booked 3 nights left after the first.
After reading a number of fantastic reviews about this budget glory, I was sure that we were going to get along just fine. I was wrong.
In college, I lived in the dorms and, At the time, it seemed like glamorous fun to share a 150 square foot room with another person, and share bathrooms down the hall with everyone on my floor. In retrospect? It sucked. To compare, this is even worse.
The Bed: at 5'6 I reach the end of the mattress when I lie down. This means that my feet are practically in the shelves at the end of the bed. Also, the matress thickness is about that of a cot. Not comfortable. I suppose they try to balance this by having feather pillows and high threadcount sheets but it just seems a pittance.
The noises: You can hear everything. Your next door neighbors telephone conversations, music, and tv. You can even hear sounds from the bathrooms all the way down the hall (I was about 14 doors down and could hear flushing).
The light: There are two lights in this small abode, one above with a yellow wash/low wattage, and one over the bed. Turning both on together did not make it bright enough to do my makeup in the room and the yellowness of the lights made it feel like I was in some low budget horror movie.
Little whines: I couldn't get the internet on my ipad to work, it required flash and java which ipads don't have. WTG Jane. My key was touch and go, if you held it just the right way and twisted left it worked. They require that you put your key in the wall to get elecrticity to work. This means when gone I can't charge cameras, laptops or phones. There is one window which directly faces another window. It's chest high which means that I kept it closed 100% of the time. For a room that small, the window would have been nice. The one time I went into the bathroom the floor was sopping wet, the counters were sopping wet, and the seat was up. Just gross.
I checked in at 2pm and by 7pm I had decided that this room was more like a jail cell than a hotel room. For someone who does not get clostrophobic, I started to feel antsy and uncomfortable in the room. While in pictures the wood siding and red decor looked cute and quaint, in person it just felt heavy and made the room seem smaller than it was. 7:30pm hit and I had booked myself another room for the next two days confirming that the extra 50.00 a night I'm spending at Hotel Metro is more than worth it. And I get my own bathroom there.
I wish I could have said more positive things about this hotel, but truth be told had it not been a holiday weekend and ALL the hotels were booked, I would have checked in and checked right out again.