I recently stayed stayed at the Crown Plaza in Indianapolis while traveling for work, it was the same hotel out meetings were in so I booked it over the phone without reading up on it first. Overall, it's an average hotel but it is rather unique in that it used to be be a train station. when you check in the staff will tell you that is it near an active railway line and trains pass through frequently and you can feel and hear them prominently in some parts of the building. The first night of my stay trains woke me up several times during the night, needless to say I wasn't very rested the next day. The next night was better though, didn't wake up once. It was even louder in the conference rooms we were in for our meetings. We had to completely stop several times to let trains pass because the presenter could not be heard due to the noise.
The rooms themselves are OK, they need updated but were comfortable enough. If you love trains though one kind of neat thing is they have lots of real train cars in the hotel that double as hotel rooms. You can stay in one. I had a regular room but I did peek in an unoccupied train car room on the way to mine. you enter them from the end of the car through the original door you would use traveling on a train if you wanted to move from car to car. very unique.
I'm not a train buff so it didn't really appeal to me. if I have to go back to Indy for work I will stay somewhere else, I just like newer hotels. the hotel staff was really nice and helpful, other than the noise I had no other issues with may stay.
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