If you are thinking about any other way than taxi of getting to this hotel from O’Hare don’t bother; $44 will cover it. It’s about half an hour without hold ups. Reception is huge and quite impressive, quick check in, staff were ok if not particularly friendly. I guess the high number of residents at the cheaper end of the price scale dictates this. Long walk (a full block) to the other end of the building to a small elevator that didn’t work half the time. Up to the floor, reasonable room overlooking a side street. Net curtains always closed! Slept well, shower was ok if not special, no issues, down to breakfast at the place next to the bar. Casual service, average food, high prices for what it was, poor surroundings wouldn’t eat there twice. In the evening the bar was ok, prices not bad, bar food looked ok but we chose to eat out after the “breakfast”. When the lift went down, I had to walk through the staff only areas, which were disgusting, to get up stairs to my room. A couple of times they opened a door up truly horrendously tricky stairs that could be used instead.
The location is only good for the park and the concert hall, there’s nothing much nearby so everything is a cab or a long walk.
This hotel is huge, impersonal, dated – there’s no way I’d use it again.
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