Memorial Day weekend may have been a one-off, but...
We stayed here on the Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend. This is an awesome hotel--beautifully decorated rooms, very clean, extremely comfortable, incredibly well located to the Capitol and UT-Austin. A great Doubletree overall, and I'm a big Doubletree fan. Unfortunately, on the previous night, the hotel had been slammed by large contingents of track and field athletes competing at UT and the place was slightly in shambles. Then, between 2 and 4 am, there was a non-stop party either on our floor, the floor above or the street below. Finally, breakfast on Monday morning in the restaurant was a bit of a disaster. This is not a free breakfast, you see, but a $13 buffet. At 10 am, with an hour to go, the food was gone and every single table was dirty. And how can I describe the staff-- Young? Untrained? Indifferent? Slow-moving? Not until someone senior apparently came in from a day off did things improve. But still, what should have been a 20-minute breakfast turned into a one-hour debacle. Not a great experience for us, even if it was a one-off.