Jonathan F
Google
I was really looking forward to this place. I landed at riverside, got the aircraft taken care of, and took a nice Uber ride downtown. When I walked in, I should have walked out. The staff was immediately rude. And on a thursday, I was looking for a cocktail after a long flight, but somebody had the bar booked and it was closed until 9:00. So I was faced with getting a cocktail at a shabby little coffee shop that shared a ground floor. Walked in and walked out of that. Did I say hard pillows and dimly lit rooms? Fortunately, I did find a decent place to eat, but when I got back to the room, the room that I requested to be as far from the elevator, avoiding loud voices and foot traffic, was actually placed right next to the elevator machine room... so each time the goddamn elevator was in operation, you could hear the thing. Each time and all night - how is this thing not soundproofed!? And just when I thought it could not get any worse, at 4:00 in the morning, because I was on an alley side window unit, I got to hear the garbage truck bang and slam garbage containers from 4:00 to 5:00 in the morning, if not six. How does Tulsa not have noise ordinances against this, next to a residential or multi-unit facility? And how in the hell can this hotel allow it? I know, cuz they don't care about their guests. This hotel is only resting on the laurels of it being an old hotel that looks classy, but the staff and the attitude is as far from classy as one could take it. Don't get me wrong, the facade, the elevators, the floors, they all sing for bygone years when this place was one of the best places to stay west of the Mississippi. That is not the case today. And if you stay on the side of the building that faces the alley on a Thursday night, I guarantee you that you that unless you're loaded up on Ambien, will not have more than 4 hours of sleep! Never again! You're better off staying at chain motel (where the staff is a hell of a lot more friendly and happy to be working there). This is the place for you if you're an architectural student and needs some pictures of what things used to be like. But don't spend the night if you're looking for sleep.