Emme V.
Yelp
Short story: steer clear. The entire place is full of incompetent, phony, apathetic, and/or angry trolls. It is clear from the top-down, that they think putting a bunch of trendy MCM furniture and random Indy related items in a building downtown absolves them from terrible customer service, so I'm here to help you avoid similar dissatisfactory experiences, as they do not deserve your business. Whenever I brought up concerns, all I got was either (1) phony BS that they thought I wanted to hear, but didn't match their actions; (2) the runaround on why they continued to fail us; or (3) straight up apathy.
Ours was the first wedding held here, and I cannot believe how many things went wrong for a 12 person event that was meticulously planned over 5 months. We got married in the Cannon Ball on a Monday because the Lounge is closed on Sundays and Mondays, meaning we wouldn't have to worry about time. They didn't even clean until 1.5 hours before our event even though they were closed the day before and knew we were getting married at 11 AM. Our "dedicated event coordinator" Alisha disappeared 15 minutes into our scheduled 8 hour block, with no communication that she was going to leave. She either disregarded all of our plans, or never passed them along to the person who took her place for the remainder of the day. Imagine having to fill an event planner you've never met in on all the details of your wedding that you planned for 5 months with a person who disappeared and never said anything nor reached out to you for the rest of the day. The "dedicated bartender" Marin was only around maybe 50% of the time, and most of that time was to help us pack up to leave as if she was happy to see us leave. What a waste of the mandatory $150 fee, not to mention she did not keep track of the drinks properly at all. When it came time to settle the bill, they tried to charge us again for the room, and didn't even notice that all they had to charge us for were the appetizers and drinks. Their stupid mistake ended up being in our favor, but this is the type of negligence you can expect: from not tracking drinks at all to not even knowing what to include in the final reconciliation. I never heard anything from Alisha since the day of my wedding despite reaching out to her and the hotel. Not an explanation, not an apology, not a statement of accountability, nothing. Given her boss Tina's indifference and mediocre customer service, I am unfortunately not surprised. Also, the director of operations Gordon was so incredibly rude, and even intentionally closed the elevator doors on my husband while he was carrying a large, heavy decoration. Again, unfortunately pretty on par for this hotel.
As far as staying at the hotel goes, the valet parking is a joke, and the valets always seem confused when people pull up. At one point, someone told me he kept forgetting I'm not a Lyft even though I don't have any ride share markers on my car. Another valet literally gave me my keys instead of pulling my car up because the lot is right outside, and my car was steps away. I gave my event coordinator (the one who disappeared) a list of guests whose valet parking I would pay for, and I guess she never passed it along because the valets were confused multiple times, and one of my guests was even accosted by a front desk manager. I don't know why the front desk person chose to discriminate against this particular guest, but I brought it to the hotel's attention, and nothing was done to my knowledge, so definitely don't support a place that judges well-intentioned guests for no reason when they should have had her on a list anyway. But of course, it got worse. When I asked for a luggage rack for one of the 2 rooms I reserved, I was told they don't have any. First of all, the 2nd room had one, and second of all, what kind of hotel doesn't have luggage racks? I never got one even though I was told they'd find one and send it up. Housekeeping didn't service one of the rooms despite the sign not being out, and my sister calling down to ask that the room be serviced. They serviced the other room I had, AND THREW AWAY MY THINGS that weren't even near the trash can. The boxes they threw away were primarily for my wedding decorations and included our marriage license in a large white envelope with the words MARRIAGE LICENSE on the front. There were items in the boxes they threw away, and it took two attempts to get our belongings back. Our marriage license envelope was covered with grease stains. All that aside, the hotel is loud, both the Lounge upstairs and the surrounding area; The Hulman staff are unprofessional, slow, and never seem to know what's going on when you can even find them; and the hotel didn't even have one room ready until 45 AFTER check-in time despite us telling them we were there. And I still don't have all my points despite giving the hotel my Bonvoy account number 3 times!