Weekend in Pittsburgh and some spare honors points to burn. My brother suggested this particular hotel for its location. Full disclosure: I prefer staying over by Robinson because it's an area I know. Here we are trying something different on the other side of town.
I will not hold the location of this place against it. But really it's not an area I'd go out of way to stay at under different circumstances. The traffic getting over there near the Liberty bridge is a B on a normal day.
While I'll give them a break on location, there are other things that just don't work. One elevator. One. For a busy hotel, having only one elevator just makes no sense to me. Also, breakfast is a total cluster. So many people, not enough tables, not enough food. They ran out of simple things really quickly. Like ketchup and coffee. It also seems like there's approximately one housekeeper for the building who couldn't get around to our room until 2:30 right as we were coming back.
And the thing that makes this place difficult for me to want to return to? The Internet is probably one of the worst of any place I've stayed to date. It's great to have it but only if it actually works. It dropped out constantly and you could load no pages when in use.
We're the rooms nice and the decor overall lovely? Yes, it's actually a very nice suite setup, but the little annoying things were hard to let go. I can tolerate a lot if the Internet is decent. I know it's terrible to base so much on that, but we all know the stakes here.
This hotel should seem far promising than it actually turns out to be. It just seemed to miss the mark in too many ways in my opinion.