Palace Resorts owes us over $3000 and they wont reimburse us. Warning.

ekcmexico · September 21, 2010

Please see my post here: http://www.bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/thread/64069/warning-about-palace-resorts#post_1437313

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I just want to warn people about using them as we are due $3000 that we need for our honeymoon and to repair our roof and Palace Resorts is completely ignoring us for weeks. They overcharged us and never reimbursed us for their mistake. Additionally we never got the credit due to us for filling our room block per our contract. We will be getting a lawyer involved if this doesn't get fixed within the next couple of weeks. It has been 3 weeks without a response from them.

ekcmexico · September 24, 2010

Here is a clip from my wedding coordinator's complaint letter detailing everything:

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My clients, Mr. and Mrs. Coker, and I are awaiting assistance to problematic oversight which occurred at the Palace Playacar. The couple brought a group of about 40 family and friend to celebrate their wedding at this property. Problems began upon arrival when there was a "mix-up" with the couple's Resort Dollars, which were supposed to go to their wedding, and instead the coupled incurred costs against that balance which ultimately had them paying for a portion of their wedding out of pocket. Albeit they were quite amenable to the process of paying the difference of what was left over, I still found it troublesome that money was supposed to have been allocated and sufficed as the balance of their wedding bill prior to their arrival, as this was the agreement that we had with their Wedding Sales coordinator in Miami, Lauren Negrin as well as the on-site coordinator, Dulce Hernandez.

Additionally, my clients were gracious to pre-pay for some nights for specific guests in their party. Unfortunately, some CC forms for the group were never filed to pay off the balance of the room for one guest, which in turn caused the guest to pay for this out of pocket. Instead of being able to credit the guest and bill the client as was the initial agreement, we were told to just pay them out of pocket.

While these things are tedious, timestaking and granted, frustrating, the ultimate offense has occurred with my clients being billed erroneously and in some occasions repeatedly, as well as a severe lack in customer service. It is impossible to get a finite answer from anyone in the Miami office-- I have been repeatedly emailing and calling. Finally I got a hold of the Sales Coordinator, Lauren Negrin and she says that she has sent it to her supervisor who is now in touch with someone at the resort-- we have never received a personal call or email; it is always me that has to follow up about this substantial amount of money for my clients. While in Riviera Maya, we were told that all of these things could quickly be handled and a refunds would be credited from the Miami office.

Herein is where the problem lies:

On April 5, 2010, my clients paid for 6 nights up front for their stay. However, my clients had fulfilled their obligation for their 75+ Room Nights and are due a refund of $2232, instead of this being applied to the room nights (2232)

The clients paid for half of the wedding up front on March 8th, 2010; the agreement prior to the clients' arrival was that their remaining vacation dollars were to pay for the remainder of the wedding. However, as mentioned before, this was never done, so other things that the clients were going to bill to their room or to their credit card caused said items to be neglected from their vacation dollar balance. As also stated, the clients, while inconvenienced, worked around and paid the remainder of the balance for the wedding. However, they were charged for the full wedding package instead of the balance that was owed. (1187.50)
This gives a total refund of 3419.50 that is owed to my clients.

These are careless oversights, endless finger-pointing over who indeed is in charge of what and along with the lack of communication from practically any one at Palace Resorts, this makes the experience almost offensive. My clients are set to go on their honeymoon, and now have to suffer from this lack of attention to detail as their funds are depleted and after their wedding, they continually have to fight their way to get someone to even acknowledge their communication, let alone help them fix the error.