My husband and I spent a week at this hotel Thanksgiving week. For the last ten years, this is the only hotel we stay at in San Antonio. Previously we stayed at the Emily Morgan, Marriott, etc. but found this is the best deal on the River for living space and convenience. Though many hotels claim they are "suites", they merely stick a sofa in front of your bed and add a bar sized fridge and microwave. Homewood Suites actually has two rooms, complete with door and a full kitchenette with dishwasher, two burner electric stove and full sized refrigerator (a few rooms do have bar refrigerators). Though we saw lots of airline personnel during the week, this is definately a family hotel on the weekends and holidays. There is nothing to prevent you from going downstais, even in the thick of the morning kiddie rush and bringing coffee, juice and even a plate of breakfast up to your room to avoid the crush. All rooms have tables and chairs. We always put the morning dishes in the dishwasher (housekeeping will turn it on) and returned washed dishes the next morning. Even if you only get breakfast the odd morning and dinner (from the evening reception) the odd night, it is very handy, especially if you are tired from extended sight seeing. They are slow to clean existing rooms on Sunday as that is the biggest checkout day. I fully support cleaning enough rooms for that day's anticipated check-ins, but after that, those patrons actually still on site should get cleaned before remaining empty rooms. Also, we did have on elevator failure on a busy family morning, but it was fixed in a couple of hours and might be due to the number of people in the elevator itself? Still, our wait on the one elevator was only a a few minutes. Staff are extremely helpful and pleasant, cleaning was good and location (midway between the Mercado and the Alamo) perfect.
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