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| - I give this place a 3-star rating but I have to say I would likely never stay here again.
No, it's not because I've been spoiled staying at other places. In fact, TI is a very nice hotel...piping a warm vanilla scent (eerily reminiscent of a stripper) in their guest room hallways.
The linens in the rooms appeared clean (to the naked eye). We still made sure to rinse out the glasses as a result of the horror stories you hear about maids using furniture polish to clean them. TV could have been a tad bigger and the window was very small, effectively shrinking our wonderful strip view.
I wouldn't come back here because of two things: The astronomical prices of food in the Vietnamese side of their diner and their valet parking.
Diner: One can argue Hey, it's in a hotel. It's supposed to be expensive. I get it...I totally do and that's what I told hubby when we stopped by one evening. But the more I thought about it, the more unjust it seemed to charge 100% more for a bowl noodles just because it's in a hotel. Le'ts keep in mind - this is the hotel DINER. Not some fancy restaurant or gastronomic interpretation of pho. It's just straight up pho.
Valet: About 75% of the time we approached the valet desk, there was no one there. A couple times, there were a few of us, holding our tickets, looking around for who can help bail our cars out of what could potentially be a very sneaky way of perpetrating grand theft auto. When we checked out, there was consistently about 100 people in the waiting area. For the 45 minutes that we waited there, I realized there were only 3 VALET GUYS. (Oh yeah, and no one was taking tickets when I first showed up.). There would be 5-10 minute lulls when there were NO cars being pulled up.
The percentage breakdown of why I wouldn't go back to TI is about 30% Diner and 70% Valet. This might not matter to many people, especially if you're used to just taking taxis but it just seemed like an easily overlooked yet potentially frustrating service deficiency in a hotel.
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