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I encountered a problem when I was staying in a hotel in Malaysia. Your valuable feedback would be highly appreciated. How can I make this letter more formal? ***** You recently stayed in a hotel and encountered a problem. A hotel receptionist helped you resolve the situation. Write a letter to the hotel manager and say - What was the problem? - How did the receptionist help you? - Suggest how this problem can be solved permanently. **** Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to inform you regarding an unsatisfactory experience that I endured upon my arrival at your hotel last week. My family and I were staying in your hotel from the 21st to the 24th of November. We made a booking for two double rooms three weeks in advance using your online reservation system. When I arrived at your hotel and asked the receptionist for the keys to our rooms, I was surprised to hear that no reservation in my name was in your system. After an eight-hour tiring flight from Tehran to Kuala Lumpur, this was not something that we had expected. Once your receptionist realized how frustrated we were, she asked for the payment receipt of our reservation which fortunately I had it in my pocket. After seeing the receipt, she managed to find us a quad room since all double rooms had already been booked. In order to prevent such problems from happening in the future, I would like to suggest that you audit your reservation system to find out why it is not storing some reservations. Were it not for your attentive receptionist, we would not have been able to resolve this problem and it could have ended differently. Yours faithfully, Adib Yz

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You made hardly any mistakes! Well done! Your writing is really good.

Dear Sir or Madam, 


correction suggestion word order

I am writing to inform you of an unsatisfactory experience / I am writing regarding an unsatisfactory experience to which I was subjected upon my arrival at your hotel last week.

My family and I were staying in your hotel from the 21st to the 24th of November. We made a booking for two double rooms three weeks in advance using your online reservation system. When I arrived at the hotel [you have already stated "your hotel" once, so the reader now knows whose hotel it is. From now on, you can just say "the hotel"] and asked the receptionist for the keys to our rooms, I was surprised to hear the receptionist inform me that no reservation in my name appeared to be in your system. [If you say "no reservation was there" that means it is a fact that it did not exist. Clearly, you dispute this. You do not agree! You remember making the reservation. Therefore, I think that it is best to say that no reservation appeared to be there. ]

After an eight-hour tiring flight from Tehran to Kuala Lumpur, being greeted with the claim that our hotel reservation did not exist was not something that we had expected. Once your receptionist realized how frustrated we were, she asked for the payment receipt from / for our reservation, which I fortunately had it in my pocket. [Your word order isn't wrong. "I fortunately had" and "fortunately I had" would both be correct. I just prefer writing it that way. Do not say "it" if you have already said "which". ] Upon being shown the receipt, she managed to find us a room, but we had to be given a quad room since all the double rooms had already been booked.

In order to prevent such problems from happening again in the future, I would like to respectfully suggest [using the adverb "respectfully" when making written requests makes the request sound more formal and polite] that you audit your reservation system to find out why it is not storing some reservations. Were it not for your sympathetic and accommodating / resourceful receptionist, ["attentive" is a very good word. Well done! I have suggested some synonyms that might be even more suited to this particular context, but "attentive" is already a great word to use] we [you were not the ones who solved the problem. Therefore, I think this part should be written in the passive voice] this problem might not have been resolved in a satisfactory manner and it could have ended differently.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Adib Yz

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I encountered a problem when I was staying in a hotel in Malaysia.

Your valuable feedback would be highly appreciated. How can I make this letter more formal?
*****
You recently stayed in a hotel and encountered a problem. A hotel receptionist helped you resolve the situation. Write a letter to the hotel manager and say
- What was the problem?
- How did the receptionist help you?
- Suggest how this problem can be solved permanently.
****
Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to inform you regarding an unsatisfactory experience that I endured upon my arrival at your hotel last week.

My family and I were staying in at your hotel from the 21st to the 24th of November. We made a booking for two double rooms, three weeks in advance using your online reservation system. When I arrived at your hotel and asked the receptionist for the keys to our rooms, I was surprised to hear that no reservation was in my name, was in on your system.

After an a tiring eight-hour tiring flight from Tehran to Kuala Lumpur, this was not something that we had expected. Once your receptionist realized how frustrated we were, she asked for the payment receipt of our reservation which, fortunately, I had it in my pocket. After seeing the receipt, she managed to find us a quad room since all double rooms had already been booked.

In order to prevent such problems from happening in the future, I would like to suggest that you audit your reservation system to find out why it is not storing some reservations. Were it not for your attentive receptionist, we would not have been able to resolve this problem and it could have ended differently.

Yours faithfully,
Adib Yz


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I think the writing is brilliant and as you can see, only minor corrections had to be made. 

Good luck!

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