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| - This hotel loses a star for being ludicriously priced for Pittsburgh. Granted, there are no other hotels in its class in PGH, but there's a reason. People don't come to PGH to blow dough. It's a dumpy little city in the middle of nowheresville, the airport is 30 mins from downtown and downtown shuts down at night. A fancy dinner shouldn't set you back more than a Benji here.
However. I've stayed in enough shitsville hotels in downtown PGH that I make my firm approve my expense account here. And by shitsville, I mean "mismatched stained furniture" and "scary hallways" and "broken treadmills" and "access through underpass." PGH hotels capital Suck.
So much for the competition, because there really isn't any.
The staff is charmingly pleasant, every desire is taken care of, and it's really, really, really safe. You need a room key to take the elevators above the public floors. The gym is luxe. All new precor equipment, spa-like locker room, medicine balls, treadmills with tvs and ipod stations, classes, stuff lovely pretty, tea and coffee. You can even leave your gym clothes behind and have adidas clothes delivered to your room.
The lobby bar is pretty OK, though I can't believe they shut down at midnight on a Wednesday with 12-15 people lingering. I was smart enough to not go back out, since the PGH streets are scary, and I probably didn't need another cocktail (this is a meme), but MIDNIGHT? Sheeps.
I'm always late for work when I stay here; I love the rooms and luxuriating a wee bit too much.
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