Reconsider staying there!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 8/22/10
My organization recomended this hotel (although no one in my office had stayed in it) for a training I was taking across the street at the Cadillac Place. Due to an accident on the highway we arrived around 11pm so we decided we would check it out, stay there for that night and if it was too bad, we would look for another place the next day. The cleanliness of the room was better than expected but not upscale or great. But is was tolerable. However, our air did not work and it was 80 degrees in the room at night. There were no glasses in the room, no vending or ice machines in the whole building and they never valet parked our car even though they charged us for it at $14 per night. The smoke detector had toilet paper shoved in it, not sure why. The area is a very bad! There is nothing to do or places to eat as everything closes at 6pm and let me tell you, there is a reason for that!!! We seen a homless person sleeping on the hotels steps and you really can not walk around anywhere with out being harrassed. The people at the hotel were friendly but not at all helpful! There was one exception, the evening valet, Peter. He was very helpful! He was not there when we checked in and no one told him our car was supposed to be parked. He came to bat for us over the charges on the parking, it didnt do any good, but he tried! He went out of his way to help everyone as they arrived at the hotel, including getting us ice for our room which I am sure was not in his job description! Me and several other training attendees who stayed there did in fact hear gun shots a few blocks down from the hotel on the last night of our stay. I really would not recomend staying there, but if you have to, bring a couple dollars tip to componsate Peter he will probably be the ony one who will assist you.