Greg M.
Yelp
Nice downtown location, beautiful antiques in the interior, and great restaurant (Rupert's). However, we stayed only one night, and barely got any sleep. Imagine if we stayed a week.
We we had a very loud guest as a neighbor who decided to play his music loud at 11:15pm. When I called the hotel clerk, she said she'd "take care of it". Music continued, so I rang back and she said, "I called and nobody answered." I said, "that's probably because the music is too loud. Can you please come and knock on the door and tell them to turn it down?" And she replied...
"Why don't YOU knock on the door?" (unbelievable!)
After I shamed her into going up herself, rather than "Hotel McCall allowing its guests to get into confrontations with other drunk loud guests", she knocked but nobody answered. The guest did some yelling at his girlfriend, the shower turned on, and the music finally....stopped of its own accord, no thanks to the rude hotel clerk.
After this, the doors kept banging all night around this old hotel, often slamming many times in succession (what's up with that??). All the beauty and charm went out of the place after the rudeness of the clerk, and the fact that we barely got any sleep, even with 2 sound machines. We had to cut our trip short because we were so exhausted. Thanks Hotel McCall.
The "continental breakfast" is a joke: you have to pre-order what you want, like, say, a hardboiled egg, some OJ, and a small greasy commercially made muffin, which they hand to you in a paper bag in the morning. Coffee was cheap diner quality and weak.
The bed was plenty large (California King with lots of pillows), but there was no bedsheet between the blanket/comforter, which is a first for me. Makes me wonder how sanitary the place is (do they wash their comforters after each guest visit?) The room was decent. Body wash dispenser in shower did not work. We wanted some bottled water, but they only sold it in a vending machine for $2/bottle. We bought 2, and the machine ran out. So it's tap water unless you want to make a late night jaunt to Albertson's.
Oh, and you have to haul your own luggage up to the 2nd floor if you're in the "historical wing"--which means, your window probably faces the main, loud entrance. Ugh.