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It was quite a beautiful hotel. The lobby is moder...

It was quite a beautiful hotel. The lobby is modern and very beautiful.

The hotel itself has a Starbucks and two restaurants attached to it. A very nice little lounge in the front for sitting or working and a small convenience shop if you forgot to pack something. The hotel is within walking distance of MANY shops, restaurants, and amenities. I took a short walk to Finagle A Bagel for breakfast each morning. The breakfast sandwiches were AMAZING.

We booked Standard Queen room, but I guess all they had left when we checked in were accessible rooms. Because of that, we had a king bed and more walk-way space to accommodate wheelchairs. I hear other rooms were very small. My room wasn't terribly small but I think the room for a wheelchair made it feel better than other suites. My view was awful, even though I was on the 14th floor. All I could see was the wall of the other rooms windows. Furniture was very modern and updated. A few cracks in the ceiling, showing it's age a little bit but you can see they tried to keep up with it.

The bathrooms in the accessible suites are large and the shower is completely open with a curtain which lets water drip, splash and pool out onto the bathroom floor, pooling in front of the sink. Bad design, messy and dangerous - tile floors and standing water. The bath mat they gave me ended up being soaked by the end of a shower and the floor was very wet making getting ready or brushing teeth kind of annoying in standing water. The sink doesn't have any counter top space and no other shelving in the bathroom to store or place toiletries/make up or get ready stuff. Thankfully there is a buffet type cabinet outside the bathroom that housed the in-room mini-fridge. I ended up putting my makeup on there and using the bathroom door mirror to get ready in the morning. The mirror in the bathroom, above the sink was very filmy and hazy from under the glass. My co-worker also had the same issue. It has gotten a build up of mold/mildew under the glass, between the reflective layer and glass. I couldn't really use the mirror at all and was grossed out at the BLACK mold/mildew build up in the corner and bottom of the mirror frame. (reported this to management) Thankfully there was another mirror on the bathroom door. My shower curtain had stains on it and leftover shaving cream splotch with the hairs in it. Pretty gross. Reported this to management via their text messaging system while at the conference and they replaced it by the time I returned for the evening. The shower head was terrible. No pressure. I couldn't even rinse face wash off my face under the shower - no joke. They need curved shower curtain bars in the showers that are in the accessible rooms to add a bit of elbow room. There wasn't any space in there and I felt the curtain constantly clinging to me while showering - EW! If a standing person didn't have enough space, I don't know how a handicapped/sitting person had enough room at all to shower.

The blackout/privacy shades on a motor control on the wall was very nice. Toiletries they provided smelled amazing. MORE than enough outlets for charging in convenient locations on the lamps and front of furniture. I hate having to move or unplug lamps and other things at older hotels to just get one outlet to charge my phone.

I ate at the in-house restaurant for breakfast on day one. It was EXPENSIVE and it was pretty mediocre food (eggs, toast, bacon, potatoes for $23.54 (excluding tip).

Lyft/Uber/taxi/transportation picked you up, right out front which was nice and the doorman was always helpful.

I don't know if my hallway/wing just wasn't occupied or what but I didn't hear another single person while in my room my entire stay. Not even walking around in the hallway or anything. That was truly impressive. All in all, a pretty nice hotel other than expensive, mediocre food and the bathroom issues I stated above.

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