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| - The Isabella Hotel was quite an experience! Like so many before me, I was sucked in by Groupon and it was an amazing deal - $78 for 2 nights. When we checked out, the hotel did charge us an additional $11 in taxes plus my currency conversion fees brought the two nights to about $93. Had I paid more than $46 a night, I think I would have felt ripped off and like I didn't get a good deal...but based on my experience, everything was A-OK although I wouldn't book the hotel again. The brochure & pictures of the hotel make it look quite a bit better than it actually is.
Positives+
+Price. $46 a night is amazing, but if you're paying their normal rate of $90-$100, I would skip Isabella.
+Free continental breakfast. Chocolate chip muffins, other pastries, cereal, fruit and juices made for a nice free breakfast.
+The staff was all friendly and helpful. From the gentleman who originally took my call & made the reservation to the person who checked us in & the person who checked us out.
+The TV had tons of channels! Having just come from a $300/night hotel in Niagara Falls with just 13 TV channels, I was happy to have a cheap hotel with about 50 options, woohoo.
+After reading reviews of bed bugs, I'm happy to report I did a lot of inspection and our bed was bug free!
+The hotel looks old fashioned and cool from the outside.
+Free wifi in the lobby so you can find people scattered throughout their nice lobby on their laptops & cells.
Negatives-
-Scariest elevator of my life. It was the smallest elevator I've ever been in and made me feel very claustrophobic. The numbers were slanted too, see picture.
-Cigarette burn in the curtain.
-Housekeeping only made the bed 75%. It made me laugh coming back to our room and seeing the bed not made on the top fully.
-Overall not a fancy room and VERY tiny. We made do but be aware the standard room is definitely not for more than 2 people...and a very tight 2 people. No closet, just hangers on a bar. There was a coffee machine in room although we didn't try it.
-Our door didn't seem to lock. It was locking, we tested it, but the door seemed a bit ajar...it was strange. I made sure to always lock the top part of the door for extra security.
-The neighborhood. It was nothing I couldn't handle (shoooot I'm from Chicago), but the park across the street was FULL of strange characters. That meant a bird lady feeding pigeons, a homeless person sleeping on each bench at night, groups of young guys coming up & asking us for a lighter, little old grandmas sitting & staring...creeped me out a bit.
-No free parking! The parking garage across the street was the most shady I've ever been to. It's a huge parking lot is super dirty, cars stacked with dust in one section, they don't tell you where to park but you want to park in a visible spot to the car attendant (not sure if it would make any difference in bad circumstances though). They require a $20 deposit which is super weird...and they will accept that in the form of any currency it seems (Canadian, American, Australian, whatever you have on you) or if you don't have cash on you, then we saw they take people's driver's licenses. We never had an issue with them overcharging us and returning our deposit, but it was just a shady lot.
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