We stayed at the Moore twice...both at the beginning and end of our cruise. The first time, we were not happy and looked into changing our reservation for the next week...but since it was Memorial Day, there really wasn't anything else available in the same price range. The inside of the rooms are updated, but somewhat superficially. It seems like they didn't quite finish the job. The first time, we stayed on a lower floor in the cheapest room with the shared bath. There was one toilet on our side of the floor (in a small locked room) or a toilet with shower in a locked larger room. It seemed strange that you needed a seperate key to use the bathroom. The shower room had three inches of water on the floor (water that had come from the ceiling). Although the front desk staff are great, they cleaned it up right away, the bathroom retained the overwhelming smell of the grout mud. Our room was fairly large, but very sparse. You will not find any tissue boxes, alarm clocks, coffee pots, shelves big enough to set something on in the bathroom, hair dryers or interesting art on the wall. It is almost as if no one on the staff has ever tried out the rooms to realize that they are not very traveler-friendly, although they do a nice job of keeping them clean and folding the towels in interesting shapes. I have no complaints about the comfort of the beds, and the staff was very helpful with storing luggage in their locked closet before or after check-out. The lower level room was also very dark - if you opened the curtain, all you would see was the neighboring dirty brick wall just a few feet away from the window.
For our second stay, we spent an extra $20 to upgrade to a private bath...we felt it was worth the money. We specifically requested a room on the top floor and did get a much better view with sunny windows looking out on the street. But although the inside of the room looked recently redone, the wooden trim just outside the windows is falling apart, and it looks like it hasn't been painted since the place was built a hundred years ago - and the windows are so streaked with pigeon droppings (? - there were several pigeons visiting our window ledge) - that it was hard to see out. But the most uncomfortable for us was the neighborhood. We took the light rail to the hotel from the airport with our luggage. And although the light rail felt fairly safe, it did take nearly an hour to get there (including the walk), and there were so many homeless and loitering people around, we felt unsafe walking to the hotel (we took a taxi back to the airport on the return). It felt like the hotel was in a marginal zone between the less safe area toward pioneer square and the safer area toward the space needle. And my daughter lives in downtown Philly, and she was uncomfortable as well. Although I feel that the hotel is trying hard (and I don't like being critical), next time I think I would stay further out-of-town and use taxis or public transportation to travel into the city for the day, or spend the extra money to stay in a chain hotel closer to the space needle.
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