Frank B.
Yelp
If you need a quiet room with Wifi, stay away from this place. You may get one of them, but to have both was almost impossible.
I stayed there for four days. In the first two days, I had to stay in a room I could hear everything in the other room. In the last two days, I had to stay in a room with no Wifi, even after I paid 250 dollars a night for my stay.
This place is dysfunctional in so many ways:
(1) Although this hotel promises free Wifi, you may not get it. It clearly has not invested enough in Wifi, so some rooms have no wifi signal at all. It is not a temporary problem but happened during my stay all the time. As a result, I could not work in my room during my stay, which was just ridiculous.
(2) They have many adjourning rooms, which have inside doors to the next room that are not noise-proof at all. You can hear everything in the next room, including the simmering of the coffee maker. This not only gives you no privacy at all but also causes all kinds of noise problems. You and your neighbors cannot do anything without affecting each other, but if you cannot do anything in the room, what is the point of booking one? These adjoining rooms are designed for families and friends, but they assign them to strangers anyway.
(3) The staff is rude, ridiculous, and dishonest.
a. To complain about the noise problem in the adjourning room, I tried to call the front desk with the phone in my room many times, but nobody answered. Finally, even though I already had gone to bed, I had to take on clothes again and went downstairs to talk to the front desk staff in person. I asked about the phone, and they said it was broken and I could only come to talk to them in person, but later I got a promotional call from another staff.
b. I also asked the manager if they have normal rooms rather than adjourning rooms, and she said all rooms were adjourning rooms, which was later proved to be not the case. It was just her trick to not switch rooms for me.
c. When I complained that there was no internet access, the staff just yelled "I could do nothing about it." The front desk manager told me I can come down to work in the lobby, and if this hotel was not up to "my standard", I could check out. But isn't free Wifi "their standard" which they promise on the website? Could their understanding of standards be more ridiculous? If I had known wifi access is not guaranteed, I wouldn't have chosen this hotel at all in the first place.
d. I have been to many hotels in many cities, but I have never seen staff so unprofessional and uncivil. They always tried to push you away when they failed to deliver what the hotel promises on the website and accused you of being unreasonable. I didn't feel like dealing with a big franchise. A street vendor has better respect for their own job and customers.
(4) The hardware is not well-maintained. The coffee maker in my room was broken, one door knob in the restroom was missing, and the iron cover of the AC was not installed so that we could see the inside of the machine.