This is a huge hotel, and many of the rooms have been recently redone. Rather impersonal place, but functional and in a reasonable location once you figure out transportation. Most of the restaurants and interesting pubs are across the river, off Michigan Ave, and if the weather is mean, it can be quite a hike. The underground meeting rooms are a huge labyrinth of rooms, poorly marked, and frustrating to navigate. This hotel spans two blocks, and has underground connectors beneath the street. Unless you are careful, you can come up on the wrong side of the block. Even if you ARE careful, you may find you have to go back and forth using the tunnel or the 2nd floor bridge between the buildings. Gets old FAST. The restaurants are just OK and uninspired, and when there's a conference there, the line at the Starbucks is maddening. After many stays, you can figure out how to travel underground/indoors for up to 4 blocks from the hotel, but other than weekday business hours, those hallways become almost scary, because there's nobody in sight.
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