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Now It's The Eden Roc's Turn for a Hotel Management Shakedown

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 4525 Collins Avenue [map], Miami Beach, FL, United States, 33140
April 3, 2012 at 9:04 AM | by | Comment (1)

Ruh-roh. There's even more trouble in Miami Beach.

Just after we learned about the Setai Shakedown, we saw that the owners of another Miami hotel that made our sexiest bathrooms list, The Eden Roc Renassiance Hotel, are now suing Marriott Hotels and their Renaissance brand for grossly mismanaging the hotel after an extensive renovation. Business Week has this choice bit from the hotel owners' lawsuit:

“In the face of Renaissance’s failures, Eden Roc has quite literally shoveled money into the project to make up for Renaissance’s incompetence,” Eden Roc said in the complaint. “And while Eden Roc loses its shirt, Renaissance and its parent company and guarantor, Marriott International, have lined their pockets with management fees.”

Eden Roc is particularly pissed that after investing $300 million in the hotel, including $240 million for a massive makeover, Renaissance filled up the hotel with discount bookings, causing the bottom line to fall far short of the $30-35 million projected profits.

So far, Marriott has not released any statement or comment on the lawsuit but we bet that will be forthcoming. On the bright side, at least Eden Roc didn't send a bunch of armed guards and off-duty police officers to the hotel in the middle of the night to kick out the Renaissance management team?

Indeed nothing has changed on the hotel's website. It's still a Renaissance and it's still offering 20 percent off stays booked by May 1. But it can't be all that bad.

Rooms are sold out next weekend but this weekend still had rooms at $359 a night. In two weeks, rooms are going for a steep $429 a night. Yet just to be safe, we'll say this story is to be continued....

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$359 & $429 per night does not sound like discount prices to me. There is always 2 sides to every story.
NCLeo on April 6, 2012 at 4:05 PM #Permalink

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