Big hotel in Downtown Dallas
We arrived in Dallas early for a convention and where able to check into our room at 11.00 am. No wait at the reception whatsoever and the clerk informed me that they had us booked into an "Executive Suite" in the North Tower, 18th floor. My expectations where high! Well, the room was gigantic with a dining and sitting area when you first walk in and a totally separate bedroom adjacent. While clean, the furniture, carpet and decor looked like they where from the 70's. The bathroom however, was also very clean and looked like it had recently been updated. The bed was comfy. The A/C was a bit hard to control and went from hot to cold, back to hot, etc. I think it was due to the occupancy sensor and it's inability to distinguish when nobody was in the room versus people in the room sleeping. Being the hotel is so large, I was surprised that we never had to wait for the elevator. The choice of restaurants for such a big hotel was limited, but a mall with a food court and ice skating rink was accessible via a short walk across the street or via an enclosed sky walk. The street car station is across the street also, and we where told that the West End with lots of shops and restaurants was a 15 minute ride. Luckily our rate included Internet and free parking as both are very very expensive here. The Internet went down several times but a call to their technical help desk was able to resolve the issue in a few minutes. All in all we had a good time, met up with a lot of friends attending the convention and our seats stayed in place for the flight home :)