IIRC, Lurker has confirmed there is no Plat upgrade benefit at aloft and Element.

Agree with comments that a box without cables is useless, and on cheapness of the closet curtain. Cheapness is a repeating theme in room design and execution, I would say.

I, too, use the TV bench as a luggage rack but am conscious of luggage wheels on upholstery. Stretched SD TV on a wide panel is just wrong, but aloft is not the only hotel who fails to keep the TV's channel memory updated for hi def channels.

Awfully loud HVAC in Portland and Lexington, three stays for me. This may kill aloft for me, frankly.