.
"I have been living this way since I was a child," she says. "My mother was always very savvy about such things. She made everything from scratch, including yogurt, mayonnaise, bread, and ice cream. We also had a garden, chickens, and horses."
February 14, 2013
We all know Wrigley Hall is sustainable and energy-efficient—but what about the Energizer Bunnies® inside the building?
Sustainability is not just about technology, economics, and biodiversity. It's about people, too. ASU's University Sustainability Practices knows that sustainable behavior is just as important as green buildings. That's why it's organized the Wrigley Building Energy Challenge from February 1 through April 30.
The Wrigley Building Energy Challenge aims to reduce energy consumption through the combined efforts made by the people inside the building: students, sustainability scientists, staff, and faculty. The main goal of the challenge—other than reducing energy usage—is to inspire energy efficiency through behavioral change, not through building modifications.
February 6, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Orange Mall, west of the MU fountain
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
At the Farmers Market @ the Tempe campus, guest vendors will have special products for you or a friend. Flowers Direct will provide fresh flowers. Peppermint Jim will delight us with his farm grown mint personal care products while Polished Pepper will feature jewelry made from re-purposed silverware and precious stones.
ASU Sun Devil Dining will offer chocolate-dipped strawberries, heart-shaped chocolate chip cookies, brownies, Valentine's cookies and cupcakes, heart-shaped vegan brownies, and Campus Harvest Devilade and Arnold Palmers made out of campus oranges. Udderly Natural and G.B. Proudfoot's will provide natural soaps, lotions, and more. Rich, chocolate truffles made from the finest ingredients will be on hand from our featured vendor, bNaked Chocolates. Yum!
February 4, 2013
Director, GlobalResolve
Co-Founder, InnovationSpace
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering
The sustainability movement is gaining momentum, but to keep the momentum going, it is important to prepare future sustainability leaders with a proper educational background. How does one teach the subject of sustainability?
In this talk, Mark Henderson and Micah Lande will share select projects from The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts' InnovationSpace and College of Technology and Innovation's GlobalResolve. These project-based programs build on real-world issues and utilize collaborative, student-centered teaching practices to provide powerful learning approaches to sustainability education. Henderson and Lande will identify strategies for instructors to successfully design and implement project-based programs and highlight educational opportunities for students.
Mark Henderson is a professor of engineering at the College of Technology and Innovation and associate dean of Barrett, The Honors College. His research focuses on computer-aided design and engineering. Micah Lande is an assistant professor of engineering and editor-in-chief emeritus of Ambidextrous Journal of Design.
A Sustainability Series event presented by the Global Institute of Sustainability.
December 20, 2012
Most five year olds may be more concerned with cartoon TV shows rather than their neighborhood community garden. But Braden Kay started his life mission early – at a local youth garden when he was just a kid.
"I grew up in Washington, D.C., and saw the challenges of providing quality services to an economically and racially segregated city," he says. "From starting at the local youth garden at age five, I always wanted to be part of producing solutions that bring diverse people together to make their city better with opportunity for all."
Kay says it was ASU President Michael Crow's vision of Arizona State University as a New American University that drew him to the School of Sustainability to study urban development and sustainability challenges.
"The School of Sustainability provided me with the opportunity I was looking for – to become a world-class urban solution developer," he says.
December 20, 2012
Tim Exposito's interest in construction is nothing new. At 16, he helped his brother build a house. In high school, he worked at a cousin's construction business. During his high school senior year, Exposito spent his mornings at a construction site and his afternoons in the classroom.
His passion for sustainability has always been there, too.
"I've always written papers about recycling, impacts and implications," Exposito says. "Sustainability has always been a fascination of mine. It's always been a goal of mine to reuse something instead of throwing it away. I do this in construction and everyday as much as possible."
Now, Exposito gets to combine construction and sustainability in his career.
December 20, 2012
Growing up in Phoenix, sustainability and Spanish literature senior Kim Pearson was first introduced to the basics of sustainability through class projects on issues such as deforestation.
"I first heard the term, 'sustainability' when watching a documentary and I thought, 'Now I can give a name to what I've been interested in all these years,'" she says.
Pearson is graduating from the School of Sustainability with an emphasis in sustainable economics because she wants to understand the economic policies behind agriculture and trade.
"I have been interested in sustainability concepts since elementary school, as I began to learn about environmental issues and their relation to human behavior, politics and economics," Pearson says.
December 17, 2012
Need some inspiration to make your holidays more sustainable this year? Take some advice from Arizona State University students, who came up with some pretty cool ideas!
December 10, 2012
Let's take a break from studying for finals and stressing out about work to really ponder what this season means. No matter what you celebrate, all the holidays bring together family, friends, and strangers. But let's bring in another companion or two and include the natural world in the festivities.
The holidays in general are consumptive, more than usual. Decorations, gifts, baking, and parties all have their own set of impacts. So this year, we bring you some green holiday ideas that you can even apply after the celebrations. Ideas inspired by Earth911.
November 5, 2012
ASU faculty member Phillip Stafford challenges his colleagues to implement clean energy at home. Stafford shares how he's achieved a $12 annual electricity bill for his 5,000-square-foot, Phoenix home. To get off the grid, Stafford recently upgraded the photovoltaic (PV) solar panels on his home that generate more than 12,000 watts of electricity. He also uses LED lights, has two hot water heaters, uses mostly battery-powered lawn tools and has planted dozens of desert shade trees around his house. Stafford says that the high, upfront costs definitely are paying off.
Have questions for Stafford? Visit his ASU directory page.
October 24, 2012
Finally, the air has a bite to it, you can do homework outside, and the occasional breeze lets you know fall is here. And soon, the first holiday of the season: Halloween.
Halloween by definition is a one-time use kind of holiday, with revelers rarely reusing (woah, that's a lot of R's, almost like reduce, reuse, and recycle) their past costumes and decorations. Not to mention, leftover candy—but that would be gross. And normally when you think of Halloween, you don't say "Hey, I think I am going to donate money to save big cats instead of buying a new costume" or "Where can I get a locally-grown pumpkin?" But we know you guys are wondering that!
So, we've scoured the internet and attempted to bring everything sustainable to you, for your Halloween pleasure. Check out the links below to get inspired to do some good while partying hard as Captain Planet or Rachel Carson.
October 1, 2012
Such a simple sentence, yet so much meaning. That is what most students in the School of Sustainability want to do. At the School's 2012 Fall Welcome, new freshman and transfer students mingled while eating free Chipotle burritos, met Dean and United Nations Champion of the Earth, Sander van der Leeuw (cue new student excitement: "That's so cool!"), and pondered their futures.
Arnaud Irakoze was born in Burundi, Africa, a country right below Rwanda. He is now a Phoenician, getting used to the heat like other newbies. Interested in solar power, Irakoze chose to explore the Sustainable Energy, Materials, and Technology challenge area. "Phoenix is hot and sunny so we might as well have solar power," he simply puts it.
April 24, 2012
The Parking and Transit department here at ASU recently completed all three levels of the Green Office Certification program on all four campuses! This was a blistering accomplishment indeed and the Sustainability Practices office really commends their efforts! Way to go green devils!
February 13, 2012
Yes, you heard correctly. Sun devils across the university are voluntarily giving up their meat-laden entrees each and every Monday in favor of meals that feature local, organic plant based meals. Why you might ask? The reasons for people vary greatly, but the most popular reasons we hear around the office include; health, animal welfare and global impact. Strike up a conversation today with a nearby foodie and maybe discover your own personal reason(s) for ditching meat one day out of the week.
October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween Sundevils! Hope you are off to a safe and fun holiday season. We know it's tradition to give away those individually wrapped candies on this ghoulish holiday but did you know most major candy companies get their cocoa from unsustainable sources? If it's not too late, opt for fair trade chocolate or skip the candy all together and try giving away little treasures instead. Check out this sweet (pun intended) website for more Halloween inspiration: http://www.greenhalloween.org/index.php?page=home
Do you have any ideas or tricks to greening your holiday that you'd like to share? Comment below!
October 3, 2011
In October of 2009, I happened across a Sustainability Fair on the MU patio during my lunch hour away from my faculty office in the ASU Counselor Training Center. Always intrigued by activities of the School of Sustainability, I browsed the booths and displays, sampling foods and collecting brochures. I talked to a group of students about the pledge tree they had displayed there. On each branch of the drawing of a tree were suggestions about living a greener lifestyle, and those who stopped by were invited to put a leaf on the tree on the branch that indicated a pledge they were willing to make. Trees so often inspire strong feelings in me, especially in the fall as the air finally cools and autumn colors glow. In October afternoon sunshine on an ASU patio, I was ready to make a pledge.
Several of the actions listed on the tree branches were things I knew I could or would do, like using cloth bags for grocery shopping, or riding places on my bike more often. But it made sense to pick one pledge of a new behavior to fully commit to doing every day. Since I drink coffee most every day, I stuck my pledge leaf to the tree branch indicating a commitment to carry a reusable mug for my coffee, rather than buying and throwing away a paper cup each time I stopped at a campus coffee shop. Since then I have brought my own mug from home most every work day, and I keep an extra mug in my office. I carry the mug with me, and I estimate that I buy one cup per weekday on average for almost two academic years now, so that means I have reduced my contribution to campus garbage by approximately 320 cups since I made my original pledge. That's a lot less trash from just one person!
Now I find myself noticing all the paper and plastic cups and food containers stuffed in overflowing campus trash cans, and I wonder what it would take to motivate more of the people who discarded them to pledge to bring their own reusable mugs and bowls. If ten more people who drink coffee at the same rate I do also brought reusable mugs, there would be 3200 less disposable cups in the trash over the next two years; one hundred more people would mean 32,000 less cups trashed. It takes some effort to develop the habit, but once established, it's not much work to bring one's own mug. I take the mugs home each night and stick them in the dishwasher, and I have a few mugs so I can grab one in the morning if the one from the day before isn't yet clean. It's become a habit, and the pledge I made increased my commitment to establishing the habit. I am interested to learn what could get more of us to bring reusable containers to hold our purchases rather than buying and trashing disposable containers with each new purchase. What would get you to make a sustainability pledge you will keep?
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The entire Aiken County delegation has offered support for a proposal shortening the state's legislative session, but the idea faces a few hurdles before being approved, according to S.C. Sen. Shane Massey.
"It's going to be tough," Massey said. "You have some traditionalists. To be honest, there are a lot of guys who just enjoy being there."
He explained that similar measures have moved through the S.C. House of Representatives before but have died in the Senate.
The bill is currently on the Senate calendar, but Massey couldn't pinpoint exactly when it would be up for debate.
He said the Senate would likely begin debating the state's budget soon and hoped the proposal would be considered by the full Senate sometime soon after that.
Sen. Tom Young noted that the state actually has one of the longest legislative sessions in the country.
"By shortening the session, it would require the General Assembly to get its work done quicker, and it would save taxpayers money," Young said.
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Aiken County Representatives Bill Clyburn, Bill Hixon, Roland Smith, Bill Taylor and Don Wells voted in favor of the measure, ultimately approved on a 91-9 vote. Democrats cast all nine votes against the House proposal.
Clyburn, the lone Democrat in the County's delegation, said he approved the measure because he felt it would save taxpayer money, as well as provide more time for constituent service.
Smith said he wholeheartedly agreed with the measure and noted that if ultimately signed into law, it would save taxpayers $50,000 each week the House is not in session. The savings would come from reimbursements for travel, he said.
The House bill does not make any adjustment to lawmakers' annual salaries.
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Use for quick seed starters and winter herbs inside.
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My first batch of seedlings looks quite healthy. The bottom-watering action is uniform (unlike a couple of other systems I've bought). Best of all, there is no mold - quite a difference from peat pots. I had no problem with assembly, and I am in my 70s with arthritic hands. A perfect score would depend on re-usability.
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I feel mixed about these little pots. Had high hopes for them. But because the fabric inside is a texture, the roots get caught on them and tear when you remove the cube from the pots. I'm thinking of placing a thin piece of cardboard on the bottom next time I use them.
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I used the 2" pots to start seeds in 2014 and am ordering two more for 2015. I loved using them! I started my tomatoes, squash, and eggplant in these. I found them easy to use: I lined up the holes on the bottom first before attaching the sides. It's best to use all of them in the tray so that they keep their square shape. The self-watering (wicking mat) was a nice feature for a novice seed starter. It was easy to lift up the tray to see if it needed more water. Once the plants were big enough, I transferred them to newspaper (origami) pots. It was easy to remove the baby plants and all of their soil without harming them or the roots. When the season was over, I rinsed them out and dried them outside. Then I stacked them flat and put them in a small box. I bought these because they're reusable and store flat. I'm so glad I did!
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the pots do not air prune roots at all, they actually entangle them on the sides and bottom, so you are actually ripping roots off when you remove them to plant. whats wrong with the regular plastic pots , you can see through the drainage holes when they are ready to transplant and that works just fine. This is an unecessary invention it really has no positive extra benefits compared to conventional pots. i say dont bother with these overpriced useless pots.
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I intended to use these pots for seedlings that had sprouted on pellets. However, the Velcro edges were very difficult to line up square. The material was too soft to function as a pot. Worst of all, they were too small to be of any use anyway. Completely bad idea.
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I ordered two sets of the pot kit. They came with instructions on putting together the pots, but nothing about using the tray. For example, should I put water in the tray first, then the capillary mat, then pots? I first tried placing filled pots onto a dry tray and I think I run the risk of floating the seeds out of the medium. It seems obvious after making the mistake, but wish I had the Peel-away seed starting kit guide for dummies. My young son helped put together one kit and it was an example of why the pots need to be square (so that all 12 fit into one tray). I bought the red color, which is rather attractive, but may prove to be a sub-optimal choice later if the soil stains them. I plan to update after more use.
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