Holiday Inn Express Toronto - North York
What is your Priority Club status?
Platinum.
Were you (or for multi-stayers are you generally) happy with the hotel/stay?
Fine, nothing special.
Which room did you book and which upgrade did you receive?
King Bed - No upgrade (despite website showing lot of available next category rooms).
How are the rooms?
Decent room size, 9M deep x 3.5M wide.Rooms have been updated to HIX Canada standards. Was severely outdated on a prior visit.
How is the exec. lounge?
N/A
What was good and what was bad?
Quiet hotel, comfortable bed. 15-minute bus to Finch West station, then a 40-minute TTC subway to downtown Toronto. No recognition for Platinum members (aside from the standard "thank you for your loyalty.") Only 1 of 2 elevators working during stay. Painfully slow elevator, and often squished in corner, riding with maintenance/housekeeping carts. Many channels not in HD. Nothing but alt-left options (CNN, CBC, CTV) for news. Rough Jane & Finch area, you do not want to be walking alone at night here.
Value for $ or Priority Club Points? Would you return?
Rates of $99 - $249+, fine on the low end for a suburban HIX, and far better than downtown Toronto. Point requirement recently increased from 15K to 20K.