1. No TV channel guide or hotel/city information in the room. Pretty odd for a hotel attached to the Convention Center.
2. Rooms facing College Ave. (front of hotel) are very loud. Police and/or ambulances run past hotel often during the day and night with sirens on and the windows do nothing to drown it out. You can hear every car drive by on the street and any conversations outside. If you plan on staying here, I'd advise asking for a back-facing room.
3. Room wasn't ready by 3pm on day I checked-in due to not being cleaned yet. Several other people were waiting for rooms to be cleaned to check-in also.
4. On second day I left the room at 7:30am and returned at 4pm. The room had not been touched by housekeeping. When I called the front desk, the lady said that "they got a late start and probably just haven't gotten to your room yet." She asked if I still wanted them to clean it, but I told her not at 4pm when I'm back in my room. She never even apologized.
5. Nice new large HDTV in room and bed was pretty comfortable.
6. Close to downtown businesses, restaurants.

My wife and I stayed at this Courtyard while in Bloomington to look at houses because we're moving there next month. I put in a bid for Priceline and got this hotel which didn't receive great reviews so I was a little disappointed that I had "won" my bid.

We didn't check in until after midnight and before we left I had put in a request for a King bed which they were able to do. Ed checked us in and was friendly and in moments we were up to our room.

The room was average but was clean and even had a couch in it with a 42 inch HDTV which was awesome. Most hotels have big TV's but not HD service so that was a pleasant surprise. The Wi-Fi worked great and housekeeping was even nice enough to leave extra dirty laundry bags for us without us asking so there's a shout out to them for doing that. The shower pressure was good and the water was warm pretty much instantly.

I only had 2 issues with this hotel. The first being that if you're on the side of the hotel that faces the road it can be very loud. I had read this in reviews but wasn't worried, i usually prefer some noise when I sleep but this was a bit loud for my tastes. It was mostly road noise and College Ave seemed to be busy at all hours at night. Because I had read this in reviews I was aware thus didn't complain because really that's a design flaw of the hotel and because we checked in late I didn't want to switch rooms. Our floor seemed to be deserted so noise from other rooms was not an issue.

The other problem was that the sound on the TV wouldn't work on some channels. The picture worked fine but no sound. Our first day there I mentioned it to the front desk agent and she explained that if I unscrewed the cable from the wall for about 30 seconds and plugged it back in it should work. I did that when we returned that evening and it worked. I had to do this again each time we turned the TV off and back on again so it got a little annoying because to do this you have to move the dresser out a bit from the wall which is insanely heavy.

Overall this Courtyard is decent but as others have said, it needs some freshening up to bring it into the 2000's. New linens and paint could probably go a long way. That said the location is great, its great walking distance to IU and all the awesome restaurants in the downtown area. I'd probably stay here again but I'd never do it for full price.

No better than the average Courtyard. Was happy with the location, and the free Wi-Fi.
Bed was a touch soft for my liking, shower was plenty hot.
I feel like these Courtyards are somewhat overpriced, it is a decent basic hotel. Nothing more, nothing less.

Located right on College Ave a block or so from all the downtown hot spots.

I have never understood what is so good about Courtyards. There are so many good hotels these days, and better for the price. The stay was fine, but this somewhat dated theme is outdated. The rooms look like something from the 'early 90's. Location is downtown so that was a plus.