This is a beautiful property located on the site of the 1982 World's Fair. The hotel's staff was friendly and accommodating, and our room was extremely clean and beautifully decorated. Actually, the entire hotel was extremely well maintained, clean and beautifully decorated. We ate at the hotel restaurant several times during our stay and the food was tasty and nicely prepared. Even the dinner buffet was good. Two of the wait staff in particular, Sean and Siler, were excellent and made our dining experiences even more enjoyable.
This is also an eco-friendly hotel which requires a little getting use to. You have to use your room key to get the heating/air conditioning unit to operate. Initially, our unit would not operate but the maintainence staff was very quick to come up to our room and reset the unit. After that, everything worked fine.
On the negative side, our bathroom, while nicely appointed, was extremely small and tight. Also, the hotel bar closed at 11:00 pm and did so by turning on harsh bright lights to chase the patrons away. The Sunday breakfast buffet had a nice assortment, but the food was not very hot.
Lastly, we were there as part of a group using the Convention Center facilities which were very nice, but because of the parking restrictions, the unloading and loading was very inconvenient. For a facility of this size, you would think they would have better accommodations for unloading and loading. Other than that, I liked the Convention Center.
Overall, this is a nice property and despite the few negaitves, I would stay there again.
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