My wife and I chose this hotel for its proximity to the home of a Seattle friend and on balance found it acceptable. Adjacent to Seattle Center, it made the Chihuly gallery, the monorail and Frank Gehry's exuberant "music experience" blob building easy to walk to. And the Queen Anne Hill neighborhood has mild charms all its own, not least of which an excellent QFC supermarket a short block away.
There were, however, some odd points about the place. The small and awkward plot of land may be responsible for the split level organization of the floors (and the fact that the lobby floor is 3). Harder to understand is the placement of the elevator at the end of a ramped-up, very long corridor of rooms: why not in the lobby? The breakfast--part of the deal--was indeed hot (eggs, sausage, self-made waffles) and varied (granola, fruit, etc) and served for a long stretch, but the feeling of crowds, crowds, crowds, blaring TV sets on different channels, often unsupervised young kids, and some badly-arranged buffet features took some of the charm away. And though it is hard to fault careful housekeeping, very early morning vacuuming added to the banging of room doors to create an unpleasantly noisy environment.
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