My prices per room / per night were a bit high. Generally prefer Hilton Garden Inns but the local one was not available.
Speedy, accurate check-in.
Nice fitness room, better than most Hamptons. Did not try the pool but was told by another guest that it was warm and that they had a very hot steamy enclosed sauna facility in the pool area as well as the whirlpool.
The vibrant aquarium in the lobby is a wonderful touch.
The standard rooms are the preferred new bed-facing-window orientation, at least for the king rooms that my colleague and I had. Only a shower stall, not a tub, which is fine by me. Nice granite bathroom counter, roomy bathroom, shower stall a little bit grubby (mildew in one or two small spots), showerhead worked great, almost immediate hot water.
The location is quite good in relation to the city, but itself is a little bit seedy, situated right next door to a greyhound racetrack. Got aggressively panhandled at the gas station across the street. Refineries are very very close, downtown is an easy 5-minute-or-less drive, and the airport is under 10 minutes away. The SPID shopping malls and restaurants are only 10 minutes away, too. USS Lexington, under 10 minutes away, too.
I travel a lot. 100 nights a year, probably stayed in around 100 different Hamptons through my travels. The breakfast here was not good at all. Of the three mornings I had breakfast here: the fruit tasted "off" (old) one morning, oatmeal packets didn't appear until at least an hour after breakfast started, the "hot water" was basically room temperature the two mornings I tried it, the hotdish had a cloth napkin tied to the handle, as is usually seen to both dignify the appliance and to help guard against heat and steam burns while opening. Here it looked as if it had not been changed in weeks, dirty and soiled so unappetizingly. The waffle iron was a disaster area - I do not eat them but the batter was flung around a five foot radius. The breakfast "host", when seen, had on headphones and wandered around, he seemed possibly perhaps to be related to the owners and/or managers. I actually overheard one of the desk clerks speaking with an owner/manager about the breakfast situation - she seemed at wit's end, bless her heart. She was fabulous to us but I gather she was having to catch guff about the breakfast situation. Related, two evenings out of three the hot water for some evening tea was either lukewarm or depleted.
When I return I am either going to book at the Hilton Garden Inn in town, or would try the Holiday Inn Express which shares the same parking lot area and opened just a couple of weeks ago...unless I read a review for it and find it's run by the same owners/management and their family breakfast hosts.