Daniel Staiger

Review of The Westin William Penn Hotel

The overall experience is that it is a decent hote...

The overall experience is that it is a decent hotel. Location is perfect and the lobby as well as the ball rooms are pretty. Two negative points I have to give for the dust that is at the places you do not see immediately (the rest is clean) and especially for the connectivity. There is no Ethernet port and WiFi is subject to 10 or 15$ extra per day and device. If you want to have fat internet on four devices this means an extra 60$ per day. I wanted to connect my vpn box and therefore I need Ethernet. I bought a repeater in order to use it as a WiFi Adapter but could make it work. After half an hour with the IT service I found out that the hotel blocks this kind of device. Also the Business Center, consisting of one pc and printer which you may use 15 min free of charge but have to enter all your CC details, including secure code before you use it. The logout process is not so clear and extremely slow.
The breakfast ist not the cheapest (if you do not pre-book it 25$) but it is worth it and you should stay at least for 30 min to really benefit.
Another positiv aspect that irritates me in most hotels are the elevators. In total there are 12 of them and they are pretty fast, so no long waiting time.
All in all I can recommend this hotel if you do not depend on the WiFi.