Initially, a number of in-depth interviews, using the critical incident technique to identify services failures and recovery strategies, were conducted with business and leisure guests in the participating hotel. Respondents recalled personal experiences of a whole episode of a problematic hotel service and their dissatisfaction, complaining behavior and the hotel’s reaction to the problem, and what else the hotel could have done to improve its response. The findings from these interviews, together with evidence from the literature review, led to the development of a structured survey questionnaire.