The hotel was very nice. I went with my parents and my best friend after Christmas for a little trip just for fun. There is a lot to do in Memphis. The hotel beds were better than my bed at home! It is very conveniently located. It is right next to the FedEx Forum and the Gibson Factory Showcase. From our room we had a very nice view of Beale Street and Downtown Memphis. The only real downside to the location is that you can sometimes (almost every night) here music from outside, but it isn't very loud and didn't bother me at all. Since it is right across the street from the FedEx Forum, almost all the people who perform or have a game there stay at this hotel. While we were there, the Toronto Raptors NBA team stayed there and the morning that we left the hotel, Usher and Trey Songz checked in. It was really cool getting to see them, but that is probably because I am a teenager. But Usher wouldn't take a picture with us or give us his autograph, but it was early in the morning and he looked like he had just woken up on the tour bus. The restaurant in the hotel had great food, and there was a Starbucks in the building, but you had to walk outside to get to it. Though the rooms were very nice and the hotel was exactly like the pictures, there were a few downsides. Everything in the hotel was extremely expensive. There were charges on things that you weren't even aware they charged you for. In the minibar, if you even picked something up to see what it was, you were charged for the item. It even cost to get WiFi! WiFi is available for free at any other hotel I have ever been to! It cost $6.95 to order WiFi for one 24-hour period! Surprisingly, Beale Street didn't have much activity. While we were there, the only people on it were tourists and there weren't even that many of them. Beale Street is also only 2 blocks long, and I expected it to be larger because of how people talk about it. I live in Louisiana, and Memphis reminded me a lot of New Orleans and a little bit of Baton Rouge. Another downside to the hotel was that the maid service took forever to finish cleaning rooms. They would work from the morning to the late evening and sometimes they wouldn't even make the beds. Actually, it seemed like sometimes they didn't even go into the room at all. And small dogs are allowed at the hotel for a fee of $50, so sometimes you can here dogs barking and when you walk through the lobby sometimes someone will have a dog that will bark at people. The city of Memphis really is great. If you can, go see an NBA game or a concert at the FedEx Forum. Eating ribs at Rendevous is a must! And the Memphis Zoo is rated as the best in the country, but unfortunately we did not have time to visit the zoo. Some fun places to go to are Sun Studio, The Rock N' Soul Museum, and going to see the ducks at the Peabody Hotel is fun. Graceland is nice I guess but really, it is just a house and everything there is really expensive. You don't even get to see all of the house. And for 4 basic tour tickets (2 adult, 2 students for the most basic tour available) it is over $100.
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