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| - If this is the best boutique hotel in Phoenix, change your plans and stay at a non-boutique hotel. The pool is gorgeous. Gorgeous and filled with kids and teenage girls, guys with cowboy hats holding beers and smoking (while in the pool). I hope you like the hotel's music, because they play it over the pool area and all the rooms surround this area: so you hear it in your room. The gym is a room with three very old machines and a broken treadmill. It feels like storage room. Also, they're using that space to store things. Get it?
The food at the restaurant is solidly good, as are the drinks. However, if they ask you if you want to sit at the counter (like, if you're a solo guest as I was), they mean the large work area where the waiters and waitresses are processing their checks, where the kitchen staff comes and slams down the washed silverware and glasses, where five feet from your food, an assembly line of people are folding napkins or polishing silver. And you're facing the kitchen entrance. Mind you, this is not an exposed kitchen like was all the rage in restaurants (15 years ago): you're just staring at the, literally not joking, kitchen sink and the expo line.
In the rooms, you get a desk chair and a bed. No sofa, love seat or anything to put your luggage on. But the fridge is big. The TV is huge but there are no movie channels available. There seemed to be an option for movies, but no one in the hotel knew how to make it work. Also not a joke. They couldn't find anyone to get the TV to work.
If it matters to you, the headboards are not connected to the wall so if you plan on getting your freak on, or if you neighbors bump nasties, you will here every banging against the wall.
Lest the people think I'm being mean, please note that most staff and waiters and waitresses were awesome. Very friendly and attentive. The blond, blue-eyed front desk guy is total eye-candy. This review is NOT a reflection of the people. And it's only my personal experience one weekend in the case that it might help you make up your mind about staying here.
The other reviews and representations of this hotel and restaurant lead one to believe that they are going to a modernist or midcentury remodel with all the attention to customer experience one might expect comes with the smart design and hip, contemporary approach to hotels. But this is NOT that place.
It's sort of a mess with a pretty surface and a really good restaurant and bar. And at least the weekend I was there, it was hopelessly straight, filled with fraternity and sorority types, loud, obnoxious, rude to the staff, and so on. Think Mtv's Real Life or Jersey Shore kind of atmosphere in the pool area. Not joking. Not exaggerating. So if that's your idea of some time by the pool, now you know the clientele this place is attracting.
So while everything about the website and reviews leads one to believe it might be a cute place for a gay getaway: it's not that. Not that it needs to be either. Again, I'm just trying to help people considering it among other options.
I hope this helps others!
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