A deal if you get it at a steal.
I am still thinking and not sure of the exact reason why but this hotel forced me into signing up on tripadvisor to write a review. Well usually i am the kind of guy who uses tripadvisor to just browse through the hotel reviews of the place that i want/plan to visit and base my decisions slightly on what i read on them.
The hotel is at a great location, not too close to the business district but again not too far. I was here as part of a corporate company team visiting GDC and i could see a lot of other rooms were occupied by fellow game developers. Liked the styling of the hotel. Rooms have been given names of wineries, Maple winery i think, was the one that i stayed in for 5 days. Rooms do show a sign of age, specially the bathrooms. The room that we were in on the 6th floor faced the road unfortunately and there was some work going on right in front of the hotel. I am guessing it was because of this that there was truck dumping stuff or making a lot of noises right about 6'o clock in the morning. As it is, i was jet lagged and this just made my sleep schedule go crazy weird. The bathroom knobs for the hot and cold water could act a little crazy, but a little effort with them would get them running fine. The wifi experience was also flaky at times but serves the purpose most of the times.
The cleaning staff was great, we would be gone barely an hour and our rooms would be sparkling clean again. The front desk was mostly very receptive and the experience there was good. Unfortunately, i had to ask them to hold my baggage till 12 as we checked out of the rooms at around 9 in the morning for some breakfast and some shopping and we didnt want to go back up to the rooms again. When i came back for the baggage, the baggage tags were with my colleague who was parking the car and i was told to get them first. When i did get them, then i was asked to come and identify my bags. So i pretty much did not understand why i had to get the tags if they werent used for identification.
Well, more or less a pretty decent experience if you could make do with some of the quirks of this place.