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Old Apr 28, 2016 | 8:32 pm
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Originally Posted by MrRuffles
There was a small seating area (hence the Junior Suite designation) with a padded chair and a small couch that proved difficult to get comfortable on. There was also a small round table that was perfect for holding a vase of flowers but not much else.
Originally Posted by SkiAdcock
Thanks for the detailed trip report. Sounds like you got one of the newly renovated rooms. I've stayed at this property 15 years running & I'm not certain I'm going to like them. When I'm there for a trade show I'm there for 8 days & having to partially live out of a suitcase because there are no closed drawers is not appealing.

Same w/ the cute sofa/table. When I emailed the property a couple of months ago I was told that half the rooms post-renovation have desks & half don't. I'll request one w/ a proper desk, although that won't help the shelving issue or badly positioned mirrors & lighting.
I had called up Marriott to ask for a request for a room with a desk to be added to my reservation, but I have no way of verifying if it actually made it. When I checked in, they mentioned they'd upgraded me to something or other, and I asked if the room had a desk, and they said it didn't have a desk but did have a sofa with a table and that the table should be the right height for working with a laptop and they verified that there were outlets there, so I agreed to stay with that room. The curved 90-degree sofa seemed like it would only seat 2 comfortably, 3 tightly. The table was fine enough for both my laptop and my universal power supply (with phone charger) and phone. The outlet was above one end of the sofa, so since I was by myself, it was no problem to use it, but if the sofa was used for conferencing as it seemingly might designed, then access to the outlets might be problematic. (Though, of course, a conventional room with a desk would have no place for conferencing at all, outlets in the way or not.)

I have no idea what category of room i actually got, but it didn't seem like any kind of suite at all. (In fact, it wasn't clear me what was an upgrade about it, but then I never saw any other rooms at the hotel.)

I was only there for 2.5 days (3 nights), and I'm used to living out of a suitcase (other than using hangers) for even 3 or 4 night stays, so I don't remember whether there was shelving or drawers or what. I did not notice any problem, though, with a mirror behind hangers.

The lounge was fine, though like everywhere else in Netherlands (including where I had to pay for a breakfast buffet at other hotels) the scrambled eggs at breakfast looked dried out and excessively uniform and didn't resemble real eggs to me, so I just stuck to the hardboiled ones. and orange juice tasted "cooked" to me. (Of course, I've run into the same "lackluster" breakfast issues at some USA Marriott lounges too, though at USA lounges they don't tend to always have hardboiled eggs as an alternate.)
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