Originally Posted by
nicolas75
I stayed only once at a Indigo Hotel, which was Dallas Indigo.
I felt exactly the same.
The check-in in the evening was horrible (but check-out was nice)
The room (no upgrade despite rooms available) was very small, quite noisy (the door is too thin) and I hated the design (Ikea kindergarten)
The "view" was the wall 4 meters from the window
There was a terrible smell of paint in the room and the corridor (when I asked to change, the answer was: no!)
Yes, Indigo is just Holiday Inn with a (vulgar) lipstick
Actually, that Indigo was one of the earlier Hiltons with a Holiday Inn paintjob, then converted to an Indigo paintjob.
I stayed on the top floor center suite when it was in its last days of Holiday Inn-hood. Boy, was that place overdue for renovation. Great view if you had a room that didn't face internally, but I can see why you didn't like it. For such a huge hotel, they should have been able to move you to a non-fuming room. It's way too big to have a legit "botique" feel.