"If you still think of Salt Lake City, Utah as a second-rate provincial town — well, maybe it’s better that way, because you’ll have all the more opportunity to be pleasantly surprised by the current state of the place. No one is going to mistake it for Los Angeles or Chicago any time soon, but it’s a more modern, open, and tolerant city than most people give it credit for. And the fact that it’s got a hotel like the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City is proof that there’s plenty for a well-traveled, cosmopolitan guest to love about Utah’s biggest city." - Tablet Hotels