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| - This place was OK but very over-priced for what you get.
While we waited to check-in (only one clerk at the desk handling another couple and the phone - great first impression, Sofitel!), we looked around the lobby and it is really quite overdone and mismatched. Ugly mural on the wall and garish carpeting of two many colors to count. Finally, we were given our room key and we got onto the elevator. The elevators were worse than the lobby - just too much going on. Who designed this place?
Fortunately the room was tastefully done and really had all the amenities we needed. The beds were super comfy - they had the soft mushy pad on top of the mattress that I could have melted into, it was really nice.
Bathroom was nice - you can listen to the TV in there, and answer the phone, but not call out. Big tub and the shower had nice water pressure and heat. The toiletries provided included a nice loofah, and the shampoos and lotions were high-end French products from L'Occitane en Provence, if I recall.
Unless you are extremely well-off, do NOT go to the hotel restaurant for breakfast. The food is delicious but each plate is about $15, including fruit and granola, or a bagel with cream cheese. Plus, it was a weekday, we had a meeting to get to, and we had to walk around the place to find someone and convince him to take our order. It took a long time to get coffee let alone breakfast at this place. And, it was packed, so the economy must not be all that bad if 100 people are paying that much for breakfast and can afford to wait for it.
I know hotel prices fluctuate, and sometimes everything else is full (that's what happened to us), so if you see a cheap rate, and/or have few options, I am not ruling out the Sofitel. Just shop around, because unless there's a diabetes conference in town (there was for us!), you should be able to find a better place.
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