I’d have to say I am “on the fence” about Omni – I wasn’t blown away and it wasn’t entirely bad either.
I booked at the Omni based on its status on Trip Advisor and joined their rewards program to access free in-room internet, paper and also the morning drinks. Great offer to simply join their rewards program. Internet was greatly appreciated and the morning drinks were also excellent, 2 choices per person – coffee was good and the hot chocolate was great (they also supplied marshmallows and cream which I thought was a nice touch). My tip is on check-in make sure they know you are in the program as they didn’t know I was and took a little while to work it out – make sure you walk away from check-in with your door hanger things for drinks.
The hotel itself is not in the centre of town, it is a few of metro stops away – the metro itself, as others have said, is literally a couple of minutes walk from the hotel, not far at all.
I had asked for a quiet room but somehow ended up facing the main road and also where the buses wait for guests who might be at a function at the hotel. On one night I had to ring reception at about midnight to ask them to possibly move the buses who were in the parking lot with their engines running. One bus might have been “sleepable” but the 3 buses with their engines running was a bit much.
The set-out of the room was weird and not a very good use of space. We had 2 beds, desk and tv in one room, a separate (quite large) closet with safe and then quite a small bathroom – we were normal sized people, but if you were a little larger then you would have difficulty getting in the bathroom – the gap between the sink and the door was quite small.
We also found the air conditioner quite noisy.
It is an old hotel and we found our room door had quite a large gap down the bottom and around the sides which was quite annoying as quite a bit of light flowed into the room while we were sleeping. Lots of door slamming during the night too.
The pool looked nice but it wasn’t pool weather while we were there in April 2010. The gym was very nice and had lots of machines and equipment. Others have mentioned the cost of the gym however we went a couple of times and were not charged.
We needed some stamps one day and were charged twice the ticketed price of the stamps by the hotel shop.
We didn’t eat at the hotel, the breakfast price was a bit pricey. Instead we ate at the cafe literally across the road (it seemed very popular with lots of people doing the same thing) which was nice.
Would I stay here again, probably not, I would pick somewhere closer to the centre of town – one day the weather turned quite badly and by the time we had jumped on 2 different trains to get from where we were to the hotel and back again a couple of hours had passed.
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