Bill J.
Yelp
I normally wouldn't spend my time writing a review for a hotel, but this experience left enough to be desired that I figured it was worth the investment.
Where to begin? First and foremost, the biggest thing you will notice is the close quarters. That's everywhere and in all aspects of the design of this place. Hallways? They're pretty narrow. Elevator bank? Narrowly wedged behind the front desk. Breakfast area? Cramped when more than two people are in there doing their thing. Front desk? Hard to get past if people are checking in.
Sadly, the rooms follow the same design principle, everything is sorta cramped and unusually so. You'll find the bathroom door swings open, inexplicably, and within about half an inch of the end of the toilet bowl. Translation: you need to stand between the toilet and the bathtub, a whopping 6" gap that you slide into sideways, before you can close the door behind yourself. No, that is not an exaggeration either. It is physically impossible to open or close the door while standing in the room unless you wedge yourself into a corner or something like this. I'm a small, wiry fellow, but how anyone of any bulk would manage, I have no earthly idea. Just... wow.
Furthermore, the rest of the room is laid out similarly. The bed is a nice king size, but wedged super closer to the window and air conditioner unit. Translation: wedge yourself in sideways if you want to operate the blinds, unless you plan to crawl over the bed. The closet is tucked in a tiny little nook next to bathroom sink (which is, itself, outside the bathroom), and barely fits anything. Half the closet is recessed in such a way that you'd have to be a contortionist to wedge anything in or out of there. Try imagining a closet with a pocket door, except that the door only opens about half as wide as is necessary for a human being to fit into it. You can slide your stuff down into the abyss on a hanger, but if you lose anything back there, good luck on finding a way to get it out because you can't fit in there to go after it.
Strangely, in addition to the king sized bed, they have a couch with a pull out bed too. The couch is too large single or double occupancy rooms, and the space would have been much better used for better amenities (like, say, a closet not designed for hobbits). The TV, to their credit, was nice and big, but you can only view it from the couch. Wouldn't viewing from a king sized bed, just maybe, have been better?
And that's another damning thing. The bed... dear God, it was a brick. My wife woke up multiple times and actually was in pain from sleeping on it. Me? I took over three hours to get to sleep, because I just couldn't get comfortable at all. You get two pillows each, but neither one is worth a damn, one being too small and the other being big enough but having no substance. You either sleep on a tiny pillow or a larger, collapsed bag. All this on top of what could have easily passed for a concrete slab with a sheet over it. My back hurts just thinking about that damn bed. Ugh.
Last but not least, let's cover some of the minor but nonetheless annoying issues. First and foremost, when trying to plug my laptop charger into one of the available outlets by the TV, where there are also HDMI and other input ports, I got a gnarly sizzling and popping sound going on. Plugged it into a different outlet on the same bank, and no issues, but still, a bit unsettling and probably a safety hazard from a bad ground or short somewhere. Then there's the fact that we found an open bottle of shampoo from the previous guests, tucked away between some folded up towels in the shower. My guess is housekeeping just lopped the new towels up there on top of the unused ones and didn't notice. Still, it's kind of gross. Last but certainly not least, the cleanliness of the floor. Holy hell, were the floors dirty. I had white socks and they literally turned dark grey just from walking around the room a bit. I didn't drag my feet or anything to even try to pick up residue, it just piled on all by itself. My wife checked her socks and found the same thing, and was equally grossed out. It's a pet friendly hotel, so I'll let the reader's imagination work on the likely sources for the dirty floor. Yeah.
We did have not one but two run-ins with housekeeping, but neither of them had anything to do with cleaning the room. Despite having the "come back later" (their PC version of "do not disturb") hanging placard on the door, we were interrupted twice by some knuckle-dragging simian pounding on the door and belting out that it was housekeeping. Seriously?
For anyone using this place and thinking that free WiFi is worth a damn, think again. Slow as molasses in January. You get what you pay for, and this was free, so do the math.
All in all, this place was a major disappointment. Will not return if I'm paying for it, and wouldn't be too thrilled even if it was someone else's dime. Badly designed, badly run.