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  • Address: 524 Fourth Avenue Seward, AK 99664
Property Type: Hotel
  • Lodging offering guest rooms, a 24-hour front desk and a variety of services and amenities.
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( 4-5 of 5 )
“stinking service at the Marathon”

Marathon View

Jun 12, 2008

We arrived at 12:30 in the night and checked in to stay for 2 nights. The rooms did not look clean with the dirty green checkered carpet in the bedroom with queen bed. Then again, where do i hang my coats, there are no hangers provided and so we dumped them on a chair. We pulled the sofa bed and found the covered vellux blanket had stains, eww. Of course no clean extra sheets provided. We woke up the next day for shower and found the shower door is only supported with the top hinges, so wobbly and extra careful monitoring required when small kids are in there. we went out and came at around 6:00 to find all the sheets undone, no house keeping either. Kids wanted to watch TV, oopsy cable doesn't work. no internet service either thru the night when we tried to plan for some reservations for the next day.

This pissed me enough, i went to talk to the hotel management lady, her response for everything , "I am so sorry, I am so sorry".
The worst , she didn't even provide the hangers nor did she offer changing the stained sheets. I came to the room and had to go back and request her for clean sheets(BTW, the lady said may be the house keeping forgot to change them) and hangers, guess what, she didn't have any hangers, she got them from other rooms........

I even asked her if i could cancel my 2nd night here, but ofcourse she said the rules don't allow. I paid 175$ a night for an extra lousy service. We were expecting a decent and clean place to stay with our kids.

U want to stay here, u be the judge.

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TexasSoup's Summary
Date of Stay: June 2008
Member since: June 12, 2008
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“Better Choices”

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1 of 5 stars
Mason City, Iowa
Aug 9, 2005
8/10 found this review helpful

A warning to travelers booking a room at the Marathon View.

My room was booked three months in advance of our visit.
A room with a queen bed and fold out sofa.
Operators would not pick up their phone when we tried to verify our reservations, the entire week before our visit.

Upon arrival, the room they tried to give us looked like a damp Iowa root cellar with a queen size brick with a filthy, worn bedspread on it, and no fold out sofa.

When told "Well,..this is all we have." We told them we had been calling for over a week to make sure we were set. Why wouldn't anyone pick up the phone ?
The kid taking care of business said he "tried to".
Take that for what it's worth.

Then he said, "Well,..if you want to look around for another place we'll refund your charges...but it's Saturday..and everything in town is probably booked. We'll be leaving in about thirty minutes.(so you better hurry)"

We found a much better place..easily.
Went for our refund, recieved it..and as this transaction was taking place...the business phone rang...and rang...and rang.
The clerk said, "I'm not answering that."

And I said: "If you had answered the phone when we called, this B.S. could have been avoided."

He said "Sorry"

Which pretty much sums up the Marathon View.

" SORRY "

This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC.
This TripAdvisor Member's Summary
Date of Stay: July 2005
Member since: August 09, 2005
  • My ratings for this hotel are:
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Management Response
Alissa V., Operations Manager
(Management representative)
Aug 16, 2005
Well my apologies go out to you as I did speak with you. I did speak with this guest. When I spoke with the guest she gave me the phone number she had been trying to call which was a different number than our facilities, which is unfortunately why she never reached us. We have a 24 hour toll-free number for assistance as well as our onsite number and onsite office. Our phones ring at 2 offices at the same time so that if our onsite manager is with a customer, then another customer service representative can answer the phones as was explained to the guest. Our rooms are condo style rooms all with queen beds. The one and 2 bedrooms rooms have a queen bed in each of the bedrooms and a queen sofa sleeper in the living room. The studio (which is what you had reserved) states that it is a studio with a queen bed and a kitchen and that it accomodates 2 people. All of our rooms have been completely remodeled and are very comfortable with new furnishings including serta pillowtop mattresses (not sure how that is considered rock hard). We are a small business operator and we are in a small town. We cannot offer big city value priced hotel rooms in a small vacation town when we are offering vacation condo rentals. The guest was shown a copy of the reservation that was sent to us when the room was booked and the guest disagreed with it (even though it had the guest name and contact information). The guest was offered to provide us with a copy of your reservation that showed that the reservation was for a different kind of room and was not able to produce and still has yet to contact us again. Unfortunately some people cannot be pleased no matter what you offer and this is one of those circumstances.
We certainly have tried to resolve this issue but the guest has been unresponsive.
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