After reading the reviews, I was scared to stay, but I was pleasently surprised. If you stay in the new section, the rooms are good sized and comfortable. The AC and shower worked very well and the room was quiet for sleeping. The Tap Room is good for having a adult beverage before going out to dinner. We had the breakfast package which I recommend,

You can't beat the location if you need to go to the Princetion campus. I recommend it.

Let me tell you: I'm not some fancy-pants person. I stayed here in July expecting a nice hotel room on par with a Ramada. What we got is on par with a sleezy Rt. 1 motel. The bathrooms were last updated in the 60s. Everything was old. Dank room. A/C in room barely worked, despite the old print-out instructions that were taped to the radiator. Had to actually stick hand inside radiator to control A/C with an on-off switch. Yankee Doodle Taproom needs a complete overhaul as well. Outdated Roy Rogers tiles on the floors.

This hotel is in a perfect location. Somebody needs to buy it and do a complete overhaul. And the rooms aren't cheap! Never EVER again. Travler beware.

I was in town for an event at Princeton. The location can't be beat. The hotel is very central to the University and near many shops and restaurants. We enjoyed walking around the area. Also the front desk staff was very good -- helpful and attentive.

The reason I won't stay here again is the rooms. Our room was dirty. There was a cobweb on the ceiling above our bed that was larger in area than a sheet of paper. There were cobwebs on the lights in the bathroom. The carpet was dirty. There was mildew all over the tiles in the bathroom. I'm not a clean freak but I would have changed hotels if my son (who was already asleep when we arrived) weren't sleeping on a portable bed with sheets that we had brought ourselves. My husband wouldn't eat at the hotel restaurant because of the impression that the room gave him about the care for sanitation at the hotel. The room was incredibly dark and dreary even with every light in the room on. The bathroom was very poor quality and outdated. I'm not abnormally tall and I had to duck to get under the showerhead, which I can't remember having to do before. There was also something wrong with the ventilation system because after we got back from breakfast the hotel room smelled musty and just bad. The hotel portrays itself as being a high end country inn but the quality rooms are more similar to (and frankly worse than) a marginal roadside inn. I don't know if we happened to be in an unrenovated part of the hotel but the room we were given was truly awful.

Tired is probably the best word I could use to describe this hotel. I knew from reviews it wouldn't be a great stay, but the location was best of available options for my business trip.

On the plus side, the location is terrific - the only hotel in downtown Princeton, which perhaps explains why they don't feel the need to invest in maintaining things as much as they would if they had closer competitors. The staff also offered prompt and friendly service - during check in/out and from room service.

On the negative side, it's just in bad need of sprucing up. The hallway carpets, room walls, bedding and bath all looked like it had been many years since they had been renovated. The room was clean but worn around the edges, particularly the bathroom. There is virtually no soundproofing - I could hear every door opening and closing along the hall and overheared a conversation in the next room which didn't seem to be overly loud.

My television had terrible feedback on several channels, making the sound garbled and forcing me to change stations.

I tried room service for dinner due to a late arrival and found the menu pretty uninspired and my grilled salmon overcooked and bland.

In future, I'd deal with the extra commute time and stay further out from downtown.