Candace K.
Yelp
Form over Function.
I really wanted to like this place. I travel a lot, and booked as a lark as it looked interesting and the reviews were mixed, but mostly favorable. Such a mistake.
The parking is sketchy - a public lot across the street. That is not onsite parking.
The room itself was narrow and dim, with no centralized lighting, but scattered pull chain lights that you had to crawl over nightstands to reach. The AC was a window unit that rumbled all night long, running or not, and was just behind the headboard of the bed. You could not reach the shade to pull it down, as the bed and nightstands were in the way. The floors and ceilings are polished concrete which is as advertised, but it looks, and was, dirty - lint in corners, edges never cleaned. Not great.
The bathroom was okay except for a very leaky shower, and since there are no tubs in the entire place, only walk in showers, and no weighted shower curtains, the curtain billows in as soon as the shower is running, leaving you to fight a damp wet ghost during your entire shower. The shower door requires two hands and muscles to close, as it's a 'barn door' style.
There's limited storage - no dresser, but thankfully I had only planned two nights, so didn't need to really unpack. Near the door is a.... closet, safe area, ice bucket platform, etc. There is no fridge, despite stating there was.
However, the absolute worst part of was the Eye of Sauron over the door. There is an Edison bulb (40 watt or so) on the 15foot ceiling, right above the door in the entryway. It is on a timer and it is set off via motion sensor.
Say you need to use the facilities at 3am. You set one foot out of bed, and the light comes on. Useful, I would suppose. However, it's on a 30 minute timer. So once you're back in bed, you have a GLARING LIGHT directly in your eyes. At checkout (early, because I was not staying here another night), I was told snippily "well there's a switch in the closet".
Well SHAME ON ME for not searching the closet at 3am for a light switch.