I travel enough to know what to expect. My stay at this hotel was mixed and while most employees were helpful there were a couple that should probably not be customer facing. I will start by saying my first complaint may be partly my issue. We booked a weeklong stay through JetBlue Paisley for 209 a night. I then decided after to come in a day early and booked directly through the hotel. When I called I mentioned my week booking and asked if the rate for one night added would be the same and was told it would be. My part? I received the confirmation but did not scroll to the bottom where the rate showed to be over 400 for one night. I assumed what I was told would be the rate. Shame on me. When we arrived and was told the rate I explained the situation and was told that they don’t know what we pay 3rd part bookers and that it was impossible no matter what that I was paying 209 a night even with third party. They would not back down form the high rate and arriving at 11PM I was not feeling like arguing. I was told to speak to the manager which I did and was told he’d bring it to the general manager. Almost a week later I still have not heard back. That’s the first part. As we got to the room the card would not open the door so we went back to desk and they re-programmed it. Went back up and still could not get in. Mention of possible broken lock was mentioned so I asked if we could just get another room and was told they were sold out. Building engineer was called and he determined that room was already occupied. Back to the desk again and they were able to magically come up with another room. Off to a good start and it did not get much better after that. At least one elevator of two was down almost the whole time and one morning both were down. The fire alarm went off at 7AM one morning and I assume it was related to broken elevators as there were signs saying to use stairs which were according to signs on second floor alarmed summoning the fire department and of course setting of alarm. A little foresight on hotels part to maybe disable alarm during the elevator outage may have prevented people walking through an alarmed door that they were told to use. We were also told there would be a 100 dollar hold for incidentals such as parking etc. I was fine with that and we exceeded that by about Thursday by about 20 dollars. They then put a 278 dollar hold on my card for a day or two for the remainder. It was only 2 days!!! I am still waiting for them to release that and for an answer as to why such a high hold. I was told the GM would call me and have left messages and still have not heard back almost a week later. The room itself while billed as a suite was small though that was not an issue as we don’t spend much time in there. It was clean and maid service was good. Hope if you stay here it goes better for you than for us. So much for a relaxing vacation.
We had a great experience at this hotel. There were 4 of us and we stayed one night. We went to see the Stones at Gillette Stadium May 30th. The hotel is really close to 495 and close enough to the stadium. I can't give you a time in minutes to get to Gillette bc the traffic on 495 is horrendous and I think it's like that all the time, not just with a big event. That aside, we got a king suite with a pullout couch. I initially had booked a room with 2 doubles but called the hotel the night before to see if I could get a bigger room. They were completely sold out but I asked about cancelations. I was told I could try calling back by noon the next day and maybe I would get lucky. The woman I spoke with then said she was going to be working anyway when we were supposed to check in, and said she would keep us in mind should a cancelation come in. When we got to the hotel, she had moved us to the larger room and didn't charge us bc of the way the situation worked out. It was awesome of her. All of the front desk people were excellent. The room was very clean, there was a small full size fridge, plenty of room for 4, clean bathroom, comfy king bed. Only negative is the pullout ******. It was maybe a full or queen but the mattress was beat and you could feel the springs/frame through it and the room did have a bit of air freshener type smell but not awful. The breakfast was the usual buffet and was decent. They tended to it regularly (and it was really busy with all the concert-goers staying there.) And the coffee was actually good! I would definitely stay here again. A big thank you to the staff that helped us.