average large hotel
I stayed at this hotel for a couple of nights when I was in the area on business. Overall, it was a good place, but it is a high-volume hotel, so you are just another customer to them. Before I arrived, I received an email saying that because I was an elite Marriott member, I should go to the elite desk at check-in. But when I arrived, that desk was overwhelmed with customers, so I just went to the regular check-in desk. No big deal. Later, I noticed that the regular check-in desk had a line of people waiting to check in. Glad that didn't happen to me when I arrived. One morning, there was a long line for the airport shuttles, and I hoped that those people were not running late for their flight. The fitness room is OK, but seems too small for a hotel that size. When I checked it out one morning, there were no free cardio machines. Parking will cost, and so will internet. There are a couple of restaurants on the ground floor. My colleague and I ate at the sports bar and found the food to be pretty good.
My room was adequate. Unfortunately, on the last morning I was there, when I was trying to get ready to go to the airport, I was taking a shower when the smoke alarm went off, causing an ear-splitting alarm sound and strobe lights to go off. After five minutes of this, I called the front desk, and the first question they asked me was if I had taken a shower. Well, yes, that's what I usually do in the morning. In the hundreds of nights I've stayed in hotels, taking a shower has never caused a smoke alarm to go off, and I certainly didn't take a long shower that morning, but it sounds like this is normal for this hotel. They would not reset it without sending a maintenance person up to my room to verify that there was no fire (which I tried to tell them), so I had to deal with that while trying to pack and get ready to go to the airport. What a hassle. Some sort of apology would have been nice too.