Every single person I told I was staying here said "The rooms are so small!". It's true but not such an issue to me, especially when I moved from the smoking room (bleeuurgh) and the only availability they had left on the first night, to a better corner room on a floor above. Clean and cool.
The real problems are the prices and the service.
Room was cheap at about $150 per night. But arrived very late and ordered room service, the cheapest bottle of wine was $55. Had an extremely average crab cake and a not bad macaroni cheese for a total of $100. Breakfast is $27 buffet for badly cooked eggs and croissants with lttle relation to their French relatives. Horribly weak coffee I replaced with two off menu stronger cappucinos which turned out to be $8 each, ba-da-bing and you have a $50 breakfast. I refrained from breakfasting there again.
But it was the service which was bad. Ages to check in on an understaffed reception. First morning I wanted to ask where the breakfast room was and two people behind the counter continued their conversation without acknowledging me, I waited until I finally had waited so long I tried to interrupt whereupon the lady held up a finger to me and said "One minute ma'am", very rudely. And one evening when I tried calling down to ask for a wake-up call the phone was literally never answered, three times.
It's also a little too much of a scene for me, and I like a scene. Went to the bar with a book on Sunday evening, opened it to a cacophany of music and DJ noise, closed it gently and quietly crept away. That said the roof terrace is lovely so I went there instead and consumed an $18 glass of chardonnay.
And I have to say, hotels still charging for wi-fi is blummin cheeky these days and as someone who travels a lot, it's one of my basic standards of a hotel and a good indicator of whether they want to be known for putting customers first. Not here.
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