The new minimalism!! get use to it...
I have stayed here more than a dozen times...and I was surprised that the Ritz wasn't the same place ..Marriot chain owns the Ritz Carlton chain and due to profit is wrecking this hotel ...It's not the spectacular hotel that I have come to expect..
First I was shocked to find the lovely hotel pool had been filled in...No hot tub...No four star hotel restaurant! Just an unrated "neighborhood food culture" restaurant (their own words)..I stay on the club level and it's very nice and the people there are wonderful,,,The doormen at the hotel are incredible...but great help can't make up for poor leadership of this hotel..The new corporate thought must be" that less is more" a philosophy that is stripping literally the gilding off the the Ritz !..
Corporate thought must be that the average consumer won't be able to tell the difference.This isn't a five star hotel anymore...it doesn't have the amenities.....less is more is an oxymoron.....