Shane M.
Yelp
If you ever want a case study of how to not make money as a hotel, come stay here. We were part of a wedding party that selected this hotel for their wedding.
First the good: the bed was comfortable, the AC worked well, the showers were hot.
Jose and Felix in the bar and restaurant were hands down the highlights of the hotel, friendly and helpful at all times.
Now for the bad: the rooms are very very small, one of our rooms had two double beds and barely room to get dressed. the rooms were OK, but the painting and finish of the rooms and hotel was a little rough.
there is no pool or really any entertainment at this hotel other than a small bar.
the staff at the front desk were hit and miss, sometimes they could be helpful, but sometimes they were just flat out rude and acted like we were bothering them for common requests like "where are some good restaurants".
the hotel was booked for the weekend, so they knew it was going to be a full hotel, furthermore they knew it was at least one wedding party that would need the type of assistance wedding parties typically need. the night of the wedding, saturday, about 40 people from the wedding party came down to the bar for drinks, there was one bartender working on a saturday evening, most of the wedding party got tired of waiting for a drink after 30 minutes and departed for elsewhere. those that stayed got one drink in the 60-90 minutes we were there, eventually everyone got frustrated and left.
sunday morning as everyone was preparing to depart and needing breakfast, the restaurant was overwhelmed with 3 tables. as all 40-50 guests arrived in the restaurant, things ground to a halt, the 30 people in the restaurant waited well over an hour to get food, our table had about 15 people and we waited a full 2 hours from the time we sat down to the time our first food was served. we sat down a little after 9am, food was served a little after 11am and we were finally out of the restaurant by 11:45am, to say it was a disaster was an understatement. i watched the line into the restaurant form to about 15 people and then the waiter finally walked over and told them they would not be seated.
we were able to catch the hotels van to dinner on friday night, and were given a card to call for the reverse trip, (the driver was tipped $25 for a 5 minute drive to the restaurant). no one answered for the return trip, so we had to uber back in groups of 4 from dinner.
then on saturday morning we took the van from the hotel to the dallas aquarium, another 5 minute drive. we were given the return trip card again, and called multiple times, with no answer, we ended up just walking back from the aquarium with our kids.
the whole weekend was like watching a slow motion train wreck at this hotel. if given the choice, find somewhere besides an IHG property for your next stay.