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| - I had a decent experience overall. I stayed for four nights while attending a conference at the University of Illinois, and the price was reasonable -- not a fantastic deal or anything, but a fair value.
I'll start with the good stuff. First of all, their free breakfast is the best I've ever seen at this kind of hotel; they have the standard cereals and pastries and stuff, but they also make custom omelets and hot dishes like home fries, bacon, and sausage, and the coffee is totally decent. They have a free shuttle to and from the airport, and if you ask nicely, they can sometimes be convinced to shuttle you to other places, like your conference venue. The rooms are pretty spacious, and they have soaps and shampoos and stuff from Bath and Body Works, which is a step up from the usual. Oh, and I saw another reviewer complain that there was no wireless in the rooms, but there is now -- I had no trouble connecting.
Now for the not so good. The walls are apparently paper thin, as I could clearly listen to my neighbors' televisions, discussions, phone calls, and erotic encounters. The bathroom is incredibly tiny. And what the hell is up with the water pressure? I get that they're trying to be green and conserve and all that, but it is not possible to thoroughly wash and rinse one's hair with what amounts to a fine mist spraying lightly from the shower head.
Oh, and one other thing. This place managed to screw up my reservations TWICE, despite the fact that I was travelling for a conference that had a whole block of rooms reserved, presumably for the correct dates. I called to confirm a few days before my trip, and they had my dates all wrong. I had them fix it, but I was suspicious, so I called to confirm AGAIN the day before I left, and guess what? Wrong again. Seriously. I'd probably give the place four stars, honestly, if it weren't for the difficulty making reservations.
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