Tony T.
Yelp
I really wanted to love this hotel, considering how great the price was. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. It's currently undergoing construction on the first floor, and that construction can be quite loud during the day. As far as I know, all the guest rooms have finished their construction already. You can't use the lobby entrance and you have to enter the pool from the exterior of the building. Other than that, the current construction shouldn't affect you too much. staying here.
The positives to this hotel are the price, the super quick check in process and the free breakfast. The check in process took me less than two minutes. The free breakfast isn't anything amazing but there is a large selection of food. You have oatmeal, bagels, yogurt, cereal, apples, bananas, orange juice, milk, coffee, tea, and probably other things I'm forgetting.
Most of the negatives are about the building itself. It's an older building that has recently been renovated on the inside. The guest rooms themselves look nice overall until you really start looking at things. Even though the rooms themselves have new amenities, they are starting to get dinged up a little bit from guests. Also, you can tell that the renovations were done very quick and cheap. I noticed in my room that the window does not shut flush in a window frame. The window has a small gap which let in outside noise, air, moisture, and probably bugs. See attached photo. Also, in my particular room, the hot water knob for the sink was not attached properly, so it could be completely moved around on the sink as you will see in the attached video. Around the windows, you can see where the worker cut the drywall in a completely crooked line. It's very obvious, and in another spot you can see where it was obviously patched up and not done well. In another photo, you can see where the smoke detector was left in place while they scraped the old popcorn ceiling off but now that the smoke detector is not flush to the ceiling you can see the old popcorn ceiling underneath. These are just things you wouldn't see in a high-end hotel after a renovation. Are most of these things going to bother you? That's up to you. Since we're talking about the general construction of the building, I will mention one thing that's not from the renovation workers. Since the building is old, you will most likely hear your neighbors above you as they walk about their room. I could hear my upstairs neighbor, every time they took a step. Every single time. I could also hear the neighbors through the walls sometimes.
The housekeeping is an issue as well. They ask you when you check in if you would like housekeeping. I said yes. They told me then that the housekeeper only comes in every other day. I checked in on Tuesday which meant that I was due for a cleaning on Thursday. When I got back into my room around 3PM the housekeeper has still not been in. I called to double check that they were coming and they said they should be there shortly. By the time they showed up, I just asked for fresh towels and for the trash to be emptied. As you can imagine tiny hotel trash cans get filled up quite quickly over three days. Also, the towels definitely needed changing at that point. It seems like a cost cutting measure from the hotel. It may not bother you, but it bothered me.
Here is a strange thing that I wasn't going to mention at first. I'm not saying that the hotel is haunted because I have no proof of this but if you told me it is I'd believe you. We went to bed one night and had the latch on the door so nobody can enter. Ever since night one I had a weird feeling from one corner of the room that is darker than the other portion of the room due to the color of the walls. It's the portion with the couch in it. I just kept getting this feeling of don't look in that corner because there's something there. This one night in particular I'm speaking about the room was completely secured and I heard footsteps right next to the bed, walking into that corner of the room. I knew that nobody could be in the room other than myself and my girlfriend yet there were footsteps in the room walking into that dark portion.
I've never heard anything about it being haunted or anything like that, so maybe it was just a dream that I was half awake for. I don't know but I thought it was an interesting story to throw into my review.