Smoke and Mirrors Hotel
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 3/6/11
Do not be fooled by the advertisements and pictures of this place you'll find on the web. From the outside you might be enticed by their so called "posh" look. But once you finally get to your room, that is if you get to it, it is probably not what you are going to expect like the experience I had! My wife and I booked a two night stay here through Hotels.com because they advertised pretty well and the pictures didn't look too shaby at all. But we shure were fooled! When we arrived it turned out check in time wasn't till 3pm and they were understaffed apparently because the bell boy/girl was doing her job and tending their ridiculous bar! Anyways, when we got to our room it was literally not cleaned; the house keeping girl was (who looked like she was 16 years of age) still cleaning up our room! This made my wife and I real disappointed. I am usually against discrimination but for this review I have to say that when I go to a hotel I expect to see housekeeping "ladies" (between her late 30's/40's) with experience not housekeeping girls who are barely 18 years of age that do a half ass job!
But going back to the room situation, we went back down to the front desk to get a new room. Once we mentioned to the front desk dude that are room wasn't even ready he put on this phony look of shock, which he probably wouldn't of displayed if there wasn't a line waiting to check in! So he told us he was sorry and gave us a new room which was supposed to be an "upgrade" from his words, trying to make us feel better. Though yet again, disapointment was on its way. The only real "upgrade" that we got in the new room is that we didn't find housekeeping in it! It was pretty much the same room as the first with just a slightly larger bed and only one dirty towel left in it! We tried our hardest to make the most of what we got for our money but in the end we still got ripped off on our $120 stay for two nights.
So don't be fooled about this joke of a hotel. The only "Rumor" about this hotel that should be floating around is how bad it is! And it shure as hell aint no "Boutique"!