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| - We got this place via Priceline's name-your-own-price bid and then immediately became horrified as we read through the yelp reviews. Scary stuff in here: bed bugs, horrible service, no blankets, blood stains, et cetera. Well calm down right now: it was nowhere near as bad as it had been depicted.
The lobby smells of cigarettes but the room did not.
The first thing we did upon arrival was tear off all the sheets and inspect them thoroughly. We then lifted up the mattress and inspected it thoroughly top and underside, then we tipped up the box spring and inspected it thoroughly, then I took the pillows out of the cases and inspected both the pillows and cases thoroughly. Good news sports-fans: no bed bugs, no blood stains.
There was a blanket as well as a sheets, just not a big foofy comforter. It was the kind of blanket the Army would issue you for a barracks really, which personally I prefer because god knows what could be burrowing inside all that foofiness.
The rooms have a false divider between the bed/bath area and an atrium area. There is also a bar-like area so I guess you could host a party if you wanted to.
Wifi is present but you don't have a secure network for your room. The ID and key they give you seems to grant access to a network shared by all hotel guests. Not my idea of security. It was a bit sluggish as well. It did it's job fine as far as search engines went, but don't think you're going to stream netflix or anything, and I didn't feel comfortable logging into my bank account.
That said, I was in one room of over 100, so who knows. I was fortunate enough to not have to argue with guest relations at any point so I cannot comment as to their relative obstinacy or responsiveness. Best hotel experience of my life: certainly not. A nightmare experience worthy of novelization: no, not that either. You get what you pay for, just so long as you don't pay their asking price.
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