Kathleen M.
Yelp
Was recently here for a conference and while there were a few bumps with my check in and room, overall it was a very good experience.
I arrived on Tuesday afternoon around 4:20-4:30 pm and my reserved room type - a Classic Deluxe Room with 1 King Bed - was not available. They worked to send someone and see if the room was ready but were unable to confirm that it was unoccupied and had been cleaned, so they asked if I would be okay with a Classic Deluxe Room with 2 Queen Beds. Since I was staying alone, having two beds didn't make as much sense, since it would be twice as many sheet to clean for them and I would only be using one of the beds.
They ended up offering me a free upgrade to a Spacious Premier Room with 1 King Bed on the 15th floor plus three in 4 free drink tickets which was so kind! The room had an amazing view of the city skyline.
I utilized the valet overnight parking and that came to a cost of $43.30 a night. One thing to keep in mind is that your room rate does not include various taxes and fees.
Later on in the week, I noticed that my toilet was leaking and stopped by the front desk around 5:05 pm to let them know. They had someone in my room by 5:35 and the toilet was fixed shortly thereafter.
I did visit the gym and while it is a bit limited on weight machines, there was a lot of great cardio equipment, free weights, and a few machines. You can definitely get a great workout in here, but if you're used to a certain type of equipment, you will need to modify your workout.
Outside of the room, I did experience the catering and while the food was good, I was a bit disappointed by the lack of gluten free options during snack breaks and desserts at the banquet meal. For example, they had a delicious chips and guacamole bar but all of the chips, crackers, and bread had gluten - even the tortilla chips! Almost all of the desserts offered through catering were not gluten free and having a sweet tooth, this was very sad for me. Everyone else thoroughly enjoyed the meals, so this was more of a food-allergy specific comment for me personally.
I also stepped out of the banquet to take pictures and had left something on the table. I'm the 12 minutes I was gone, the table was cleared and my hair piece was gone. Very disappointed about that, but they did help me put in an incident report/lost items report so hopefully someone will find it with the silverware or something.
Overall, I had a good experience here but there were a few things that could have been better such as with the catering for food allergies. I think if you're coming here for a vacation, this would be a great place to visit as everyone was very helpful and the employees were so friendly and it's a great place to host an event if you don't have any food allergies to consider.