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| - Spent a getaway night here. Good: The hotel is clean, quiet and interesting. A nice break from traditional chains. The rooms are spacious. I think we paid a total of a little less than $300 for a king room. They offer cool packages for local events. I love the location. Not so good: The hotel has some asynchronous features. It is genteel old-works and tasteful until you notice the garish ATM in the lobby-the kind they throw in the vestibule of a bar. It's just tacky. The hotel offers free what they call "German continental breakfast". It is served in a room where classical music plays softly in the background. They might be aspiring to a European feel but fall so far short. With complete honesty, I have to say that the offerings and the quality of them were on par with what you can pick
Up at a Super 8 motel. Hard boiled eggs, instant oatmeal, yogurt toast, bagels, pastries. The bread is literally from loaves you'd pick up for your grade/schooler's lunch-just mass produced commercial
Loaves. The butter is in those silly tiny foil- topped packets. The jam/jelly is those Smuckers packs you get at every low-brow greasy spoon you ever ate at (and that's fine unless you are shooting to be above that as the Priory is). You know how the really cheap places' Smuckers packs are all apple, grape and "mixed fruit?", i.e., the cheap flavors? Well that's what they serve. Now with all that negativity spewed, it's only fair to say that unlike any Super 8 or quality inn, the breakfast does include a large selection of deli meats and cheeses. I think they should either stop offering it or do it right. It is totally possible to offer an elegant continental breakfast. Upgrade it or drop it.
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