Way too pricey for what little amenities offered
In a nutshell, this is a $49.00 a night place but they charged us $118.00 a night. I could've stayed at a lush Doubletree or Mariott downtown for that price.
First off, I'm a light sleeper and this hotel is right across the street from a very loud and VERY active train system. I would shoot up out of bed at 4AM when trains would pass. I've stayed in hotels before with trains but this place seems to be built on a trampoline because the train literally shakes the whole hotel when it passes by. I missed out on alot of good REM sleep because of this.
Secondly, when we stayed there- there was only one wireless internet access point in the lobby. Being reliant on internet for my business travel, this was the absolute slowest, most horrible internet access I've ever encountered because everyone in the hotel is hived off of that one wireless router *IF* you're lucky enough to actually get a signal to your room and are fortunate enough to be placed within a distance to the lobby wireless router. They blamed ComCast (their ISP) but I've stayed in other hotels around this area which have comcast and they didn't have any problems. They offered up that I could use the lobby PC but the lobby PC is not the same as my laptop which has gigabytes of business information on it I need to access. The front desk said I could always connect via the "data port" in my room which is only a standard RJ-12 phone jack in the room and offered no option for any standard modern Category5 Ethernet access. If you rely heavily on Internet access for business or pleasure- do not stay here. Hopefully by the time they read this, they will have improved their internet access options.
Although the uptight staff at the front desk was as helpful as their "holier than thou" personalities would allow, they seemed to work at a snail's pace disregarding the growing line in the lobby and acted real snooty to callers inquiring about rooms and rates.
I booked this place online but if I talked to them over the phone and they talked to me like they did some other people I witnessed, I'd have booked another hotel altogether based on their phone support alone. The small banter complaining about customers they would exchange after each call with each other proved to me I wasn't going to be calling them anytime soon.
The housekeeping staff seemed to be under staffed and the front desk clerk balled one poor gal out right in front of us because the housekeeping didn't have a room cleaned and ready before official check-in time.
The ONLY redeeming factor to this hotel is that it has the Black Bear Diner right next door within walking distance and had top notch food and service. It seems to me that the desk staff at this hotel could take some customer service pointers from the restaurant next door.