I travel a lot for work and all hotel accommodations are booked without my input.
That said, this is indeed a funky, hipster hotel. Themed floors, interesting decor, and friendly staff.
However, the beds are hard as a brick and are covered by some ill-fitting down topper, complete with 5 pillows of the same painfully over-stuffed nature.
The walls are painfully thin. I could hear whole phone conversations, alarms, and doors being opened and closed. I was on the 7th floor and could hear EVERYTHING happening on the street below. NOT something I would expect at this "esteemed" hotel!
The bathrooms are a mess: no towel racks, trash that isn't emptied regularly, pipes that "growl" and shudder within the walls. The shower's floor pattern made me second-guess the cleanliness of the stall, the showerhead constantly dripped and reverberated throughout the hollow space, and the poor excuse for a shower curtain led to the perpetual flooding of the bathroom floor. The toilet was wedged into a corner. Some of the more "ample" travelers would need to sit diagonally on the seat--it's that tight.
As of this writing (10/10/12), the Curtis has a bandwidth cap on their "complimentary" internet service. No streaming video, no Netflix, no Amazon video... nothing! Even a site as basic as Facebook severely lagged. Forget downloading and uploading files! And with their variety of 38 channels of basic blah tv to choose from, it made for a painfully long two weeks.
This hotel would be cute for something short-term, but DEFINITELY not for anything longer than a weekend stay. I would NOT stay here again, nor would I recommend it to friends or family.
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