A lodge proprietor accused of incorrectly withholding hundreds of {dollars} in safety bonds denies doing something mistaken.
Consumer Protection WA has issued an alert to these contemplating a keep on the Perth City Apartment Hotel after receiving a number of complaints.
Perth resident Sophie Mills needed an reasonably priced room to remain in for her twenty second birthday and at $120 an evening she selected the lodging supplier in West Perth.
“It was a cheap place for me and the girls to stay one night while we were planning to go to an event out in the city,” Mills mentioned.
It required a $300 safety bond that she says she by no means received again.
“They had said that they found smoking ashes on the window sill… none of us are smokers in the group either so we were very surprised,” Mills mentioned.
The apprentice electrician despatched a photograph as proof from lodge proprietor Eddie Kamil.
“The photo shows no ashes on the window sill at all,” Mills mentioned.
The former visitor’s grievance was one among 17 despatched to Consumer Protection WA that the lodge has saved bonds with out good cause.
“What we’re seeing here though is excuses like they left the linen dirty or the towels dirty or there was cigarette ash on the window sill,” Consumer Protection commissioner Trish Blake mentioned.
Some of the primary complaints date again to 2020.
Consumer safety mentioned thus far not a single one that has reported their bond loss has acquired their a reimbursement.
Hotel proprietor Eddie Kamil mentioned he was conscious of the complaints however stood by his firm’s coverage.
“Next time when they book a place, I suggest they follow the policy and don’t smoke in the rooms,” Kamil mentioned.
Kamil was additionally within the highlight final 12 months when 9News revealed he tried to cost the state authorities for accommodating the homeless.
