I had a very unpleasant experience.
On Monday, July 21, 2025, I booked four rooms with three different booking IDs for Kingston Hotel 1 @ Bukit Bintang via Traveloka.
Booking ID number 1270488xxx for two Deluxe Twin Rooms
1270489xxx for one Deluxe Queen Room
1270507xxx for one Deluxe Queen Room
4 rooms in total.
In our booking, we had provided a note that we would be checking in late at night.
Landing at KLIA at 10:00 PM, we headed to the hotel and arrived around midnight.
However, the hotel reception only offered three rooms, claiming that only three bookings had been entered into their system, while booking ID number 1270507xxx for one Deluxe Queen Room in the name of PMM was not recorded in their system. (It could have been a fault with the hotel booking app)
With heavy hearts, we requested three available room keys. We were disappointed to find that only two rooms were available. The third room, even after three attempts (up and down from the room to the lobby) wouldn't open. We were shocked when the receptionist tried to open it with the main access card, but there was another occupant in the room.
After waiting for almost 30 minutes, they finally gave us another room (which I assumed was a spare room, as the elevator only goes to the 6th floor, and the room was on the 7th floor, requiring stairs, contrary to the elevator stated in my booking).
That same evening, I contacted Traveloka using the app, and was eventually contacted via WhatsApp by the Traveloka team to address my complaint. I asked the Traveloka team to speak with the hotel receptionist, and they admitted there were only three rooms available. However, the hotel ultimately provided an additional room, but it's a single bed, different from my order (I assumed it was hotel policy, as it was late at night and we were short on rooms). So the focus of my complaint to the hotel is why there are residents in the room given to us?