We have stayed at this hotel a number of times and are experienced enough with the property to give honest feedback.
First and foremost: Avoid rooms facing the two restaurant/bars across the street when staying on weekends. Our most recent stay - room 205 - put us right across from the boom boom boom of the sound system in one or the other of the clubs. Not good. They blaze on until two in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays. We noticed our proximity to the establishments when checking in, and my wife remembered once before when we stayed and the drunks spilled out onto the sidewalk, noisy and obnoxious.
In an effort to avoid a repeat of this disturbance, we called the front desk for a change of rooms and the clerk insisted that since the triple-pane upgrade to the windows in the previous year, noise disturbance had been eliminated. Wrong answer. We decided (regrettably) not to change rooms and toughed it out for two nights.
This clerk (Michelle) was slightly patronizing - courteous and professional, but still a bit insincere and apparently not super happy to be where she was. Maybe we caught her on an off-night, and that was probably the case. We are positive people, and were eager to make our rarely experienced weekend-away-from-the-kids a good time. But we did, while checking in, ask for a room on the top floor (a request that she ignored).
In a nutshell, on weekends expect to choose between view or restful sleep. The side of the building away from the noisy street faces another building = blank wall, dark, dreary. Also, in order to get a reasonable choice of room, get checked in early - say before 4:00 PM or so.
Otherwise a comfortable place. Like I said, we have stayed at Marqueen numerous times and find it to be an average value in a place where stuff is incredibly overpriced. Also, I want to reiterate aside from the small conflict with the night clerk, the staff is top-notch. I made it a point to tip the valet and the maids. They worked very hard to make my stay enjoyable.
At this point, I cannot say for certain that I would spend 150 or so a night again unless I knew exactly which room would be offered.
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