Stayed here one night for business and it started out poor and never really got much better.

Check in - staff is friendly and smiled and helpful.
The hallways and common areas - have a distinct odor to them, like a wet funky locker room stink

The room - holycow! Got in the room and it sounded like an aircraft engine running in there but it turns out it was the air conditioner. I shut it off so I could lay down and get some rest, but as soon as I laid down on the bed the headboard fell off the wall and onto me. Yup! I'm not making this up. The headboard fell off the wall and onto me.

The room itself was dingy, dark, loud, and overall just an utter disappointment for a Doubletree Hotel.

I called front desk, after some haggling, they finally agreed to give me a new room - one without a falling headboard. New room was nicer than the first, but still just blah. The furnishings in the room like the desk, end tables, lamps - they are all nice and new. It looks nice.
The bedspread, looks like it's from 1950 though. The chair for the desk looked to be even older than that. Lime green, didn't recline at all, and just sort of nasty looking.

From 7-9pm the internet cut in and out. Essentially, making it worthless. A call to the front desk got me nowhere as they said it was just because too many people were online. Would highly recomment that they upgrade their equipment to be able to provide a strong, consistent wifi signal for EVERYONE - not just when the hotel is empty. The lack of reliable internet makes this a very poor choice to stay for a business traveler.

Breakfast was nice.

Overall, the people make this hotel barely tolerable. The actual hotel itself is in dire need of some type of makeover to get rid of the funky smell, to get a/c units that are not obnoxiously loud, to get a decor in the room that is a bit more modern.
I also thought that part of the Doubletree brand was a refridgerator and microwave in each room - there was none of that in my room.


And yes, I wrote all this out and dropped it at the front desk Tuesday and haven't heard anything. Not a peep.

The service at this hotel was very good. It looks like maybe it was another hotel & was purchased & renovated. Good room, very clean, above average size. We loved the warm cookies, of course & they were very generous with them - especially to our 11 year old. The breakfast buffet was small in size but very good & included most everything you could want - except waffles. Don't know about the price since ours was included in our room. You will need a cab to get to the waterfront/main street Annapolis area - about $15 one way. The hotel has a free shuttle for this that was available during our stay.

We stayed for just one night after the mandatory evacuation of Ocean City, MD from hurricane Irene. Hotel is what you'd expect from a Hilton mid-grade property -- moderninized in every regard, very clean, excellent staff. Convenient location right off Route 50 at the Parole, MD exit. 10 mins to downtown Annapolis. One could easily day trip to Ocean City (~2.5 hours), Baltimore (~30 minutes) or D.C. (~ 1 hour). Great shopping/resturants very nearby in the almost-new Shops at Parole (a pedestrian-friendly setup). Highly recommended.

The air conditioning unit in the first room sounded like a diesel generator. I asked for another room, and the one across the hall was just as loud but wasn't quite as rough sounding.

As I was unpacking in the 2nd room, I noticed there wasn't a refrigerator or a microwave. There was clearly room for it, and I thought maybe they had taken it out for service. I asked the front desk, and they said, "no, those rooms down there don't have them." How does an upscale hotel room not have a fridge/microwave?

Lastly, the coffee maker didn't work.

On a high note, the bed is outstanding, and the very loud a/c did keep the room nice and cool.