We arrived at 2:17pm after a long trip. We were not allowed to check-in until 3pm on the dot. I have travelled for over 30 years and this is the first time I was told to wait when arriving less than an hour before check-in time. The room was clean and available. They just chose to not let us in. Once they did, the key didn’t work in our door to get into the room. We inserted the card and the light turned green but the door would not open when we pushed down on the handle. Come to find out, instead of pushing the door handle down and opening the door as you universally do in all other hotels we have stayed at, you had to instead push the handle up for the door to open, yet no one told us these non-universal instructions when we checked-in so that we would know to do things differently. We found out because a circulatingchambermaid said “for your room you have to push the door handle up instead of down”. It was specific to our room, not all the rooms. I think something must have broken with the door handle and they make-shift fixed it and the only way it would work was to put it back together upside down, so you have to push the handle up instead of down. They were very unaccomodating and did not provide needed instructions, so we won’t come back.