This visit to the Europe hotel was chaotic, unwelcoming and hostile to the guests. We were not given a room with a double bed, as we had requested, and were then moved to a room where the electricity was not working, and nor was the air conditioning. The shower mechanism was incomprehensible, the tea/coffee-making facility consisted of one sachet of nescafe and one herbal teabag.
A lot of guests were complaining about the air-conditioning and we heard a receptionist shouting at them, rather than solving the problem. We were sitting in the bar on our first night, and the lights were suddenly turned off and the staff all walked out without a word to us. When we sent an email about all this to the hotel group manager, as we had been advised by one of the receptionists, the manager told all the staff off, and sent a bottle of wine to our room as compensation. We had no way to open it so reception sent someone to do that, and he seemed to expect a tip for his services – he clearly hadn't been told that this was our meagre compensation for all the bad things that had happened. The manager did not reply to us, or apologise or wish us a good stay.