We scored a great deal on a room at Hotel 71 so decided to make a 3 day mini vacation out of it. The hotel is right on the other side of the river and Michigan Ave is is in walking distance. When you arrive at the hotel they have some lounge style music playing outside and very attentive doormen waiting to help or open a door for you. Check is was quick and efficient and provided us with a map. Be sure to take the correct elevator, they have express elevators to the higher floors 26+. Ice makers are NOT on every floor, only a few select floors.
Our room was clean, spacious and modern looking. We booked the basic city view king room and had plenty of room and an animal print sitting couch. The room included a Keurig single serve coffee/tea machine. (included 2 breakfast blend, 1 decaf and 1 green tea pod). The bathroom toiletries were nice, I enjoyed the orange scent of the shampoo and soap. Towel were nice, smelled fresh, shower had great pressure and steady water temps.
The wifi at the hotel is very slow, i was getting less than 500k up and down after various speed test through out the day. I finally decided to ask the front desk and they suggested I call the "IT" desk, I called them and they told me they throttle the bandwidth to 512k up/down. That is pretty bogus, you are staying at a business hotel and they can't even offer you a 1mb connection.
I would stay here again, great location to the sights, buses, L train ect.
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