Not bad, but there are better hotels in Toronto
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 3/25/05
The staff seemed to me to be pleasant and helpful. I had specifically booked a room in the hotel's south tower to take better advantage of an $25/night upgrade to a lake view and received a low-floor room in the north tower instead. The room itself was rather underwhelming, surely clean but with an odd configuration that wasn't ergonomic at all. Plus, my room was tucked into a corner and only accessible by a short hallway maze. Challenging for sure to negotiate your way around the housekeeping carts, even more so with luggage when they're insisting on servicing the room for the day before you've checked out. The bathroom was nice enough, but everywhere there was something to pay for... coffee, bottled water and $15 sundry kit. I guess I shouldn't complain too much... I caught a deeply discounted rate. If I had paid the per-night price typically charged, it wouldn't have been much of a value.
The physical location of the hotel itself is handy if you're looking to immerse yourself in Harbourfront or the Toronto Islands, or attend an event at Air Canada Centre... not so much for the rest of the city. The streetcars from Union Station stop underground across the street; otherwise, it's at least a ten-minute walk through a grungy underpass beneath the Gardiner Expressway to Union. I found pedestrian access to the hotel to be rather inconvienient... the west portion of the lobby handiest to the north tower is directly accessible, but only via several sets of stairs and doors that aren't easily manageable with luggage. When those doors are locked at about 6pm, one must walk up a steeply inclined driveway which is, of course, meant for cars and doesn't offer much in the way of a sidewalk.
Overall, not a bad place to stay... but when I return to Toronto, I'll stay elsewhere.