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| - I've been thinking about this review over for a while for not typing it out because, honestly, I'm not sure how to sum up my experience.
The location is great. It's near public transportation, and near enough to interesting things that I spent a couple of afternoons just walking places from the hotel. The rooms were quite nice, attractive but a little dated.
One elevator, out of two in the building, didn't work the entire time I was there. I saw a few reviews mentioning this on Yelp before I went, but I didn't think it would be a big deal. It actually is a big deal because of the nightclub on the roofdeck. There was a twenty minute wait Saturday night to get on an elevator filled with drunk glittery people who rolled their eyes and muttered obscenities because they had to stop at my floor on the way up.
The rooftop bar and club is the part of my stay I feel weirdest about. As a guest, I was allowed use of the bar and rooftop deck. On Tuesday my beau and I sat, drank, talked, and enjoyed the view until, without warning, they kicked us out.
The waitress suddenly decided to tell us that every table was SUPPOSED to be marked reserved, even though none were, and even though she had been serving us for an hour and a half where we were sitting without objection. The people who had "reserved" our table had just arrived, she told us, and so we had to go. We were nicely but not fancily dressed, but the people getting our seats were ostentatiously wealthy, which I think is why we were asked to leave.
If she had told us right when we sat down that the table was reserved, that would be one thing. What stung was the painful obviousness of the lie. We complained at the front desk, and the bar manager said he would refund our drinks for that night, but then when we examined the bill at home, we found he had not. (After complaining again over the phone they did remove the charges.) I know this seems nitpicky, but we paid for that room with the understanding that we would be allowed to use that beautiful rooftop bar. If they want to limit the use by us plebeians and only have the jet set up there at certain hours or certain tables, they should be up front about that.
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