I spent a week here in early August. The location is perfect, of course. My room was big enough. The bathroom was spotless but there were crumbs and even a used band-aid on the carpet - yuck! The bed was OK, the furniture nothing special. Strangely enough, the room had no desk or table, so I had to write in a very uncomfortable position.
The ongoing renovations posed some problems, as others have mentioned. There was construction noise starting at 7 in the morning, and half of the breakfast room was out of use, which meant that sometimes people had to wait for a free table. The breakfast was quite nice. A big plus for the fresh fruit salad.
The property is very geared towards the French(-speaking). There is a poem in French on the breakfast room walls, the people overseeing the renovations speak French and - to top it all - the instructions on the hair dryer are only in French (is this even legal in the US?)! Most of the guests were French-speaking as well. I'm a francophone and somewhat of a francophile, so that's OK, but when I travel in the US I'd favor a genuinely American establishment.
I MIGHT stay here again if they don't raise the prices considerably once the place is renovated. Otherwise I'll look for something more modern and even closer to downtown.
Oh, one more thing: they add 3 different taxes to the room charge: a state tax, a local tax and a convention tax (always, even when there are no conventions in town). So be prepared to pay more than you might expect.
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