G Williams
Google
This is the second 4 star hotel in the 150-200 price range that I’ve stayed at in Midtown Atlanta; I can basically say the same thing about them – great walkable location and very comfortable beds, and I’d go back with hesitancy, as the hotel could be wonderful with better maintenance and customer service.
The hotel has a great atmosphere. I only WISH the hotel had a pool, maybe a roof top space. Everyone seems very friendly, from the valet in, however, getting anyone on the phone is a different story..
I called in on the way in that evening to confirm that the bar was open until Midnight, and to find out if the kitchen was open until close. I tried to hit the number for the restaurants – but it takes you to someone’s voicemail, likely in catering, who doesn’t call back. I tried calling the front desk and couldn’t get anyone on the phone for over 10 minutes – and this continued to be a problem across the weekend. Eventually, I did learn that the bar kitchen closes with the restaurant kitchen at 9pm.
Our original room had a broken motion light in the cabinet under the sink – lying on the towels. I didn’t even realize it was a light until I saw it working in the second room. The room could have been cleaner, as there was a hair pin left on the bathroom floor.
My biggest hesitancy on returning is the situation we woke to at 7am on Saturday morning. It sounded like a jack hammer going off for a couple of minutes at a time over and over again. I looked at the clock and figured it was a construction site next door, and grumbled at it, but then the noise started again and did not stop for over 20 minutes!? The wall and fixtures were shaking. I called the front desk to ask what was going on, and could let them hear it through the phone. They said they would send an engineer up to check on what was going on. This person didn’t seem to know when the engineers start their day. I called back in when the banging stopped, right before 8am, to let them know that if they hadn’t sent an engineer up yet, that they wouldn’t hear anything by our room anymore. This second person let me know that no engineers had been sent, since they start their day at 8am, but that there was no construction going on nearby. I asked if they were going to figure out what the noise was to keep it from waking us again on Sunday; I was offered to change rooms instead – but it had to be right then, as they needed to get our room ready for some other soul to deal with the noise the next morning. Without brushing our teeth or showering, we threw on our clothes, and consolidated our stuff to be ready to move to the new room when the key was brought up to us. Once in the new room, we realized what all was missing/broken in the old room, but more importantly that this room didn’t have a working phone or shower – the shower knob couldn’t be turned and the drain cover was propped on the wall. I had to call downstairs from my phone – and it rang and rang for ages.. on our way down to talk to the front desk, they finally picked up. We explained the situation, and asked for a different room, so we could get ready for our day… because time was now ticking against our plans for the day. The person that gave us the key said they were fully booked, so they didn’t have another room to move us to – my choices were either to have maintenance come up to the room, or to move us back to the old room. They asked us to go down for breakfast while they had maintenance and housekeeping give the room a through look over. When we returned from breakfast, the shower was in fact set up, and the room smelled of Clorox. The phone still wasn’t working, toiletries were missing, and they overlooked a burned-out light on the side of the bathroom vanity/sink – but nothing worth complaining about.
We were eligible for late check-out, but housekeeping still knocked. Room service was only available through the app as no one picks up the phone, and it didn't work - so we still had to get dressed and go down for breakfast the second day.