My wife and I along with two of our friends booked 2 rooms at the Hotel Felix in Chicago, IL for 1/16/11 through Priceline's "name your own price" feature. First of all, I have to say that we couldn't beat the price we got ($50 each before taxes)! The hotel has a great lobby that is decorated in very trendy decor with a very warm, long fireplace located next to a sitting area near the bar. The hotel was very clean and the staff was generally friendly, although they didn't really say much to me at check-in our check-out, and come to think of it didn't even thank me for staying there at check-out. Our room was also fairly quiet to street noise, but there was quite a bit of noise noticeable from the room next door.
Reading previous TA reviews, we all expected small rooms, but "small" kind of seems like an understatement for something that priceline classifies as a 4 star hotel. "Miniature" seemed like a better description of our rooms. The biggest issue that we were disappointed with was the complete lack of space in our room! There was barely enough room for me to squeeze by the desk at the foot of our bed to get around to the area on my side of the bed near the window (I had to turn sideways and scoot by the desk chair just to get past it, and I don't see how I could have moved the chair to anywhere else in the room). In addition, there was barely enough room to put my feet down on the side on the bed when sitting on the bed or getting up out of bed. It seemed like the so called queen size bed did not appear to be a queen sized bed as it was much smaller than a typical queen sized bed, and the pillows they gave you to sleep with were squares that were about half the size of a typical pillow - "miniature". Also, there was barely any closet to speak of (literally a hole in the wall with a curtain in front of it), and the faucet in the bathroom barely had any space underneath the nozzle where you were able to rinse your hands with water while washing your hands (and to complicate matters, we had a slow drain, so my hands got dipped in the sink water every time I went to wash my hands). The shower was probably the most spacious part of our entire room and was very nice.
Again, I was pleased with the price we received for these 2 rooms, along with the service, cleanliness of the rooms, and the decor, but for Priceline to categorize this as a 4 star hotel seems extremely misleading given that the rooms are barley big enough to walk around in and that on Priceline's website it states that 4 star hotels "...offer a wide selection of amenities with the guest's comfort in mind". I hardly consider this a hotel where the guest's comfort was in mind in terms of the size of the rooms! If you get this hotel through the name your own price feature on Priceline, it is an okay hotel for $50, but if you are thinking of booking this hotel by your own choice, I would look for a hotel with bigger rooms.
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