Worst Ritz I've ever stayed in - but the good first. I was here for a wedding and the wedding areas were lovely and the food was awesome. Warning though to anyone planning a wedding at this hotel - there is a very well choreographed system of drink removal to run up your bar tab. The second you set your drink down and looked away it is gone! No joke - I had about 5 disappear this way - it was ridiculous. I noticed several people shouting out to the servers to come back with their drinks. It was a total sham to run up the bar bill.
The hotel is old and shabby. The furniture in the lobby is threadbare and worn looking. The rooms are ok - comfy beds but again - old carpet and water stains on the ceiling. The staff - oh where to begin??!? I get it that this hotel is in the inner city- but oh my - the staff was ghetto! They never said hello, but I did hear lots of personal discussions about why they disliked working at the hotel and all about their crazy dead beat ex-husbands (this was as I was sitting in the lobby). It was not up the the standard I would expect of a Ritz. I give it 2 stars because the wedding food and settings were amazing - but the rest was not great.