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| - Visually, this is one of my favorite hotels in the country. It's in walking distance of many things and is close to the airport, which is important to me.
A few years ago they began a huge undertaking of redoing the interior. They succeeded in making the lobby visually stunning, lots of artistic touches easily overlooked unless one takes a moment to take it all in.
I've never had any issues with a slow front desk, no more so than any other hotel in America.
The rooms are hit and miss, as they seem to be in the middle of renovating them. Understand, they are not going to do them all at once! But I can say, since I finally got one on this visit (2 nights ago) that the new rooms are as visually stunning as the lobby.
The rooms are very modern and colorful. I love the leather wallpaper behind the beds and the desk is like a cockpit. I really don't care for the glass table top, however, it never looks clean. I'm also not a fan of the new roll up and down window shades. It takes so much effort to open or close the window, having to pull that silly metal string.
As for the huge TV, sux ass. I hate these new wide screen TVs hotels have, and they never allow us to change the aspect ratio, so the picture is always warped and bothers my eyes. When you put a square picture in a retangle screen, it's going to look wrong.
But my biggest issue with this room was that it connected to a room next door. When my neighbor got up, much earlier than I, I could hear what was going on in the bathroom as if they were in my bathroom. I even raised my head and took a look to make sure! I could hear hear the shower curtain being moved, the hair dryer, the toilet flush. I'm happy they didn't sing or fart a lot!
As usual, I'm not just complaining, I wrote it up to mgt and passed it along during check out.
I've stayed in this hotel a few times a year over the past 9 years and this was the worst I've heard it. So I hope not to get room 1209 again.
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