Lots of nice touches
Some nice touches in this hotel:
1) Parking in a secure garage (accessible by room key) is included in the rate.
2) Complementary cupcakes, apples and coffee in the lobby.
3) Keurig coffeemaker, bottled water, refrigerator and microwave in the room.
4) Excellent security. Access to hotel floors requires room key to be inserted in a card reader in the elevator. (The neighborhood is not at all sketchy, but this and the secure garage were still nice.)
5) Thick bath towels!
We also liked the location: close to UW, The Ave (wide variety of economical food choices), and University Village (upscale shopping and dining). Don't miss Portage Bay Cafe and the University District Farmers Market. We had a car, so we drove to downtown Seattle and found garage parking for $7 for the (weekend) day....but we loved staying in an area that was not as busy as downtown.
I would have given this hotel five stars, but there were two things we didn't like:
1) The sheets on the beds are too short. .
2) Other than the treadmill, the cardio machines in the exercise room are not in good shape.