A room with an ugly view
OK let's start with the bad things of my experience in this downtown hotel in Seattle. I 'm giving it a bad review because they gave us the worst room in the hotel. Our room overlooked into an alley, a filthy and scary looking side street in the back of the hotel. Right in front of our windows, no more than 8 yards away, we had the other side of the alley which was a parking building in horrible condition, neither the walls nor the windows of the parking building were painted. So our view was awful. The alley remained in the dark most of the day but at nights it became a scary place to look at so we actually left the curtains closed mots of the time.
So for us it was a GREAT dissappointment to have this kind of room. I'm certain that at least 3 or 4 rooms of each floor have this kind of room. The sad thing is that the room had a standard price, no special reducton applied. So we paid full price for an ugly view. Therefore my bad grading of this hotel.
We complained to no avail.
I'm really dissapointed that being a member of the Marriot Rewards card they give me this kind of room. So I wonder what they'll give to the non-members?
The cleaning team was extremely noisy, all speaking and/or screaming in the foreign languages, so that was very annoying too. We heard a heated argument one day and it was them again so we called reception.
The decoration of some rooms is bad, they put awful ceramic jars or pots, of doubtless origin which don't match the otherwise contemporary look of the hotel. The material of the main couch of the room was a weird kind of plastic or pleather, which made it very unconfortable.
The location, I must say, is great. It is near everything and within a walking distance of a lot of interesting places in the city.
The valet parking team were friendly, not the reception people, they were OK, just OK, not specially willing to help.
Both the lobby, the business center, the fitness center are good, very mjuch in the Marriot Courtyard style. 
I hope this is just an exception, I still recommend them as a chain but I cannot recommend this hotel in particular at all.