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| - Large and renovated rooms at a pretty cheap price for the event I was in town for, but with the vibe lingering of a 60's motel.
So you have a tiny gift shop but no after-hours convenience food, in the modern style; a "Seattle's Best" coffee stand in the lobby but no free lobby coffee (and then only open a few hours); a full-service restaurant (Michael's) and bar (Impulse) that feel like they're straight out of 1978; an attached pool (OK) and exercise room but ceilings in the hallways that literally scraped my head if I took a tiny jump. And the rooms had that underlying "old hotel under new veneer" smell, although I've experienced worse. (Without windows to open or a fan that can be turned on without being in a heating or cooling cycle, it's a little worse than it has to be, though.) Confusingly, the Wifi supposedly required a password but didn't, and I could still access it at the restaurant across the street, which is both a good thing and horrifying. Rooms are also lacking outlets in the right place, and adding a two-outlet charger on the desk didn't quite make up for having no outlets by the bed. No radio, no microwave, no in-room fridge -- they really seem to want you to drop your money in the restaurant.
Staff were friendly at the desk but a bit clueless at the housekeeping level - if I have the "Do Not Disturb" sign out, that's an invitation to not knock extremely loudly on the doors of either room to the side of me.
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