Fair as long as you keep out of your room
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 02/27/08
Some nice things about the resort (call it a Hotel), but some issues.
The room I was in was almost a quarter mile from the lobby. Signs were not horribly clear and if there were buses they were not apparent.
In terms of the room I was in, well the room smelled, the bed creaked. It looked like the rug and paint had not had attention for a long time. Not dirty, but just old feeling. Think Motel 6 or Howard Johnson.
We were there for a business conference and one of the things I looked for on the web page was whether they had internet service.
I specifically looked at the web page to check prices for internet. Not obvious and what they listed for the web page was.
"Guest Services
* Wi-Fi Internet access in lobby and convention center common areas
Sounds like it was free, it’s not, I looked for a price, it was not at least on the page I quoted above.
They did list:
Nominal charge for Internet for the guest rooms
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Ah but what is NOMINAL. The web page fails to mention that Internet is $10.00 per day. To make it even more fun, if you buy wireless access in the convention center it doesn't work in the rooms.
AND your wireless access does not transfer over to the wired
internet. In plain english you'd have to spend more money and buy Internet twice, once for wireless once for wired.
If they'd charged $2.00 a day I'd have bit. $10.00 per day is unacceptable for what's being billed as business friendly.
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This place is a throwback. Food was good, but the rest of it was just very very old and tired. Good pools, but the convention area and rooms made me want to get out my bell bottoms.
But on the bright side, I was pretty aerobically fit by the time I walked a quarter mile to my room and back 5 times per day.
Summary:
Hilton Prices
Howard Johnson feel, with a great outdoors.
So if you go stay out of your room and enjoy the grounds, they were good. The rooms were disappointing. For a business traveler, watch it. The internet charges are just plain unreasonable for a business traveler in the states