A hotel but NOT a boutique hotel
People must like this hotel for the freebies -- breakfast, cocktail hour. Freebies aside, it is an ordinary large downtown hotel, decorated like a chain hotel. There is no sense of style or quirkiness or small size that I associate with a real boutique hotel or boutique hotel chain. The old historic building was gutted, so there is no sense of history or charm. The lobby is a hodge podge of furnishings and the dining/cocktail area on the subdivided floor above is low-ceilinged and grey color, making it downright uncomfortable. We arrived late and, for convenience, went to the hotel restaurant (which is basically their room-service kitchen). It served up a carelessly prepared flavorless Caesar salad and a Cobb salad with oversalted, grey chicken. Yech!