Overall, I have to agree with many other reviewers and say that this hotel is a good value given its low prices. A few situational things annoyed me--like being on the first floor directly next to the lobby, the workout room, the pool, the parking lot, and the elevators. It was terribly noisy. The breakfast was good, the internet was super fast and easy to use, and the staff, for the most part, were helpful.
I should mention something odd that happened during my stay, however. I rented my noisy room for 4 nights, and during my first night there, I dropped a piece of my chinese food dinner on my clean (I hope) white sheet. After cursing myself for being so clumsy, I decided that--even though the stain was barely noticeable--I would ask for my sheets to be washed and changed. I'm all for saving the environment; I resolved not to make a mess anymore and to stick with my newly washed sheets for the remainder of my stay. The next day when I got in, I found that they had changed my sheets, as I requested. At least, that's what it looked like. To my surprise, they had merely FLIPPED my sheet and remade the bed. The stain--barely noticeable--was still there, but on the other side of my bed! The wheels started to turn--did they EVER change their sheets?--but I talked myself down and decided to try again for new sheets the next day. I requested new bedding again (it's not like I had harmed the environment the first time around) and came back to the room to find the bed freshly made again. With the same sheets! The stain was still there, as were my old sheets. So... one can't help but be a little paranoid. I hope the management knows this kind of thing is happening. It strikes me as odd--isn't it just as easy to put fresh sheets on a bed than it is to strip it down and merely flip the sheet around?
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