No, no response.
By now I don't really care anymore though, it is clear their views of guests now.
Thankyou for all your help and concern Amagribi, I guess I will just have to let my warning to fellow travellers stand, as we all witness yet another place spoiled by 'LP Our-pick-syndrome' :-(
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Yakkalot, you are either a liar or an idiot.
I've been reading Yakkalot's posts for years. I trust him more than probably any other poster here on Thorn Tree. Read his many posts and you will see he's neither a liar nor an idiot nor someone with an agenda. And, no, I'm not related to him. I couldn't even pick him out of a lineup.
OK Yakkalot, it seems I may owe you an apology.
It's just that I found it very strange that you felt suitably aggrieved by your experience to publicise it here on Thorn Tree yet weren't aggrieved enough at the time to report it directly to the hotel. (I don't accept that you had "limited time" or that the value of the items wasn't much - if it pissed you off enough to name and shame the hotel on a forum read by hundreds of travellers, then you should have had the common sense to break off your schedule and report it directly to the hotel. If you'd done that, they may have responded satisfactorily and immediately. As it is, you didn't give them that chance)
I speak as someone who worked and travelled in Egypt for six months, and who has travelled extensively throughout Syria. In all that time, I had only one incident involving the theft of something - a watch - from a hotel room. I dealt with it by approaching the manager, saying my watch was missing, and that if it had turned up by the end of the day, I would make no more of it, but if not I would report it to the police. Sure enough, within a few hours my watch had been mysteriously "found"(in a litter bin).
May I humbly suggest Yakkalot that if you have a similar experience in the future, you consider dealing with it in this manner before damaging the reputation of a possibly innocent hotel by make uncorroborated allegations.
Agree @ 12 that Yakkalot is one of the genuine posters on TT with lot of personal experience and based on ground realities (specially on Afghanistan).I as well do not doubt what he says,anyways.
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Jack, I'm not here to be judged by you.
There is no way I would've lost a day of my travels, something that I don't get very much of these days, to go and speak with the same people who just ripped me off while one of their mate's helped himself to my kit.
As it was I didn't get enough time in Syria for my likings, and if I had my time over, I still would've done the same.
The purpose of the TT is for tourists to come and share experience and receive advice for free from the global community.
This is me sharing what happened to me.
Regardless if I went back to confront them and they mysteriously 'found' my stuff in a bin too, the point is they took it in the first place and I feel other travellers should be warned.
Every action in life has consequences, and they should see that ripping off guests has consequences (although I'm sure they're too busy counting their money to care about little old me and this thread)
At the end of the day it cost you nothing to read this, so that is precisely how much right to complain about this you have.
Sincerely, Luke