Ryk Spoor

Review of The Desmond Hotel and Conferen...

The people running the hotel were all friendly and...

The people running the hotel were all friendly and helpful -- service was fine -- but the hotel is filled with a pervasive smell of mildew/mold, from the lobby into all the rooms. The beds were also *quite* hard -- I like a firm mattress, but there are limits. The photographs make it look better than it is; the Desmond used to be THE place in this area, when I was young, but it has the feel of a hotel that's stayed in that past and never really moved, slowly fading.