I elected to stay here this year on a business trip (I teach Property Management courses a couple of times a year) and was here for 6 days/5 nights (Sunday-Friday) in June 2011.
Chose this location to be closer to the classroom site and for the services/space the hotel had. Great breakfast each morning. Quite hotel, even when they got busy on Thursday/Friday for all of the Army School graduations at Ft. Benning, just down the road.
Decent internet speed for work, the wireless was just OK. Still B version at 11mbs. Should be upgraded to the new N speed. "B" wireless can only be called "High Speed" because it is not dial-up!
Finally, the ONLY complaint ... this hotel is NOT Smoke Free!!!
They allow smoking only in a few room that are all on the top floor. I always stay in the top floor of these low rise hotels because you never want the thundering herd above you. In this case, they did not tell me that the only smoking rooms were on the top floor. The hotel is shaped like the letter "L" and instead of having all of the smokers in one leg of the "L", they put them on side of the hall and non-smoking rooms on the other side. What genius thought that the smoke wouldn't know to cross the hall??? I thought that since I was going to be gone all day and most evenings it wouldn't bother me, but it did.
Make sure you stay on a fully NON-Smoking floor when staying here. Top floor wreaks of smoke in the hall as only chain smokers stay in the smoking rooms anymore. Ugh.
- Staybridge Suites Columbus
