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| - Decent hotel, just not for extended stays. I stayed for a couple weeks since hotels closer to the city were booked and the commute is about 30 minutes to and from downtown Pittsburgh (45 minutes to an hour during peak rush hours). There are restaurants within about a 10 minute drive if you don't want to eat at the airport or the hotel restaurant. The rooms have pretty new TVs, but the channel selection is limited (networks, sports, news, FX, Discovery, TBS, HGTV, vanilla HBO, and not much else) and the picture was blurry. The ice machines were pretty dirty and left some little black specks in my ice bucket. My room didn't have a refrigerator and I was disappointed to not have a complimentary breakfast. Free wifi was included and a glitch in their login system gave me a free upgrade to the premium wifi a few nights. Speed was good enough for Netflix on my laptop (~1-5Mbps). Housekeeping did a pretty good job. Towels were replaced daily, sheets every other day, glasses every other day. Unfortunately, housekeeping sometimes came late in the day. Two days housekeeping wasn't finished before 5pm, and I just put up the do not disturb sign one of those days when they hadn't come by 6. Parking gets pretty expensive. You get the option of hotel parking at $25/night with unlimited entry and exit, short-term airport parking at $4/hr up to $24/entry, long-term airport parking at $3/hr up to $13/entry, or extended airport parking at $8/entry. The hotel lot is much more convenient than the others, but you pay extra for it. I lucked out and parking wasn't added to my bill, but this was almost certainly a fluke.
Overall, the hotel isn't great, but it isn't bad. If you just have to stay overnight between flights, the convenience is great, but if you are going into town or staying a while I'd recommend somewhere else. The cost is too high for what you get.
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