After having a recent bad experience in a HIE in Texas, we were extremely pleased with the friendly reception staff who were also exceptionally helpful in trying to provide us with a quiet room in what is not a quiet area. Although we could still hear the busy Interstate from our room, they had put us as far away from the road as they could. Please note though if you want to sleep during the day, don’t get the room next to the housekeeping room, you won’t get much sleep once the laundry starts, the washing machine (I am assuming that was the cause) shakes the bedside lamp and table and the vibration can be felt through the floor.
Good sized bathroom and bath towels. The bed was extremely comfortable although the pillows could do with renewing, they were quite lumpy. There is a fridge and microwave in the room and a good sized work desk, really good facilities. The hotel does provide room service via delivery service from local restaurants I believe. We found the booklet advertising this after we had walked around the block trying to find somewhere to eat and had eventually ordered a Chinese meal to be delivered to our room. We would have ordered an Italian meal via the hotel had we known.
Breakfast typical HIE. Cheese omelettes and bacon, these were in the same heated cabinet so the omelettes tasted like smoked bacon, OK if you like meat, no good for vegetarians. There was a good selection of cereals, breads, muffins etc. Coffee and juice was OK as well.
There is an outside pool and hot tub, we did not try this as the weather was not suitable, but I would imagine the noise from the road would force you away fairly soon.
We got a taxi booked by the hotel to the local mall and river way restaurant area. Beware of this particular taxi company, the driver charged us $23 for the 3 mile trip; we got a different company back for $10.
There are a couple of computers and a printer in the business centre, very handy, we printed off our boarding passes for our next days flights.
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