Louie_LI
Aug 23, 12, 4:16 am
We stayed here in April 2012. Since there seems to be little information about it, here are our notes.
The valet was quick to help us on arrival, and the check-in was efficient. Our room was not ready, so they sent us up to the Executive lounge to wait. As soon as the room was ready, our bags arrived. The staff in the lounge were very friendly and spoke English well. We had booked a river view room and the view was great.
The gym is very good and run as a health club open to non-hotel guests. There is a small indoor pool and a larger outdoor one, where you can have drinks delivered if the outside bar isn’t open.
We booked the Executive room because it included internet access, lounge access and breakfast (in lounge or the buffet in the restaurant), and a great view. The internet and breakfast together would have cost more than the upgrade.
We had a small problem getting our car back from the valet (the Executive lounge staff has supposedly arranged it, but we had to ask three people and wait a long time).
Note: if you are headed to the airport to drop off a car at Hertz, the office is not in the airport, but in one of the approach roads. This is not clear on the Hertz site, which lists an address in the airport, and no one at the airport seemed to know where it was.
Executive lounge:
Evening food buffet
2 hot dishes (meatballs and grilled vegetables)
Cheese plate
3 mezzes
Olives
Pastries
Red, white and rosé wine
Drinks (self serve, from 6-8pm only, if I remember correctly; I’m not sure how late the food stays out ; soft drinks are available all day):
J&B whiskey
Gilbey’s gin
Vodka
Bacardi
Ballentine’s
Famous Grouse
Raki
Breakfast:
Cheese
Cold cuts
Scrambled eggs
Sausage
Borek
Pastries
Cereal
The buffet breakfast in the restaurant was pretty good.
The valet was quick to help us on arrival, and the check-in was efficient. Our room was not ready, so they sent us up to the Executive lounge to wait. As soon as the room was ready, our bags arrived. The staff in the lounge were very friendly and spoke English well. We had booked a river view room and the view was great.
The gym is very good and run as a health club open to non-hotel guests. There is a small indoor pool and a larger outdoor one, where you can have drinks delivered if the outside bar isn’t open.
We booked the Executive room because it included internet access, lounge access and breakfast (in lounge or the buffet in the restaurant), and a great view. The internet and breakfast together would have cost more than the upgrade.
We had a small problem getting our car back from the valet (the Executive lounge staff has supposedly arranged it, but we had to ask three people and wait a long time).
Note: if you are headed to the airport to drop off a car at Hertz, the office is not in the airport, but in one of the approach roads. This is not clear on the Hertz site, which lists an address in the airport, and no one at the airport seemed to know where it was.
Executive lounge:
Evening food buffet
2 hot dishes (meatballs and grilled vegetables)
Cheese plate
3 mezzes
Olives
Pastries
Red, white and rosé wine
Drinks (self serve, from 6-8pm only, if I remember correctly; I’m not sure how late the food stays out ; soft drinks are available all day):
J&B whiskey
Gilbey’s gin
Vodka
Bacardi
Ballentine’s
Famous Grouse
Raki
Breakfast:
Cheese
Cold cuts
Scrambled eggs
Sausage
Borek
Pastries
Cereal
The buffet breakfast in the restaurant was pretty good.