InterContinental Hotels Group Stay Forum - IC Chicago O'Hare

I have stayed twice in the Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare last year and have written reports of my stay and also taken a short video of my stay.

Finally, I have had the time to finish the report and upload everything on my homepage. Click here for the report (http://www.hotels-and-travel.de/hotelberichte/ihg/hotel_chi_icohare.htm).

To sum it up, I like the hotel, it's modern, though the hallways are a bit dark. The bathroom is modern, but I would have prefered to have a hand shower in addition to the rainforest shower and the sink was nice but not very practical. The interior design of bedroom and living room was nice, but like in the hallways a lot of dark colors were used and I would have prefered sometimes a bit more vidid colors. But otherwise the upgrade were not bad and the suites really nice and big and a nice relaxing palce for the evening.

During both stays, the lounge were not used as lounge but used as restaurant istead.

Staff was friendly and the rates not bad at all.

I know I am bringing this thread up from the archives, but I wanted to thank FLYGVA for the great review. I have been looking at the IC ORD as an option when I stopover in Chicago on a trip to SEA. Looks fantastic!

How many airport IC's are there. I can only think of this one right now, but i'm sure there must be a handful of others which I'm not thinking of.

I have stayed at this IC a few times I always get an upgrade love the new design and hope all new IC are like this. Hopefully the club lounge will open soon when the economy improves. In the mean time they still give us free breakfasts.^

I have stayed at this IC a few times I always get an upgrade love the new design and hope all new IC are like this. Hopefully the club lounge will open soon when the economy improves. In the mean time they still give us free breakfasts.^

I stayed in the Chicago O'Hare IC multiple times over the last several years, and also enjoyed the upgrades and the lovely artwork. (I did have a problem with the "artistic" and impractical bathrooms though. What female business traveler doesn't want counter space??) Anyway, as a whole I was pleased with the hotel but every time I asked I was told the club lounge was "going to open soon." I decided not to hold my breath. IMHO, I don't think it has anything to do with the economy. I think it has everything to do with the other restaurants right outside the front door of the hotel. Until they work something out with them the hotel restaurant probably won't be built and the club space will continue to be used as a restaurant.

I actually tried the newly done Crowne Plaza next door and gotta say it rivals most of the IC I've been to. It's beautiful and the service was amazing. Definitely worth a try.

For discussions about this property and the ones close by, there is a mastr thread in the main forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/intercontinental-hotels-priority-club-inter-continental-ambassador/772534-ic-chicago-ohare-master-thread-merged.html

I have copied / moved post into this thread, please follow the discussion in the above mentioned thread.

Thank You

FLYGVA
co-moderator IHG Forum

I got the hotel shuttle to the hotel - the bus was very luxurious compared to other hotel buses and the driver was super friendly. It was a 10 min ride to the hotel and was very painless.

Overall Impression - A bit like a posh Ikea hotel......! I had heard great things about this hotel but although the room was very large, it lacked any sort of personality. A real airport hotel. I must admit I was just a little disappointed after all the great reviews. Nothing I could say was bad at all just not what I expected from an Intercontinental. I was upgraded to a King bed Junior Suite which was very nice but the view was awful - just a view of the air conditioning ducts and a roof. The bathroom was outstanding and had the biggest shower I have ever seen. The rain shower was great but I would like to see better hairdryers - the one in the room looked and sounded good but I may as well have just stuck my head out the window as I think it would have been quicker to dry my hair that way!

The toiletries were Aguaria toiletries - I like the smell but they do not seem as luxurious as the Elemis ones I have had elsewhere. The soap was very nice and I don't normally like soap.

I could hear a bit of airport noise but nothing too bad.

Fresco 21

I ate at the new restaurant in the hotel and I sat having a couple of glasses of wine prior to dinning. The atmosphere was fine - typical hotel bar - and they had a good selection of wines. The menu looked tasty - it was a Tapas style menu. I ordered the house side salad and the greek meatballs with flatbread and tzatziki. Both were delicious and enough for me, despite the waitress try to encourage me to eat more! However their cutlery left a lot to be desired - the fork was 'top heavy' and looked like something a baby would use. It was so unevenly heavy that it kept falling off my pate and was very irritating! The food is good and the staff are friendly so I would recommend this place if you don't want to to leave the hotel!

I was given free breakfast with my rate and this was in the Fresco 21 restaurant - finishing at 1030. My chit was for the continental breakfast and it also included the tax and gratuity - sometimes free breakfasts are not totally free!! I had some fruit and a yogurt plus a lovely glass of orange juice. If you wanted to pay for hot stuff there was about 6 different items available.

Overall this was a nice hotel with very friendly staff.

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