Anyone have any experience staying in a "spectacular" room? maybe any recent experience or has anyone checked out the remodeled room? I believe it is 200sf
Anyone have any experience staying in a "spectacular" room? maybe any recent experience or has anyone checked out the remodeled room? I believe it is 200sf
Stayed at the W NY recently. I have stayed there a handful of times but this was the first time I was lied to by the front desk staff. I never check up to see if they are telling the truth about suites, I just accept it for what it is. However, this woman was surly and I had a feeling she was not being truthful. So I got to my tiny room which would have been fine had the hotel actually been sold out or the standard suites all gone. However when I called SPG I was told there were "plenty of rooms available." More than 25 I ask. She says "yes." I say how about standard suites for sale. She says 4.
I go down and ask to speak to the front of the house manager who was in a meeting. I ended up speaking with an HR person (I didn't seek her out, she found me), who was very nice and relyed my concerns to the other manager. He called me a few minutes later, and offered me a suite. I don't know if it was a standard suite or not. I have had bigger suites at this property, so it might have been a standard. Room was fine except for the no curtain/blinds in the bedroom on the glass door to the balcony! The door was right at the foot of the bed. It looked like there used to be something attached to the door, but had broken off and no one bothered to fix it. I realized this after midnight and since I only was staying one night I sucked up the 6AM sunlight wakeup call.
I probably won't choose to stay there again, but if the price is right or I have colleagues staying there, I would consider it.
Most rooms have queen sized beds and non-suite rooms will not be able to accommodate a roll away. Even some regular suites are quite small and will not be able to fit a roll away.
There is an oversized armless desk chair and a glass-top working desk. Due to size of regular rooms, there is no lounge chair, but there is an ottoman tucked under the luggage rack that you can pull close to the desk chair.
Hope that helps.
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Originally Posted by springres
hi broadwayboy,
specifically will it fit a rollaway if it has a queen sz bed? and does it have a table and chair?
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Originally Posted by El Boocho
Room was fine except for the no curtain/blinds in the bedroom on the glass door to the balcony! The door was right at the foot of the bed. It looked like there used to be something attached to the door, but had broken off and no one bothered to fix it. I realized this after midnight and since I only was staying one night I sucked up the 6AM sunlight wakeup call.
That happened to me this summer at the new Westin Reston (VA) and I can tell you, it was miserable. There should be NO excuse for any well run hotel to have exterior glass (window/door) that does not have light-blocking blinds or curtains. Like you, I was forced to get up around 5:40am on the day of a long international flight out of IAD. Not pretty. I hope you took the time to lodge a clear complaint about the lack of window treatment.
I am kind of worried now because when I called and requested a rollaway, they said they would accomodate a rollaway in a spectacular room which I will have along with a queen bed. I wonder if maybe it may be a corner room which might be larger.
Last edited by springres; Sep 30, 08 at 11:40 pm..
specifically will it fit a rollaway if it has a queen sz bed? and does it have a table and chair?
There may be some rooms that can accomodate a roll away, but other than suites I haven't seen one. Actually now that I think of it, I'm not sure the suite I had last time would have fit a rollaway, without having to crawl over it to leave the room. If it did fit, it would have been tight.
we just returned from a week long stay there. We got a corner room that had 3 windows and was not too small as I expected I am guessing because it was a corner room. The view was of other rooftoops nothing to write home about. on our 6th day, We saw a rat in our room. First I saw something go real fast on the carpet and than I saw it again and screamed and stood on top of the bed. My kid locked herself in the bathroom. I manuevered to get the phone while on the bed and called and they wanted to know what color was the rat? huh!! I said black and than they asked if we would like to be moved and I said yes unless you can catch the rat. So they bought over the new room keys and the guy who brought the room keys also saw the mouse while getting our bags. He was trying to get out of the room so fast with my bag but I told him I still had to pack and please wait so I packed really fast hoping I did not forget anything there. Fortunately, I only had 2 bags. I threw all the clothes from the hanger into my bag and I followed him while dragging my daughter out with me. When we arrived to our room, it was a suite with a patio. WOW. It was so pretty and large. Huge living room,bathroom with jacuzzi,The patio was very large. Unfortunately, we only stayed a day in the suite but it was nice.
