A Hudson lodging establishment has been slammed with a tidal wave of bad publicity after The New York Post’s Page Six described a policy of fining wedding parties $500 per negative reviews on Yelp.

The Post’s story about the Union Street Guest House was quickly and gleefully picked up by Fox & Friends, TIME online, Business Insider, and others, leading to a raft of negative feedback on Yelp and Twitter. (This begs the question: Is all press really good press?)

The USGH’s longtime owner, former 3rd Ward Alderman Chris Wagoner, responded around noon to the outrage, noting that the proposed fine was for weddings only, had never been levied, and in any case was “tongue in cheek”:

The policy regarding wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago. It was meant to be taken down long ago and certainly was never enforced.

CANCEL AT YOUR OWN RISK! Cancellations must be made via email and you must receive a response from us for a cancellation to be accepted at all. cancel@unionstreetguesthouse.com. There will be a $35 charge for any cancellation (per room). Cancellation of a reservation must be made at least 15 days prior to your arrival date for a non wedding reservation to receive any type of refund. Cancellations made within 15 days will be charged for the entire length of stay. 100% of your reserved stay will be billed to your credit card when we accept your online booking. Early departures and changes in arrival dates are considered cancellations. We reserve the right to refund at any time. Wedding guests are not refunded until after the event.

We do not give credits for future stays. If we have not worked out a mutual agreement for a credit within 29 days from the date or your reservation we will no longer honor any type of refund. We do not refund any fees that may have been added to your charge.

NOTE: If your stay is longer than 3 days we do not accept cancellations of any kind.

Bed and Breakfasts generally suck.

Bed and Breakfasts generally suck.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Congrats on being better than me, Psycory.

Hudson is one of the worst towns in America. It is full of well-educated and affluent but intellectually bankrupt thirty-somethings who equate a certain kind of boutique-oriented conspicuous consumption and the use of innovative technologies and communication methods to forward politically centrist ideas with the attainment of a politically progressive identity.

When I intervewed for the job I have now I stayed at a BandB because the area doesn't have any other nice hotel. I was the only person staying there as it was a Wednesday...in March... in Pennsylvania. I hated it. No TV, no internet, and the next morning eating breakfast while making small talk with the owner is just about everything I hate in life.

I stayed at a B and B on Kodiak Island, Alaska on my honeymoon. The female proprietor wanted to sit there and talk about what brought her to Alaska while I'm trying to give her the bum's rush so I could get my fuck on. I bet she wasn't nearly as friendly to the next set of guests after having to burn those sheets from our visit.

I also went bear trekking.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Hudson is one of the worst towns in America. It is full of well-educated and affluent but intellectually bankrupt thirty-somethings who equate a certain kind of boutique-oriented conspicuous consumption and the use of innovative technologies and communication methods to forward politically centrist ideas with the attainment of a politically progressive identity.

I know Yelp claims they dont tamper with reviews, but they are LIARS! LIE, LIE, LIE.