Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Isn't this the airport hotel that has a sort of basement tunnel entrance from a windowless hallway to the check in area, IIRC with some hotel office or health club to the left just before you enter the "hotel" this way? I then remember fairly long lines to check in and as an elite, being sent up to the lounge on something like the tenth floor to do this (just as the lounge receptionist stepped away from the counter). Or could I be confusing the basement entry (but not my experience with the lines, etc.) with the Hilton at ORD?
Not quite, it is a bridge over the road and it is not windowless. If you have a club room, I do think you can check in directly on the club floor, but I have never done this since the main checkin has never had a line when I have been there (I think 4 times in the last year or two).
I really like this hotel, even with the slightly-less-convenient-than-before bridge access.