We were initially reluctant to check in here. The neighborhood is not so good, and parking lot signs warned of theft. However, we went ahead and were glad we did. The rooms were clean. The clientele were primarily families or retirees like us. We settled for fast food at the joint next door that evening but had a nice continental breakfast at the motel the next morning. One caution. You'll be driving directly into the sun if going west on the interstate in late afternoon. This made it impossible for us to read the highway exit signs. We missed the right exit on this account but were lucky in finding the motel from the next exit. One more caution: On the map it looks as if this motel is on the edge of Houston. Actually it is well inside and subject to rush hour traffic.

I stayed here for six nights in May 2006. It is not really near the Galleria and with the major (major) roadworks this made the distance more obvious.

A decent room but the whirlpool bath made it smell of damp the entire time. Service was average with me needing to remind them of the type of room I had booked. They also weren't as friendly compared with other places I have stayed in Houston.

Good things include, the high speed internet access which was easy to hook up and the fact that the floor was quiet. Good parking access, reasonably safe and had convenient places to eat nearby. The daily chambermaid service was good. The ZIP code is not included in the provided magazine listings of Houston takeaway services so redundant as the vast majority of those are not available.

Frankly, it was ok but there are better places in Houston to stay.

The hotel is o.k. with reasonably large, clean rooms. The small indoor pool was perfectly adequate, in fact move the hotel to a nicer spot and it would receive my recommendation. However, with major road works currently underway in Houston it feels really cut off. It is also not that close to the Galleria, do not assume you will see a view like the one used to advertise the hotel.

The first night was a nightmare in the morning. Water was running through the ceiling into the room as we took a shower and the toilet was also running over at the same time so I had to stand on the tub and jump over the stinky water into the part of the room but when I hit the seemingly dry carpet it splashed everywhere because it wasn`t just in the bathroom but soaking under the carpet in the other room and also got on some of my clothes that were touching the floor...yuk I washed my feet in the sink and then stepped in it again because it was running under the carpet. I washed again, got my shoes on right away, called the front desk and started gathering my things.

They gave us another room and thought it was funny how we "went swimming". The other two nights were ok exept for the carpet needed cleaning and was kind of gummy/gritty feeling under my feet...so I put my shoes back on.

The breakfast lobby looked really nice, the food was fresh and good coffee as well. The fitness/laundry room has coin laundry machines, one fitness machine with a pulldown, a rickety wobbly ski type machine, a bike and a decent treadmill but the key was missing so I folded up some paper for a key to get the treadmill to work. It proved to be a really nice treadmill and I did like the treadmill.

I realize this kind of thing can happen anywhere but they did not give us any compensation for the maintenance problem fiasco of any sort. No free night, no reduced priced nothing. It was a 90 something dollar "swim" for that first night and the other two nights were fine exept for the carpet which I tolerated because I was tired and did not want to move our stuff again.

Overall the stay at the motel would have been better had they had compensated us for the bad room.