I have stayed at this Magnolia and the one in Houston a few times on business and always enjoyed them. On this trip to Denver with my wife and son I decided to splurge a bit on this hotel, booking a two queen bed room and springing for the suite upgrade at check-in. The suite consisted of a central living room and kitchen area with a bedroom off either side, a welcome layout after five days together in traditional hotel rooms. Each room had a bath with a large soaking tub and a very vigorous shower head, which I appreciate. Everything was clean, so the basics were covered. The room was dim, lit mostly by compact fluorescent lamps, which brighten over time.
The first thing I would advise other travelers about is that this was a first floor exterior room. Downtown in a big city there will be street noise, and there was in this room. Buses, trolleys, sirens, the whole nine yards. That said, I can't really blame the hotel for being downtown, can I? That is where I wanted to be. And actually, our family consists of fairly heavy sleepers and the noise did not really impact our two night stay. But if you cannot stand noise then perhaps you should be sure to get either an inside, off street room or a room on a high floor.
The wifi in this room was so slow as to be almost useless. I am not sure why room 102 is in a wifi dead spot, but it is. A trip down to the lobby and the wifi was great. On a leisure trip wifi is not such an important thing to me, had I been on a business trip I would have been extremely disappointed. I called the Magnolia service provider and talked to a pleasant young man who could not see any problems with the network, which was probably correct. There just was no signal in our room.
The breakfast perplexes me, it just doesn't seem to be as good as it should be. For bread they had plain bagels and some decent looking bread slices, but no English muffins or regular muffins, no croissants. And one weak ineffective toaster. The hot foods were scrambled eggs, sausages, some sort of individual quiche with a chunk of cooked egg in it, and oatmeal. There were bananas, apples and oranges, but no melon. One flavor of yogurt and some dry cereals rounded out the selection. This buffet compares poorly to your average Hampton Inn breakfast, I guess I expect more when paying north of $300 per night.
This hotel has a really friendly feel to it, and it is well located in Denver, but I walked away a bit disappointed. And I just don't think that is the way it should be.
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