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Old Nov 12, 2021 | 11:47 am
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Originally Posted by Nizar
I know it's not really a favourite here, but have there been any recent stays at the Corinthia ?

What have the overall thoughts and impressions been on hard product and service etc ?

The spa seems amazing
I held off replying because I have not stayed here that recently, but as no one else has commented, I thought I'd put in a few thoughts about the rooms.

The lower room categories are (in order): deluxe, executive, and junior suite. They are all just regular rooms and the differentiator is by size.

The lowest room category that actually is suite-like is deluxe junior suite. This is what I booked last time and it had a separate room from the bedroom with a nice desk in it. Hard product was excellent. My problem was that all the deluxe junior suites face an interior courtyard and have no view or mobile reception. Sure, there was wifi, but getting or making network voice calls was impossible.

It's unfortunate because this latter problem can be easily fixed with inexpensive femto-basestations in the courtyard Maybe they have done so by now, but that level of technical knowledge seemed to be above the folks I mentioned it to back then.

They generously moved me at no additional charge to a regular suite, which was a bit quirky in shape due to the building design but overall quite lovely. There are few, if any, rooms with a great view here, but the suites at least overlook the street.

I didn't test the service levels much so can't comment on that.
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