Staymore Studio
Owner Sonana Runs Staymore Hotel Like His Own Prison

Staymore Studio 2407 West Vine Street Kissimmee, FL 34741
Phone: (407) 480-5000, Fax: (407) 480-5001 kiss34741@staymore.com

"100% Smoke Free" - I guess that means that the smoke is included...

Http://www.staymore.com/location-kissimmee.php

I was a resident at this Extended Stay Hotel from 01/10 to 07/08 and would have stayed longer but I found living conditions there to be intolerable.

Towards the end of my stay and one reason I left, the laundry facilities that were working when I arrived there and as promised on the website, remained broken for over 9 weeks leaving residents and staff who also lived there no way to clean clothes. I have to think this was done intentionally since earlier in my stay I had one person ask me to "Step Outside" the laundry room and he ordered me not to do my laundry there but to go behind Home Depot, I found it odd. It sure looks like this was part of Sonana's soap opera he was scripting out over there, read on it gets better.

Despite what their website says, see the attachment from their website that promises a "100% Smoke Free Facility", almost all the residents there smoked, including the maintenance staff. I am allergic to the smoke and had people hanging around outside my door all the time, blowing smoke all over the place, it was too much.

The owner would engage in odd turf war behaviors, walking from his office as though he was going to run into me, and at one point standing to talk to me with his nose almost touching mine. I think designed to intimidate me and to impress upon me that this is "His show and not mine". Combine that with his team of "Enforcers", it all added up to an unsavory lot of nonsense. This included some out of town idiots such as this person from NJ who showed up and claimed to be friends with the "Security Guard" Fred Heymans. Tim drove a Green Toyota Camry with a NJ Plate YXP-66X and was an all around pain in the back, wiseguy, rude, obnoxious, and generally more important than anyone else there and he let everyone know how important he was. Tim obviously was a "Business Man" and with that mattered more than we plebes who lived there. Tim once walked into my unit as the door was open, and as I watched the sun set, he asked me as though I am a mental midget "Do you have a TV down there you are looking at?". Tim went on to comment that he "Is a legend in his own mind" and that "His opinion is the only one that matters" and with that I wished him a good night since I had enough of him for certain. This went on with Tim running around all hours constantly talking on his cell phone, his voice so loud the WHOLE place could hear him, running back and forth 100's of times a day past my door, hanging around outside it, around the corner, etc etc etc and finally one day, not only did Tim see imaginary televisions in people's rooms, he then imagined that people bump into him when they walk past. Once while leaving the office, Sonana looks to have arranged this also since the computer and table that Tim was standing at were adjacent to a double door at the back of the office and for some reason the side opposite the computer was locked leaving the one closest the only way out. Of course this would be less convenient and cause a choke point, probably the idea. Anyway, Tim as I walked past, in view of the owner and Fred the "Security Guard", as I walked out the door past him, claimed I had "Bumped into him" which I did not and he went on to throw a fit, calling me names, implying that I am rude, not that we ever spoke other than this time and when he just walked into my room and now he imagines that someone "Bumped into him". He raised his hand to me as I walked out as he was going to punch me in the back of the head, and then followed me out with his face as red as ever, he usually looks as though he is strung out on Meth or something since he is FAR too aggressive and it looks like his blood pressure is constantly 400/200, in other words he looks like he has some kind of problem which he clearly does. Not that if I had bumped into him that it would matter, certainly these things probably do happen, but in any event I never even touched him but now he wants to actually start a fight with me. If this was my hotel, he would have been asked to leave or more likely arrested. But nobody I guess saw anything, even though they stood right there and watched it go on, so it seems this was the plan all along. Likely that this is part of Sonana's game and this Tim person is his friend and part of his want to play God in his human Ant Farm he runs down there.

A former NYS and Florida State Trooper and I guess corrections officer also lived there, John Gentile, and his foul mouth and obscene dialog as well as sophomoric and puerile crap went on constantly within earshot of kids who likely need not be exposed to the profanity and other toilet humor and trash talk that was part of his daily vernacular. It really was too much and I was sick of him within the first week. Nonetheless, the remained there no doubt after I left and he was just another piece of trash we all had to contend with.

Fred Heymans was supposed to be the security guard as well as tasked with doing maintenance duties around the place and after getting to know him better, it seemed as though Sonana expected Fred to work 24/7 since this really was his schedule. It was obvious that since Fred was a Belgian citizen and not US, that he had no Green Card nor a valid Visa, that Sonana was taking advantage of him.in this case both Sonana and Heymans are wrong, in that the boss should know better than to pay someone in cash and keep them there illegally and Fred was an all around thug, bully, smoked like a fiend, and was drunk almost 24/7 as well. I attempted to get to know him better but it was soon obvious that Fred can not have any friends since he became violent when drunk. He would refuse to honor any boundaries I set as to my privacy and quiet time, getting mad and sulking when I would not answer the door if I was tired or doing something else, as though I was OBLIGATED to drop everything and be there for him at any time. He would come over to my room constantly and eventually it was too much. Fred eventually threatened me once in a drunken fit that he'd break my legs if I stood up, and this really was it for he and I. Fred, since he had authority there, would abuse it in this way with other guests who he'd pressure for favors, sexual, and otherwise, and of course they'd comply because they did not want to be tossed out in the middle of the night when this pit bull decided he wanted something from you. All in all, it was completely inappropriate, and this is not the place you'd want to bring your wife and kids to. Fred really offered all manner of delusional dialog, offering that his wife, who he was not married to who lived back in NY was worth "Billions", owning both Water Caye and Tobacco Caye off the coast of Belize, Gold mines in Brazil, and eventually Fred confided in me that his religion was centered around a belief in "Aliens". So with the lies, and other abuse that went on, I decided that this person, this place, these people, are not worth the effort to get along with.

In addition, in order to completely diminish or otherwise disrespect what I had been through, I am a victim of violence and spousal battery, etc, anything you have been through, Fred has been through more. Fred works 80 hours/day, and every bar room fight, brawl, or event where he has beaten man, woman, or child bloody, really just makes you and I a big wimp. Since Fred is a wife beater and a drunk, I must be one also, and this was the general idea of entertaining all of this foolishness. For what that is worth, Fred and I are two different people and this has nothing to do with me, despite what Sonana and his cast of characters think.

After living here for those many months it sure seems as though this was all designed to play on my vanity at some level where Sonana was supposed to look like my abusive boss, Srihari back at SUNY Buffalo, I was supposed to be the abused employee, Fred, and with that I must suffer all his shame and this would be an attempt to toss Fred mud on my character. A female resident named Karma Shockley would round all that out for you Hindu aficionados and with the sexual relationship between her mother Kelley (Green? Fighting Irish? Tim Kiely?) Shockley and Fred Heymans, the whole thing looked to be an unofficial attempt to "Arrest" me no doubt for their efforts to start a fight with me. That is how I saw it since it was being done intentionally.

Other concerns I encountered:

Filthy pillows looking as though someone or something had urinated all over them.

Doors that did not seal allowing bugs and dust to enter constantly. You could dust and mop the floor daily and it would still never be clean. This also ensured that I could enjoy all that 100% free second hand smoke coming into my room.

No BBQ grills as indicated by the owner, probably too busy saving money to purchase new umbrellas instead of fixing the washing machines.

Housekeeping staff that would run around telling rumors about guests and was caught taking things from their rooms. Going so far as to stalking them before they left hoping to see what she could pick up from them that they left behind. This person, who I had never met before, was telling others that I was "Insane" and "Looney". No doubt so she could add to her collection of 1000 coffee pots and 10,000 opened and half full packages of salt and pepper she feels a need to horde from guest's rooms once they leave.

No cordless phones or voice mail as indicated on the website, I actually had NO phone service at all, not even local calls, I only could call the office.

Later in my stay it would be alluded to that I would be leaving I guess since conveniently the online reservation system became broken this way management could make the excuse that nobody uses the computer to reserve rooms there and as such it would probably obviate the errors and non-truths contained on the website. It also made it impossible to reserve the room for sure or to know the rate, how convenient.

Constant hinting that Fred would be getting his Visa papers soon and that everyone was quitting smoking too, so without admitting anything was wrong, they were going to fix it so it would seem.

Company: Staymore Studio
Country: USA
State: Florida
City: Kissimmee
Address: 2407 West Vine Street
Phone: 4074805000
Site: staymore.com

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