We stayed here for two nights while my wife attended a seminar. Cost about $250.00 for two nights and was very decidedly not worth it. It is very run down (except for the lobby), the hallways are dark with only half of the lights burning. The front desk staff were indifferent at best. The room was small and cramped but we weren't expecting the Presidential Suite. Each room in this 3 story hotel has a small balcony (you can't open the door and go out on it)...I guess its for the view: traffic stopped on IH-35, the swimming pool (if you're lucky) or in our case, a brick wall. The air-conditioner worked well and it was blistering hot in Austin. There are few restaurants in this area that looked safe enough to eat at ( Lubys across the freeway, Dennys) and a flux of taquria stands, shacks or hole-in-the-walls. There is a restaurant at the hotel (it is really a bar that serves a very limited menu...the hamburger & fries was very good but the waiter seemed appalled that we ordered ice tea to drink). The continental breakfast was filling, standard fruit, yogurt, cereal, coffee and juice. This is for paying guests only but the many people coming there for seminars or conferences would come help themselves as well...! The swimming pool is nice...very old but still clean and I had it to myself most of the stay. The carpet in the room was very dirty.
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