About a month ago I called the place my DS desperately wanted his birthday party at to book. Gave all details over the phone, guy said the date I wanted was available etc he then said that they were in the process of changing their website and stuff and that he wasn’t at the venue at that moment so he wasn’t in a position to fully confirm or take a deposit but he would call me the following week (when he was at the venue) to take a deposit and confirm and arrange for me to get invitations from them etc etc Ok no problem.
I never heard anything the following week so I called them, no answer. Called again, no answer. Dh an I both called the venue around 10 times in total and I drove to the venue 3 times to do everything in person, each time venue was closed.
As the party date was getting closer and we’d need to start to invite ds’s friends soon we decided there was nothing else we could do and assumed the place had closed or something, no idea really
We didn’t send out any invites and explained to an upset ds that the place had never got back to us and we couldn’t get through to them so the party wasn’t going ahead. We just thought how on earth can we invite 15 kids to a party, have them all turn up with no certainty that the party was even happening.
Fast forward to the day that the party was supposed to be we get a call from an unknown mobile number and a very angry person on the other end asking where the hell we were and that he’d got staff here as they’re expecting a party and being really aggressive down the phone!
Dh and I totally baffled by the call as apart from that initial call of “yes that date is available but I’m not at the venue right now and our website is being revamped so I can’t confirm just now but give me your number and I’ll call you next week and we’ll finalise the booking, take deposit...” that was our only contact. I really feel we did our best to confirm this party and we were met with a brick wall each time. Have we BU here? Feel gutted for DS and he so wanted this party and all along it could have gone ahead had they been contactable/venue open when their stated times said they should have been. Totally pissed off at the whole situation tbh
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TruJay · 02/03/2019 18:24
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