John H.
Yelp
I visit Miami minimum once a month, usually it's for two or three days, in this trip it is seven consecutive days. Are usually stay in the same area occasionally changing hotels, but I prefer to know where I'm staying and be familiar with it. Are usually stay at the Hampton Inn right next-door, but the newly opened AC Hotel looked promising and interesting.
When booking a trip the hotel was $150 less a night than the 5 foot away Hampton. I elected for the AC Hotel.
When I walked into the room I thought it was heavenly, the colors are cool and calm, the finish is well chosen, the room is edited, it's completely black without the lights on and everything seem to be in order.
I thought "This is going to be an enjoyable stay, as much as I have to be at work, this will be nice to come back to".
10 minutes later I found a piece of pepperoni on the floor, 5 feet away from it a dime, and then under the built-in bench long stringy hair. I realized that even though the hotel was only three weeks old, it wasn't very well-maintained.
I called and the front desk offered to switch rooms, but by then I had already completely unpacked and simply asked them to clean the floor. Moments later I found what appeared to be "mud", I am sincerely hoping it was "mud" dark brown and stuck to the floor near the bathroom, and not something else. Later in the day I found the hotel was accommodating and cleaned the floor. I go to bed, I wake up the next morning not to the soothing sounds of music or anything pleasant, but to what sound like an argument in the hallway. At first I thought there were two women badly and each other to the death in the hallway, when I open the door it was the maids having an extremely loud conversation when everyone was sleeping.
I'm going to stick with a three star rating for now, and revisit this at the end of the week, right now I would be doubtful if I was going to stay here again.
Update: so I'm on night number three and the housekeepers didn't touch the room even though I was gone for 10 hours. Didn't work on the bed, didn't take out the trash, didn't change the towels. When I went to the front desk to ask, she asked why name, she looked at my room number, she looked at me and said "did you ask them not to touch your room". My response was "no, like I asked then not to move the things in my room because they constantly touch my personal possessions". She looked at me as though I were crazy. Really. It doesn't surprise me that the constant Miami attitude is here as well, it's always the "it's your problem not mine" deadpan look. So, you have minimal expectations, But steel toes cannot even be met. So I returned from walk after asking for housekeeping to take care of the room, still nothing. This hotel is completely disorganized.