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| - Overall I had no major problems with this hotel. The lobby area is interesting, with the indoor pool and two-story water slide right in the center. There's a bar and a restaurant just inside the lobby, and an expensive Japanese restaurant on the 14th floor.
The wifi was free and worked pretty consistently, with a couple of drops depending on where I was. The food at the main restaurant in the lobby, called "Whitesides", was about average (review: http://www.yelp.com/biz/whitesides-terrace-grille-toronto#hrid:CzblVcLPRS-rNZlomW2Kyg ). I went up to the 14th floor to check out the Japanese restaurant (promoted in the lobby as "The Cities (sic) Best Japanese Restaurant") but the menu posted by the entrance included only two selections, each of which was $55. So I turned around and went elsewhere, not looking at the giant promotional sign again as I passed by it the second time for fear I'd feel compelled to correct the grammar with a Sharpie and get kicked out of the hotel.
If it hadn't been for the customer's suggestion (they got a corporate rate here), I wouldn't have considered this an ideal hotel for business travelers. Probably due to the pool (which I admit, is awesome) the vast majority here were families with small, squealing/screaming children. I'm not particularly sensitive to that, so it didn't bother me too much, but if you really need your quiet then it's something to take into consideration.
The first two floors around the lobby area reek intensely of chlorine because of the pool, so that's another thing to consider when booking a room.
Oh, also - no refrigerators in the rooms, although I believe you can request one at the front desk. I'm not sure if there's a nightly charge or not.
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