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| - Clearly one of the best places in town, but not super wonderful overall. The entrance is clearly marked along Union South, a building built for student recreation. The hotel lobby is also a student study area. Not a big deal, just expect it. The hotel feels out of place and the concierges get this.
The rooms are very cold, architecturally and temperately. They're big on sustainability, which I applaud, but the choices aren't always intelligent. The heat circulates poorly, and the room apparently can never be warm in winter (no matter the thermostat). Then the bathroom is too big to be efficiently heated, and the shower is a curtain-less stall, so brace for a draft. I was surprised how dorm-like the room felt. The floor is cold tile and short rugs, some dorm-ish paraphernalia on the beds. The furniture feels cheaper than it likely actually is. The sheets were pilly. Again, the heat situation was inane. I don't know who'd build a hotel in cold Wisconsin without designing specifically for heating.
The light switch is somewhat confusing, hidden behind the makeshift closet and requiring a keycard to stay on. When you go to kill the light at night, you'll wonder who designed this inefficient system that makes you stumble around in the dark instead of using light switches, infrared beams, and timers. Also my audible fire alarm was making weird eight-bit buzzing sounds, which they said they'd fix.
Free Wi-Fi. No breakfast included. My rate was less than $80, staying care of an academic department. Checkout by 11. The staff was okay. The hotel was good overall, but not as wonderful as it could have been.
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