Anissa D.
Yelp
My bf was planning our Portland/Seattle trip and chose to stay at Hotel Interurban for the last four days of our trip since they offered free shuttle to the aiport. Therefore, we booked through Priceline (mistake)....
Before our visit, I had already read some of the negative reviews about the place but found them to be fairly minor since the hotel was brand new and given that it's brand spanking new, it does come with some kinks.
Anyhow, we arrived at Hotel Interurban and my first thought was, wow was this place nicee (modern, chic, and super new and up-to-date). Loved the color theme they had going on too with the gray and turqoise. The hotel was tall, sleek, and nice to look at. But here comes some of the problems we encountered.
We were at the lobby checking in when we found out that Priceline had a slip and didn't send over our reservation to the hotel.... So we ended up sitting at the lobby for ~30 minutes as they tried to fix the problem. Alexandra and Merlyn were the front desk ladies and they were really nice. Since our initial booking was never received, we had to do the whole registration there on the spot. But because the hotel was completely booked of the room we wanted, we got a free upgrade to a suite on the 10th floor! They also comped us a $25 inconvenience fee that can go towards their Waterleaf restaurant or parking which, speaking of, was a whopping $20 daily!! (wtfreakk....).
After we got our upgrade, Justin, (bellman and valet guy) helped brought our bags up to our room. He was really nice and gave us some recommendations on places to go to in Tukwila.
THE SUITEEE:
wow.... the suite was big. It had two rooms actually, a living room and a bedroom. The rooms were comfortably nice and had windows all around in the bedroom. The furnishigs were modern with the gray color theme. Bathroom looked clean and white! Everything looked nice. Seemed nice. But here comes the kinks. During the day, the room was nicely lit by the sun beaming in but as night comes, we realized there wasn't much lighting in the living room or lights in general.... The living room had two dim lamps for the whole room and it was just too dark and dim to even read. We had the bathroom light, hallway light, livingroom lamps, and TV on just for adequate lighting but it was still dim... The bathroom was nice and white until you look closely and see some yellow smears on the shower walls. House keeping definitely needs to clean it a bit better. And for the whole stay from check in to check out, we maintained to have 2 conditioner, soap, and a shower gel instead of the whole set of toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, soap, shower gel, bath salt, body lotion). House keeping didn't notice we were missing them the whole time nor did they restocked it..... (thank god I carried my own set of toiletries). And our tissue box holder was empty with no tissue box inside! :\
Now, even with those kinks, I still thought it didn't compare to the PILLOWSS..... those dreadful things are pretty useless. My bf and I kept waking up to turn the pillow throughout the night cause the pillows would like deflate and our head would sink into them. I didn't even realize until morning that I had actually kicked my pillow to the end of the bed and slept on the mattress instead. Pleaseee invest in some nicer pillows!
Other than that, Hotel Interurban definitely has a lot of potential. Even with the cons (the ridiculous $20/day valet fee, the bougie overpriced food at the Waterleaf Restaurant, the bad room lighting, and crappy pillows), I did enjoy my stay here cause of the upgrade, the staff (Alexandra, Merlyn, Justin, and this other valet guy), the convenience it was to Seattle and the airport, AND HAZEL. She was definitely a highlight of hotel too. She delivered water to our room a few times and it's the cutest thing! Super convenient and high tech. With these reasons, I would rate it a 3.5/4. Without the upgrade and w/ all the cons, I honestly would rate it a 2.5/3.