Hmm. Ultimately a hotel is a place to sleep and this one was pretty good at that. And it was a reasonable price for being downtown. But I can't count the number of times that my friends and I (there were 7 of us in 3 rooms) said, "this is a really weird hotel..."
- you pay before your stay
- the rooms have numeric keypad entries like houses can have. So remember to lock your door when you leave! We didn't realize this initially
- the suites with kitchenettes are handy, modern, but very ikea.
- the rooms are incredibly hot. The little home sized air conditioning unit doesn't quite do the trick.
- our shower plugged up and wouldn't drain on first use. I went down to front desk, they were very pleasant and said they'd send someone the next morning, that they couldn't switch us rooms because the hotel was fully booked. Understandable. At 2pm the next day someone came to look at our shower. Good thing I'd found the plunger labeled 'for shower/sink only' and fixed it myself because we had to be at a wedding by 3.
- the morning of our checkout a woman knocked on our door at 9:30 to ask when we'd be ready to checkout. Well, considering checkout is 11, probably around then. (Our room was missing its 'do not disturb' sign).
So. We had a fine time. The TV worked and the beds were comfortable. It did the trick. But we probably wouldn't stay again.