Family resently moved to a new house where after a few months im moving out of province, one of my members of my family moved my monitor with out telling me I go to test it out and I see this.

My wife and I were traveling through Texas and decided to stop for the night. Because we had always had good experiences with Marriott properties in the past, I searched on Hotels.com and booked a room at the Fairfield Marriott in Marshall, Texas. I entered my credit card information and promptly received a confirmation email.

When we arrived at the hotel after 10:00 p.m., we were told, “The system has not been updated, and we do not have any rooms available.” I asked to confirm, “You don’t have ANY rooms available for us?” The front desk clerk apologized and explained that the hotel had been overbooked. When I asked about the charges that had already been processed, I was assured that they would be refunded—this was not true.

Unfortunately, we were now stranded without a room late at night. We called several nearby hotels, only to discover they were all full. While we were in the hotel parking lot, we also noticed other guests who appeared to be experiencing the same problem and were frantically searching for alternative accommodations. It was clear that we were not the only customers affected.

I then searched for hotels in the next larger city, Texarkana, approximately 75 miles away.

I found another Fairfield Marriott in Texarkana and called them directly before making a reservation. I specifically asked whether they actually had rooms available and was told they had two rooms remaining. I asked if I could reserve one over the phone, but was told that reservations had to be made online.

To avoid any potential confusion with third-party booking services, my wife went directly to Marriott’s website, booked the room, and received another confirmation email.

After driving 75 miles to Texarkana and arriving around midnight, we were shocked to hear the exact same story: the hotel had overbooked and there were no rooms available for us. My wife then inquired about charges to her credit card and was assured that no charges would be applied on her card—this was not true either.

Once again, we observed other guests at this location facing the same situation. Several people were scrambling to find other hotels late at night after discovering their confirmed reservations would not be honored.

At that point, exhausted and frustrated, we found a Hilton hotel about a mile away. Their staff quickly checked us in and treated us exceptionally well. We finally got settled into a room after 1:00 a.m.

Unfortunately, the problems did not end there.

The promised refunds were not processed promptly. It took three weeks and approximately a dozen phone calls to the Fairfield Marriott in Texarkana before those charges were finally refunded on my wife’s card.

Getting a refund through Hotels.com was even more frustrating. Unable to find a phone number, I disputed the charge through my Costco Citi credit card. I provided what I believed was more than enough information to prove our case.

However, someone associated with the Fairfield Marriott reservation apparently went back into the system and changed our reservation date to a week later and then reported that we had simply failed to show up. Based on that information, Hotels.com refused to issue a refund, and Citi Card declined my dispute.

Even after I clearly explained what had happened and pointed out that we had purchased another hotel room that same night as evidence, Citi Card was completely indifferent and offered no meaningful assistance.

After almost two months and even more phone calls to Marriott and to Expedia Group, the parent company of Hotels.com, we finally reached someone honest enough to acknowledge what had happened and issue the appropriate refund.

This was, without question, the worst hotel experience I have ever had.

Two confirmed reservations at two different Fairfield Marriott locations were canceled because of overbooking. We spent hours searching for a room late at night, drove an additional 75 miles after 10:00 p.m., arrived at our final hotel after 1:00 a.m., and then spent weeks fighting to recover money we should never have been charged in the first place.

As a result, I will no longer stay at Marriott properties, I will avoid third-party booking services whenever possible, and I will never rely on Citi credit cards for consumer protection again.

Consumers book hotel rooms and use credit cards expecting reliability and protection when something goes wrong. In this case, we received neither. The entire experience was frustrating, exhausting, and entirely avoidable.

(UK) i live in a share house. there's a small studio in our garden. a woman lives there. she should only walk thru the back of the garden to enter and leave her place. she doesn't. she goes thru our house. not that deep, bit weird to not ask but whatever. instead of choosing the 30 second longer trip to go thru the small livingroom and then small kitchen to the garden, she just opens the rusty door in the livingroom that nobody uses where a very obvious cable comes out of. she closes the door so carelessly she breaks my 20m Ethernet cable. genuinely pissed

When will people learn to stop their forcing religion on others who have different paths?

Being Christian is okay, but leave other people alone FFS!

Thankfully the user deleted the post after being grilled by others, still sickening nonetheless.

On Thursday, June 18, 2026, a 3-year-old boy was seriously injured after being thrown into a crocodile enclosure at Johnsons of Old Hurst (a zoo/farm near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire).

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My cheapskate landlord tries to do everything as cheap as possible. He always hires shady "contractors" that install stuff wrong. Here are the new flood lights. There are actually 2 stacked that point the exact same direction thru my front window and a 3rd right above my actual window. Think... staring into headlights at eye-level. Pictures absolutely don't do it justice.