Fantastic Stay!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 2/26/11
My wife and I decided to spend a night downtown away from the kids for Valentine’s Day. Our actual date of stay was Saturday, Feb 14th. We chose the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel as it’s conveniently located in the City Centre Mall (nice to walk around and shop without going in the cold outside) and because the service is usually very good. We arrived at the hotel around 3 pm. The hotel was doing some renovations at the front entrance which was fine, knowing the hotel we parked the car ourselves in the parkade and made our way to the front desk. The front desk agent was very friendly and professional. Everything about our reservation was in order and she answered my questions knowledgeably. We made our way to the room, we reserved a 1 bedroom suite (a bedroom with a separate living room) and the room was HUGE! It was very clean with nice amenities. We wished we had one of the rooms that faced inside the mall but we got one that faced outside with a view of downtown. Since we liked the size of the room we chose not to switch. After spending some time walking around the mall and trying our luck at the casino a block away, we decided to go for dinner in the hotel’s restaurant, Cocoa’s. We were promptly greeted by the hostess and chose to get a booth. Our hostess warned us that the kitchen was busy (being Valentine’s weekend) and we were fine with that. The restaurant is on the 3rd floor and you can walk out to the mall as well but the ambience where we were sitting was very nice, you couldn’t really hear the people going to the movie theatres. Our server was also very friendly and professional. The restaurant had a special Valentine’s Day menu, four courses I believe with options for all but we chose to order a-la-carte. Being the land of Alberta Beef we both had steak dinners, my wife had a strip loin and I had a peppercorn sirloin (the menu said it won a gold medal at some competition and I can see why!) both were prepared as we asked. The food was very tasty with good presentation. We then spilt a bread pudding (yummy) and in total we were there almost 2 hours but time really flew by. My wife and I don’t often get the opportunity to spend that kind of time on dinner so we took advantage of it. After dinner we retired to our room and had a quiet night. One of the advantages of the 1 bedroom suites is the bedroom is furthest away from the door that enters the room and since you can close the door between the bedroom and living room you don’t hear the sound from the hallway during the night. In the morning the shower was good, it had one of those shower heads where you can choose different settings, and the water was hot and pressure good. We used the automated check-out on the TV (a real time saver) when we left. Overall it was a fantastic and romantic stay.