We stayed in a newly renovated king room. While the renovation has made the lobby, corridors and rooms look very cool and modern we experienced ever so many problems with the new decor. Starting with the lobby, the furniture is placed in such a way that when groups gather there the furniture forms a barrier and causes them to block the walkways from the elevators to the escalators. The line for the "front desk" also gets channeled into the walkways and it can be trying to get through the lobby.
The corridors are the best part of the renovation. They are full of style and a pleasure to walk through. However, the rooms are truly the biggest problem area. Whoever selected the furnishings picked them on the basis of their cool factor and did not give enough thought to practical matters. Most of the furniture is built atop a wooden base. The base extends up to about 4 inches beyond the sofa, media center or whatever is above it. Why is this a problem? Well, as you walk through the room skirting the furniture, you might misjudge the narrow passages as I did and end up with a severely injured foot on your vacation or business trip. Word to the wise--only walk around the room with shoes on. Other furniture choices were also dumb. There is the elliptical table that takes up lots of room but has no storage and the funky lamp above it that hangs at the height of your head which my daughter kept hitting when she stood up from the sofa.
As some have mentioned before, the pillows are really uncomfortable and in my particular room the bed sagged badly and produced a very uncomfortable night's sleep. The comments about the toilet location are also on target. You have to awkwardly reach backward to get toilet paper. But the bathroom hardware is awfully cool and trendy.
I think I will avoid this uber trendy hotel in the future for someplace more comfortable. It used to be a favorite place for us to stay but that is now history.
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