My wife and I and another couple stayed here during NIOSA. Location cannot be beat-walking distance to everything in the downtown core. A nice bar lounge with big Bay windows overlooking the river and wonderful for people watching.
The room we had with a King Bed isn't huge but it is OK. The bathroom and closet share a sliding door-If you want the bathroom closed, the closet must be open and visa-versa. Also if the safe in the closet happens to be open and you want to open the door to the bathroom-CRASH!. It was obviously a space saving design but it is inconvenient - the refrigerator was also behind the sliding door in the closet-quite inconvenient.
The other annoyance was the thin walls and lack of soundproofing-we are not usually extremely light sleepers but hearing the telephone ring in the next room and jumping up to answer our own room phone might give you our impression.
Apparently the hotel was built in 1968 and was of modular construction-that is the room modules were built on the ground and lifted into place and stacked together like building blocks and I guess noise insulation was not high on their list. The hotel was completed in 202 days which is remarkable!
We heard rumors that the hotel was going to go through renovation so if so hopefully they will address those issues.
Would we stay there again-yes- the hotel is well run, the staff are great, the rooms are clean and the location is terrific.Those other idiosyncracies we just accepted.
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