Already off to a bad start, right? We're just getting warmed up here.
Over three breathless paragraphs, lovnhawaii outlined all manner of complaints, focusing on a reception desk employee named Emma.
Apparently, Emma said that the hotel only had a double bed left and that there were no other hotels in town. She then found a room with a bathroom for disabled people, a double bed, and a single bed, raised the price, and duped the weary travelers into booking the room.
And it's quite obvious that he's still fuming about the entire experience as he writes this strongly worded review.
I hate to stereotype here, but is anyone else picturing a bar run by angry old leprechauns?
Whoa, there, looks like we have a serious food critic in the house.
The floors and carpets were filthy. And when they drove around, they saw many other places with vacancy. A pretty bad review all around, right? How could anyone defend that?
"They advertise for free wifi. It is the worst wifi ever!!!"
Nothing ruins a vacation faster than not being able to sit in your hotel room on Netflix the whole time, am I right?
And so he sharpened his Irish wit and put pen to paper for an epic reply.
Well, at least we can say that the manager is nothing if not open to constructive criticism.
This is about to get real sassy.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and these people look like a charming bunch to me!
Did he just call this reviewer a liar? Oh, snap.
"We are 100% certain that Emma made a genuine mistake, as sometimes people do, and we feel it is very unfair and irresponsible of you to call her a liar and dishonest on a public forum."
Wait, so lovnhawaii got a discount and an apology, and then decided to write up a cutting review? Nasty.
"I'm sensing a lot of anger in the review above and I know that you probably didn't mean to let loose all that anger on us. Hey, sometimes people just need to vent."
"I'm not saying howling into the night like a wolf will work for you, I don’t know your circumstances, you may have neighbours that’ll think it is weird, but there are other ways of channelling rage that don't have to involve Hotel Doolin and slandering Emma."
"In the meantime, to anybody else reading this review. DO NOT COME TO DOOLIN IF WIFI IS MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU THAN HUMAN INTERACTION, YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED."
"Paul, Martin, and Luis will be blindfolded and shot in the back of the head at Fitz’s Cross after mass this Sunday."
"I know this will not make up for what happened to you but we hope it will go some way towards showing you that we take your feedback seriously."
"You see, even though you hurt us deeply with your review, we'd still like to be friends, we'd love if you afforded us the opportunity to change your opinion of us and hope that you will return to Doolin someday."
"We'd love if you could make it (that lying cheating ruffian Emma won’t be there, we promise)," he concluded.
This woman, in particular, has only compliments for the chef.
Talk about turning bad publicity into good publicity, eh? Looks like that bad review really backfired.
And Hotel Doolin is well loved because they tend to treat their guests well, even with their crappy wifi. Reviews like lovnhawaii's are few and far between for them.
What do you think? Was Donal right to stick up for his staff, or is the customer always right?
Let us know in the comments!