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| - I give the majority of the staff five great big, juicy stars. Some of them, eh, not so much. Some people were willing to bend over backward to make sure our meeting was a huge success and every need was met. Others, eh, not so much.
The space is a bit dated (our room for meals was an old disco, and still feels far too close to its old cheesy hotel bar days to be completely ignored), but the sleeping rooms are fairly nice & the beds comfy. Our breakout space was around the Garden Terrace, which, while not much to look at (a bunch of overflow chairs from the pool and a broken fountain featuring odd sculptures), all the rooms had windows, and natural light is GOLD when you're stuck in a hotel for days.
Speaking of sculptures, they commissioned the same artist that the Monaco in SF used - hammered metal animals performing circus acrobat activities abound.
The restaurant for the plebes - Networks is it? Is not actually much of a restaurant. It's a sports bar and they have a little bit of food, mostly wings. Yummy crunchy spicy snacky things though. Maybe they don't need to serve much food here since they have The Compass Room on the 24th floor.
I give the space a wholehearted "meh" despite the stellar service. Would I have a meeting here again? Alas, yes. The rates are good, it's spittin' distance to the convention center and the majority of the staff really did go above and beyond whenever they could.
Also has an Einstein Brothers and UPS annex. Handy.
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