I was travelling with a friend and needed 2 beds in the room. Typically I do not stay in Hilton hotels - they are such convention hotels, but my Friend is tall and I like to spread out in bed, so I booked the Hilton over other hotels in Austin because it was the only Hotel that offered '2 Queen beds'. We checked in, and yes there were a lot of conventioners in the lobby, got to the room to see what looked to us like 2 double beds, not queen. My tall friend can tell because double beds are shorter than queen beds - and sure enough, they were short beds and narrow. I called the front desk to ask why there were double beds in our '2 queen bed' room and the lady at the desk, while nice, said 'those Queen beds just seem to be getting smaller every year, don't they'. Then assured me they were queen beds. Well - they were not. The room itself was smallish but nice. We had a lovely view (can't complain about that). The location was very good. But I have to give it 2 stars for false advertising. And a final note about that convention thing - we needed one first class stamp to mail a letter. We waited in line at the front desk who told us we had to go to their shippng center. We went to the shipping center (a small kinko's type thing) and waited behind 3 men in business suits who were prepping for convention and business meetings. After 15 minutes there was one man left who was unhappy with some presentation and kept arguing with the single attendant in the shipping center. We were aghast that we could not get one single stamp without having to wait all that time.
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