Hotel service recovery

The Refund Demand

A guest is demanding a full refund, threatening to post about it, and everything they're saying is partly true

Your objective

Resolve the complaint in a way that is fair to the guest, defensible to hotel management, and does not establish a precedent for full refunds without genuine basis. Achieve a resolution the guest accepts without a full refund and without a damaging public post.

The counterpart

James — Guest

Temperament: The Dominator · Difficulty: advanced

Skills trained

  • reputational threat management
  • acknowledging without capitulating
  • discovery
  • retention framing
  • conditional concession

What a good run looks like

Score 70+ with agreement at your difficulty ceiling to unlock harder counterparts. Swanx coaches the exact phrases that cost you points — dimension by dimension.