When traveling, either for pleasure or business, I always check Luxury Link because through their website, I have have stayed in the best and most luxurious and wonderfully unusual hotels in my life - in Hawaii, Bali, Africa, London, France, Spain, Canada and the US. Always wonderful - - except for the Blakely.
I booked my stay at the Blakely through Luxury Link. It was Terrible. Dark, dingy lobby. No doorman. Rude and surly and bored people at the front desk. I had to bring my suitcases up and down in the little noisy elevator. The room was dirty and dark and depressing. The furniture cheap and in disrepair. The curtains were dusty and stained. The bed linen smelled. The maintenance was non-existent. There was mold in the bathroom and poorly disguised repairs to the granite and marble which had obviously seen better days. I could not wait to get out of there.
How it has so many stars on this website is a mystery to me. It is inexpensive - so maybe the people who have stayed there don't have experience with 5 star hotels.
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