The hotel is located off a major highway, about 15 minutes from downtown Austin. Unless you have a car, you are screwed: it is impossible to walk anywhere, and there is no public transportation. Taxis in Austin appear to be a rarity - maybe this was just due to SXSW, but I had a 90 minute wait the first day I was there, and a 2 hour wait the second day: kind of kills plans. The hotel is a curious mixture of luxe and cheap, with cheap winning out ultimately. Breakfast is self-serve on polystyrene. The rooms themselves are decent size, but the finish is rushed and cheap - botched paintwork and finishing, loose wires, actual footprints and wheel-tracks in the concrete floor in the lobby. Peculiar. I disagree with the other reviewers who found the hotel romantic: granted, I was traveling alone, and as I mentioned, felt very isolated: but even so, romance would not be what I'd associate with this place, more like amateurishness
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