I stayed at this hotel based upon the TripAdvisor reviews and came away rather disappointed. This is just another one of those creepily faceless corporate living environments... gigantic marble/brass atrium surrounded by hundreds of room doors on multiple floors. The staff were polite and helpful, but you know that feeling you get that their every sentence is memorized from the employee orientation program? This only adds to the whole creepily faceless corporate thing.
My biggest gripe with this hotel is value for money. I travel all over the world for business and know right away when I'm being had. The atrium restaurant offers tasty food which is overpriced by 30%, and I reckon that the rooms in the hotel are overpriced by at least 50%. My room was not bad... clean and comfortable, but definitely not worth the $180 I shelled out for it.
The surrounding area can be classified simply as Contemporary Strip Mall. There are some newly built shops perched on a labyrinth of parking spaces just outside the hotel, but nothing original: Banana Republic, Cheesecake factory, Gap, Barnes & Noble... you know the list as well as I do. By car, such gems as Costco and Office Max beckon.
As an aside, I find it increasingly pointless to travel about in the States... one can drop down from the sky into any random city and find exactly the same mediocre chain hotels, restaurants, and clothing stores. Staying at this hotel reminded me unpleasantly that I'm Part of the Problem.
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