Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

Since you mention an elderly mother and wanting to use the swimming pool, there are a couple things about HR TST you should know:

The outdoor pool (on a deck at about the tenth floor) is shared with an apartment/condo building that seems to take some of the hotel's building. They also have some sort of recreation club facilities not available to hotel guests. The hotel changing rooms are separate and require walking around the building to access, on the far side of the deck with the pool and spa. I suspect that the recreation club changing facilities are much nicer.

When I looked, the pool seemed to be filled with families, including lots of kids, from the recreation club.

Perhaps more importantly for your mother, the only way to access the pool is through a long steep narrow staircase (it has the ambience of a not very new or nice fire escape stairwell).
Hotel elevators do not stop on the pool deck floor.

ADDED: My room (good view and high floor but no upgrade as a Globalist staying three nights) had a bit of a musty smell at times and seemed very humid. Clothing got damp and would not dry.