Lisa Bluerock

Review of The Henley Park Hotel & The Mo...

We stayed four nights at Morrison Clark. We weren...

We stayed four nights at Morrison Clark. We weren't told at time of booking that construction for expansion was going on. Workers started at 7am...no sleeping in for us! The first night we had a small room on 3rd floor overlooking "L" and 11th. Some street noise but several times at late night fire sirens of fire engine trucks would go off--turns out Fire Station is a block away. The worse thing was that an armoire that was way overbearing in the room. The room has no closet. The armoire stores small flat panel t.v. and refrigerator; also house a small full length closet and ironing board. If the door were opened to watch t.v., you had to close the doors to go to the restroom (no aisle space). The armoire doors were broken and difficult to open. The next morning we asked for a different room. When we returned to new room, it was the same set up...armoire that blocked walkway to bathroom when doors were opened. This room was a little more quiet (room 206) but you couldn't open window since there were no screens and the windows faced a outdoor hallway to other rooms thus anyone passing by could look directly into bedroom. The window faced the window looking into another room across hall--no privacy for them either!! There was a door that lead out to the outdoor hallway rooms and anyone that entered or exited that door could be heard by us. We were tired of the place, put since this was a second move, we didn't want to move into another cramped room. At $315.00 average/night you would think management would have given discount after we let them know of the problems. BTW, the refrigerator has so much beverages in snacks in it (all for a fee of course) you don't have room to put anything in there. I had to ask desk clerk to remove items. The exercise room and "business center" is super tiny; hope they include better facilities on the expansion. You would think that they would buy armoires that doors slide INTO the armoire--somebody wasn't thinking (we even thought is was a fire safety hazard).
We definitely would not stay there again at that price. A new Marriott opened down the street and even though we tend to like historical places to stay, this one is definitely off our list. Don't be fooled by the historical aspect of it.