This hotel simply did not meet my expectations. While the view of the river was nice, and it is close to downtown and the Landing (if the Landing it your scene; it certainly isn't mine), I was very under-whelmed by the hotel itself for the following reasons:
1) the pool area was small and basic, definitely not somewhere to spend a decadent afternoon. The sauna was co-ed which made for an uncomfortable encounter with a man with a staring problem. The women's locker rooms were very out of date.
2) The decor was very outdated, with the 2nd and 3rd floor lobbies in loud teal and peach evocative of the 1980's. The hallways to the guest rooms are small and dank with low ceilings. The rooms have old tvs without premium channels. The lobby is fine though.
3) Our bathroom smelled horrible and was stifling from the minute we walked in. We could only surmise that there was a dead mouse or something in the wall or a/c vent. We asked housekeeping to address the smell while we went to dinner, and returned to find it still smelled. We changed rooms, which was accomplished easily, but in the new room the remote control and thermostat didn't work.
4) There is no concierge. This was very surprising for a hotel this size that caters to business travelers. The porters do double duty giving directions (they didn't have any maps and gave very bad directions for getting to a restaurant they recommended) and restaurant recommendations, but the restaurant they recommended, after we rejected a suggestion for a chain restaurant, turned out to be pretty bad. They were really just pulling names of restaurants off the tops of their heads, rather than having researched and experienced their recommendations as a concierge should. As a result, we would up eating in some pretty disappointing restaurants during our trip.
I did like:
1) the bedding was great
2) good smelling toiletries
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