I arrived here on a Thursday evening, together with friends. We booked two rooms, and were accommodated by the staff. Reception is nothing special, the hotel is cheap, the elevator very small, very slow and dirty. Then when I arrived at my room on the third floor, my room had a funny smell but seemed to be clean. Unfortunately, there was no sound proofing, so you could hear the music playing outside until 01.30 A.M. in the morning. The room was very hot and the aircon seemed to be too small to be able to cool down the room properly. The bed was quite hard and the bed sheets had holes here and there due to aging. It was too hot anyway to sleep under the sheets. After I took a shower, and came back late at night after dinner, I noticed in the bathroom some giant cockroaches that crawled out of the shower drainage, sitting on the bathroom floor. I immediately notified the reception staff, who brought two spray cans. One for the cockroaches and one for the bad smell. The reception guy sprayed the cans around in both the bedroom and the bathroom. Then left the spray cans with me, saying that they couldn't give me another room until the next morning. If I would see more cockroaches I could use the spray cans. Also the bad smell in the room kept coming back. I asked the guy if he could smell it and he said yes. The spray can didn't seem to be effective to kill the cockroaches or keep them away. There were even more cockroaches at the other drainage near the toilet. Disgusted by the way that I was left in a room in this state, I decided to go to a better hotel with higher standards, while my other friend stayed in his room. So then I went down and explained to the reception guy outside on the porch that I was leaving because the cans were no use, and I didn't want to stay a full night at that room, since he was unable/unwilling to give me another room until next morning. I said that I wanted a refund and he said "ok". So after that I went to a much better hotel in the middle of the night and was able to continue my holiday in Pattaya without any issues. The reception desk at The Venue then told my friend upon checkout on Sunday that he needed to contact the manager in order to get my refund. Also, on Sunday apparently they don't have any breakfast served, so my friend had to look outside for some food. Then a few days later, my friend told me that the management replied to his email, saying that they refuse the refund because the hotel wasn't fully booked and that the reception staff offered me to transfer to another room right away instead of the next morning. I was shocked that they simply refused to give a refund based on lies. I will never go back there again. There are many much better hotels and resorts in Pattaya. You may be offered a cheap price, but you get what you pay for. The way the reception staff and the management handled the situation is outrageous, and I won't go back to this place ever again. I'm sure they don't even care.
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