My husband and I always try to stay in boutique hotels. Our experiences are usually pretty good. I am really underwhelmed by the St Paul. From the getgo, just going into the lobby, it seemed to me that it might have been real cool when it opened but it looked kind of tired now.
The lobby, elevator and hallways are painted black and have very low lighting which is partly cool and partly obnoxious as is hard to navigate. There are some cool details but they are just slightly off... Like the chipped glass on my nightstand. The two towels (yes, two whole towels!) in the bathroom are motel 8 quality. There's very little storage in the room so we had to leave most of our stuff in our suitcases and stuff around the floor which always bothers me as I like to sleep in a tidy room (OCD much?). They only have queen size beds; another bummer.
The staff is friendly, so that's a plus and we had a beer at the bar today with friends, we had the whole place to ourselves and that was very pleasant.
I will probably not stay here again. Mostly because I'm a huge snob. If you are not then it's probably just fine.