Decaying Morals

My stay at Hampton Inn

Ξ August 1st, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ morals |

Here’s my letter to them back in June.

Dear Sir(s);

This is very, very wrong and until the Hilton Hotels cleans up their act, we are choosing to seek other accommodations when traveling. Not because an action group is against it, but because it happened to us, your long time customer!

I have always sought out finding a Hampton Inn when traveling around the country. I have always had good service and a pleasant stay at your hotels. I have since realized that Hampton Inns are owned by Hilton Hotels, but not before I made two reservations for this month. (I had heard that problems like mine have happened before in Hilton Hotels.) This weekend I stayed for my first reservation in Naperville, IL. If I wasn’t in charge of my elderly Mother in an enjoining room, and that are blocked off for my niece’s wedding, I would cancel my upcoming reservations. Here’s why.

While relaxing in our room after a long conference, we were flipping through channels on TV. With my children watching, I came to a channel that had the full width and length of the screen, a woman’s torso. She was naked. From the glimpse that we got before the TV permanently went off for the rest of our stay, this was not a fuzzy scene or shot from a movie. It was a blatant shot in an X-rated adult show or program. I do not know if it was on HBO or another type of channel like that, though.

I know that you have gotten emails before about this kind of content being shown in your hotels, but this was very personal to me. My wish is for you not to have this programming at all offered in your “family” hotels but I realize that you feel you are providing a service for those who want it. Here is my dilemma, why is the programming tuned into those programs per entering the room? If you KNOW that a channel has a propensity for having these kinds of adult programs, then you should make it available only for those who request it at the desk. I don’t understand how a quest has to get a special code at the desk to have internet access, but they are free to watch pornographic sites on your TVs!

I am still waiting for a response back from them and you can see what the date is.

As I said, I had to stay at a Hampton Inn for a wedding. I asked them to turn off the pornographic channel and they said that they couldn’t. It was HBO and they couldn’t turn off that channel. So we elected to keep it off. We haven’t stayed at one since or any other Hilton affiliate.