What the hotel website doesn’t make clear is just how Spartan the rooms are. We had what was labeled a “double room on the patio.” The website describes the double rooms as “big, comfortable, and quiet.” However, here is what we found:
--The double bed is pushed against one wall, so the person in the wall spot doesn’t have a side table (i.e., nowhere to put a glass of water, a book, etc.) and has to crawl either over the other person or to the foot of the bed to get out.
--There is a single simple chair, a narrow shelf at chest height, and a tiny built-in side table for the lucky person who has the outside spot on the bed. (Morning coffee in the lobby is a nice touch, but if you’d like to take it to your room to enjoy, you have limited options for where to put it and where to sit.)
--There is space for a single piece of luggage in the closet; anything else has to go on the floor.
--There is a sliver of a window on the wall facing into the atrium. OK, maybe it’s more than a sliver, but not much. It sure doesn’t let in much natural light or fresh air. The overall feeling is of being inside a small closed white box.
Yes, the hotel is clean, there are interesting contemporary paintings on the walls, wi-fi works well, and the staff is nice. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as represented, and it was a disappointment. The Average rating is given reluctantly; itshould really be taken as an Average-minus.
