Paul R.
Yelp
This was my second stay at this hotel in a year. I hope I never have to stay here again. I arrived late at night on a Saturday to find out that the restaurant inside the hotel is closed for renovations and, because of this, there is no food served in the hotel - no room service. It's too late at night in the neighborhood for any restaurants to be open and the hotel staff have not made any arrangements for food delivery partners. Instead, I get a "good luck" from the front desk. Then I ask about my room and am told it is still occupied. I was supposed to get a king bed but now, with no explanation, I'm downgraded to a queen bed. Turns out the bed is so broken down it is like a 500 pound weight has been put in the middle of the bed for a year - if you poured water on the bed it would form a deep pool before running over the sides. The thermostat doesn't seem to do anything ; over the course of my stay I tried raising and lowering the temperature of the room, with no success. The furniture is totally business-unfriendly: the desk height is too high and has sharp edges, while the chair provided is too low, can't be raised or lowered, and is as comfortable as sitting on a park bench all day. There is no art or decoration on the walls of any kind - just bland, bare white. The first bath towel I used after showering was like sandpaper, and there is no place to hang any towels of any kind. One positive is the robes provided, which are excellent, though full of static electricity in January (very dry atmosphere). The view from my room was of a parking lot and into living spaces at the same height, so lacked privacy. Though the curtains were acceptable for blackout lighting conditions, the street noise was terrible at times - I was awakened at 4am on a weekday morning to the sound of glass bottles clattering by the hundreds. The water in the shower runs very hot for several minutes and cannot be lowered to a temperature that does not scald, so you have to remember to begin running a shower or bath several minutes before you actually want to get in. The bath water won't drain fast enough to keep the tub from filling up if you run the bath spigot, so you have to remember to run only the shower or you risk scalding your feet when stepping into the shower. The elevators work well and provide security with a card reader required to go to your floor, but they are poorly lit and rather shabby looking. The lobby has a very nice gas fire running at all hours and the staff at the front desk are nice. The Nespresso in my room worked well and I was very pleased that the front desk would provide more pods. The negatives of this hotel far outweigh the positives, so even though it is closer to my work location I will try never to come here again.