Jeffrey R.
Yelp
I almost gave this hotel a 1 star, but it really doesn't deserve it. It's a very nice hotel, it just has a ton of problems. It's a new hotel and obviously has a lot of kinks it needs to work out. The staff and other things just seem to be very disorganized.
Pros:
* Nice showers and room dividers
* Staff is friendly and helpful, but slow and not always competent
* Bar area staff is great
* Good sound proofing (besides construction)
Problems I had with the hotel:
* AC: We had 2 people staying at the hotel. For one of us, their room's AC didn't really work. Even when the thermostat was set to 18C/65F, the room stayed at 25C/77F. The staff came in and said nothing was wrong. They just couldn't seem to comprehend the fact that the room staying so hot is "a problem" since the AC seemed to be working. I think it's a problem with the room design, as the AC is over by the window on the floor, where it couldn't do its work. And even worse, when the blackout curtain was down, the cold air didn't get into the room at all. Super stupid layout. So they switched him to the same type room on another floor, and it still had the same problem. So they moved him to a suite and it was fine. He stayed in the suite for 3 days and they wanted to move him back to his old room for the last day he was there, so they did so, AND IT STILL STAYED 25C/77F in the room! They added a mobile fan to push the cold air into the rest of the room, and that helped a bit. Stay clear of room #1 on any floor!
* There was loud construction on 3 sides of the building. I know this isn't their fault, but I did not appreciate getting woken up at 6am every morning. They told me moving me to a room on the opposite side of the hall wouldn't help, but they were completely wrong. The construction didn't really reach that (4th) side of the hotel. They also moved me up from the 6th floor to the 16th floor and that helped a ton too.
* In my second room, the blackout curtain didn't come all the way down so the room was still getting a lot of light. They also designed them so the sides are completely open so an annoyingly large amount of light comes out of them too.
* 1 if the rooms shower pressure was very low.
* My room had no drawers. All it had for clothes, not including on hangers, was 1 small cubby 1ftx1ftx3ft (deep). There was also "storage" on top of the shelving, if you didn't mind standing on the sink cabinet to get to it. This was absolutely ridiculous.
* The wireless internet, while free, was spotty and slow.
* The wireless internet also cut out once daily, requiring a re-login. This always seemed to happen in the middle of important work or while watching tv/movies.
* For a valet to retrieve your vehicle, it generally took about 15 minutes. This was apparently due to the valet parking for the hotel being far away. You'd think they'd keep the keys at the valet area to remove half the delivery time, but nope.
* Their TVs had a bunch of problems
* The digital streams would freeze once every 5 or so minutes for a number of seconds, followed by improperly digitized data.
* The remote was very touchy. It had to be in just specific positions from the TV to actually work.
* The volume takes ~a second per level to turn up. So to get from 20 to its max (60) took 40+ seconds. And the volume was very loud for commercials but too soft for the actual content.
* While there was a second HDMI port on the back of the tv, there was no way to get to that input on either the TV or remote. So when we wanted to hook our PCs up to the tv, we had to first take out their crappy digital control box. Doing so was not very easy.
* Navigating some of the menus was very unintuitive. For example, when logging into Netflix, you had to use the Wii-type-mouse to accept your username/password, and then turn the mouse off to use further Netflix menus. The mouse functionality was strictly based upon an accelerometer, starting centered on the screen no matter where the controller was, and it didn't work very well either.
* The remote-connect features for android didn't work. We tried both screen mirroring and casting, and neither worked (tried in multiple rooms).
* The rooms only had like 6 hangers.
* The do-not-disturb signs were flimsy and by far the worst I've ever seen. They fell off the door every time it was opened.
* Their nifty delivery robot overrides any buttons currently pushed on the elevator. So if you are going up and it gets on, the elevator starts going down.
* My room stay was extended by 3 days. I got locked out of my room on the day I was supposed to check out. The staff were able to fix it up at the front desk, but it took 6 or so minutes. They were having some sort of problem.
* Very minor complaint, but an example of the disorganization. I asked for 3 towels to be sent up at one point and only received 2.
* There was more, but I think this is more than enough problems they need to fix.