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| - This one's a toughie. First, if you're setting your expectations at the typical Holiday Inn level, you should probably up them. Second, if you took my first instruction and ran with it expecting a boutique-ified Holiday Inn, you should probably lower them.
The good news is that this Holiday Inn has had a facelift that makes everything look really shiny and swank. It's pretty central (says the guy from Halifax who never knows where he is), and certainly does the trick for a working trip. Wireless is free for guests (although you have to reenter your code every time you reconnect), there's a decent café just out front, and the beds are comfy.
The bad news is that the facelift is pretty much just that. Hot water seemed to take a solid five minutes to come in on the shower, some of the facecloths were stained, and the swankified rooms are pretty small. I could have made a viral video hit had I recorded trying to maneuver the too big ironing board out of the too small closet and the 'do not disturb' signs seem to have no more influence than a teenager telling his parents, "YOU NEED TO KNOCK FIRST! I NEED MY PRIVACY!"
Still, I have to give them props. Someone must have accidentally delivered one of those massive, overpriced hotel gift bags of goodies to my room during on of my days - Kit Kats, Breton crackers, Babybell cheeses, Starbucks drinks, and a freaking kilogram of roasted almonds - and when I called down to clear up the mistake, they just apologized and told me to keep it.
Nice move, Holiday Inn!
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