I chose the Dana because I thought it appeared to be a sophisticated oasis in the middle of the city, close to many attractions. While the location lived up, the hotel did not. Arriving early, we were promised a phone call when our room was ready. We reapperaed 15 minutes before guaranteed availbility and low and behold, our room was ready, no one had called. The associate checking us in was obviously new and I can appreciate that, but he really was not ready to handle customers yet and was allowed to do our entire check in. Throughout our stay the other male front desk staff were rude, unhelpful and standoff-ish.
We also chose this hotel b/c of the rooftop lounge. Lounge is actually a very busy nightclub with a line down the block. It was hardly relaxing and the drinks were VERY over priced. We heard that if your room is on the 19th floor or up you can hear the music from the club thumping in your room. Fortunately on the 12th floor, this was not a problem.
The room was ok. It appears is it does in the pictures, but a little beat up. The bathroom door slides and doubles as a closet door, which led to a nice knot on my head as my husband exited the bathroom when i was getting some shoes out of the closet. I thought the bed was a lumpy mess, but my husband found it comfortable. The air conditioning was noisy and did wake me up quite a bit.
The pros of the room - the corner king suite gave a nice city view. The curtains on the windows are a pain to operate - those should be made electric, but oh well. The rainshower was also great - very nice. Could use a shower door though to keep all the water from getting on the bathroom floor.
Overall I don't think this hotel was made well and will likely look very tired in a few short years. Oh ... and the doormen/bellmen were great - very helpful little tips every time we came and went.
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