Laura L.
Yelp
Wow...was expecting much more.
I'd heard such great things about the hotel. Was surprised there was no one manning the booth in the front drive-up, but that was okay...just wasn't sure what to expect.
Parked in general parking area, outside, and walked up. Not wanting to pay for valet, as we were only staying for one night.
Check-in was unusual, there were 4 or 5 desks with computers for check-in, but only one had an employee. We waited in a line with others (two families ahead of us) and upon our turn, was given no greeting, we had to speak first. He hardly made eye contact, when asking if any upgrades were available, he was silent for a long time, and said he only had an executive or presidential suite available. When asking if there was electric vehicle charging, the staff member said it was in the parking garage.
I did observe an employee on a floor above wiping between all the metal columns of the gate barrier looking over the atrium area.
The atrium area was very unusual, huge fake tree, and water flowing past fake plants and shrubs with odd taxidermy animals. There was a couple cockatiels in a cage. It was just a very unusual lobby.
The elevators were unreasonably slow. And it appeared that only one could be going at a time, though there were three available.
We were on the 8th floor. The room was relatively clean, but extremely dated. There was a counter with a sink by the bed. The light switches in the bathroom were, what I'd imagine, from the 70's and lit up pink when off. There was a labeled dial in the bathroom that stated "volume for television speaker", so I'm assuming you could listen to the tv if you were in that bathroom. There was a Keurig machine with two regular k-cups and two decaf k-cups, only one paper cup available, though. The bathtub was dated and stained in the bottom. The tile floors looked like what McDonald's had in the 90's. The hotel is in dire need of updating.
The bakery offered coffee and sweets, I purchased a chocolate croissant, with was almost $7 and was barely edible. Not sure how old it was.
We did drive down into the garage to see the electric vehicle charging, after winding around in a mostly deserted and quite scary garage, filled with dirty catering equipment and broken down refrigerators (not kidding, there were lots of them with paper labels, saying "not working") we found the "electric charger" which consisted of what looked like a dryer plug sticking out of the wall with a sign that said "please call the front desk to reserve, $25 a day"
Not what we expected for what we paid.
Very disappointing.