Why is this a four star hotel?
We booked this hotel almost last minute for a wedding weekend via Hotwire. We stayed July 10 and 11. All warnings were that the room was small. Little did we know that the bathroom would be painfully tiny requiring acrobatics to shut the door without humping the toilet. I was going to take pictures but couldn't get my elbows up high enough to bring the view finder to my eyeball. Seriously, my wife is petite and SHE had to lube up before being able to shut the door. AND to top it off the toilet seat was about 10 inches long, so if you're a tall person or needing to keep your junk from touching the underside of the lid, you really gotta pay attention. With this small bathroom in mind comes a need for ventilation, of which there is none in the stall. Let's just let all that vent into the sleeping chamber...nice. So taking a shower, again some acrobatics are needed if you don't want your fresh clean body rubbing all over the sink, toilet, door and walls. IF, you're in any fashion "chubby" or "gravitationaly challenged" you're better off sleeping in the lobby and showering off in a nearby fountain or the Common. Back to that tub. Hope you like standing in puddles, because drainage was stuck in slow motion. On the bright side, the AC worked like a champ and the bed was decent. Assuming you don't mind going back to "college" and squeezing into a full sized bed with your honey! Hey, another area for improvement, let's put some outlets somewhere useful...or at least SOMEWHERE! I had to pull out my voltmeter to find one and then pull the tv cabinet away from the wall to be able to insert my plug! DARKNESS, one thing I'm always interested in. Our blinds covered the windows nicely except the vertical shade/window interface. There was a super bright slit sneaking in early morning. Luckily it landed right on my shut eyes. What about SERVICE? We kept the privacy card on the door, stay out, you might get a cramp trying to clean! Also, shut the doors quietly people, sound travels! Oh and in getting helpful info from the folks behind the desk, better off asking folks on the street. We were recommended to visit an excellent restaurant...that had closed several months ago. Hey, thanks for keeping current. Overall, I was extremely disappointed. Sure it's historically relevant, but so is Spectacle Island, you don't see me wanting to go digging for buried treasure there do you?