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| - Lousy hotel, especially for the "regular" rate. It only gets two stars from me because when my bf and I stayed there for Anime North, we got the 20% off discount for staying three or more nights. At $100 a night it's actually sort of approaching a remotely acceptable super-budget hotel (except not, because the simple Best Western at its normal rate at that price blows this place out of the water), but absolutely NOT at $120 plus tax.
Well, this hotel is NOT worth it. The rooms are awful. Here's my bulleted list.
-ONE working outlet, maybe two, per room because all the others had power cords or extension cords in them or were loose/broken.
-Our single overhead light (other light being two extremely dull lamps) broke halfway through our stay, and did I mention that first lightswitch you'll encounter doesn't do anything?
-Furniture is worn down and beat to hell- scratches all over the coffee table, old lampshades, faded chairs, bargain-sale desk chair, etc.
-Good god, that fake-brick wall is HIDEOUS, especially with green furniture.
-No mini fridge despite asking for one. There was a keurig, but I don't drink that crap and so never used it. The ice bucket was TINY. You could maybe put a can of pop in it.
-No concierge selling anything but junk food and tacky souvenirs and no breakfast that wasn't an overpriced cold continental thing. Which made breakfasting difficult. We bring our own stuff and eat in our room at conventions to save time and money. HOWEVER- no fridge for milk or to chill our juice boxes, and no concierge with any that wasn't a twenty-minute walk away? Great. Dry cereal and room temperature juice for breakfast with doughnuts that went inexplicably stale in just a day... Likewise, needed to grab some batteries. Nothing even remotely fancy! Just AAs. Nope, no luck, they had none and wouldn't say the nearest place to get some.
-The bedding is AWFUL- the pillows are small and smushy and I had a constant neckache as a result, and not REMOTELY enough bedding (ONE blanket with a duvet cover. No, not a quilt, not a duvet, a BLANKET, that looked like it came out of the army surplus, and no spare in sight in the room). In fact, I also don't think my sheets were actually clean either, because I found hot pink stains near the bottom of the bed and I don't know HOW they could have gotten there from me.
-The bathrooms are also rundown- grungy ceilings, cracks all over the floor tiles, extremely narrow bathtub, a "penis-eating toilet" according to my bf (the lid does NOT stay up), and sorely lacking in amenities (watered-down shampoo/body wash bolted to the wall, same with the conditioner, one bar of hand soap, barely enough towels, nothing else like lotion or a shower cap that even budget hotels usually have). And a LOUD fan that can't be turned off.
-Worst of all, the wi-fi. Almost nonexistent! At night, you will get NO signal. During the morning/day you'll be lucky to connect for ten consecutive minutes.
We didn't bother with the pool, going over to our friends hotels to swim/tub with them, but I heard several people saying that their pool area was a freezing cold joke at best.
The only good points? Elevators are fast and weirdly cheery and the bus stop is literally steps from it. I will NOT EVER stay here again. Book the Courtyard Marriot for LESS on a non-peak/sleazily-jacked-up-rate night (that rant involving hotels is a whole other thing) and it's worlds better for the same price. :P
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