In town for a convention, we stayed here for 3 nights. The first thing you'll notice with this hotel is how small it is. It seems more like it belongs in Europe. The elevators are small, the rooms are small, the bathroom is super small.
There is no lobby in the sense that I am used to. There's the check-in area and then 2 couches in front of the tiny elevators. I'm used to a lobby you can hang out in at the end of the evening and get drinks from the bar. That does not exist here.
And my biggest complaint was that they have sensors on the mini fridge, so if you try to put anything of yours in there you'll wind up getting charged for mini-bar items that you never actually ate or drank. Something as simple as opening the fridge when the sensor goes off and noting that nothing was consumed seems obvious to me, but that's not something they do at Hotel Mela. Instead, they'll add it to the bill. We went to the front desk upon check out and complained (along with 3 other hotel patrons who were checking out at the same time) and they took it off the bill. While I appreciate that, those charges never should have made it onto our bill.
It was an ok hotel overall. The next time we're in town for a show we'll stay at a larger hotel.
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