Very nice stay with kids

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Room 3201 , Junior Suite
February 25, 2017 by

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Room 3201

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I had booked two rooms for our two last nights in Texas several months ago and applied DSU to both. In this property DSU means "Junior Suite", which is kind of funny, as it is normal suite, i.e. bedroom and livingroom plus BIG bathroom and balcony. We checked in around 3 pm, and both rooms were ready. The guy checking us in explained the Diamond benefits at the property ($60 for breakfast per room in Firewheel or McDade's, Club Lounge not open so 2500 points etc.), and we discussed ice hockey for a good while (there were no other people checking in at the moment, even though property was packed with various corporate events).

 

 

Room

Junior Suite has a big livingroom and smaller bedroom. The livingroom has a sofa and a dinner table for four as well as access to a balcony. Furniture etc. look a bit dated, but everything was clean and in perfect working order. There seemed to be a lot of wasted space e.g. in the bathroom, but I guess some people would see this as a plus. Our balcony was facing the horse paddock.

 

Livingroom

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Shower and part of bathtub (it took some time to get water to the right temperature)

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Service

Very good staff. Friendly, proactive etc. One night at Shellers the kitchen had messed up (slightly) one of our kids' order. Both kids received free sodas (two each) as compensation. Pretty good recovery, I'd say.

Dining

First morning we had breakfast buffet at Firewheel. Buffet (which includes also the omelet station) is priced so that $60 Diamond breakfast allowance per room covers it + tips for two persons. The buffet is really quite extensive for an American hotel, good selection of hot items, meats and cheese, for example. Second morning we had to head out very early, so we grabbed coffee, toasts and some other items from McDade's. This item was not automatically deleted from the bill, guy doing the checkout was unsure why. (But I had no problems in getting it removed.)

 

We had dinner on both nights at Shellers. Not cheap, but not expensive by resort standards. Hamburgers and tacos were tasty, and there was a nice selection of local beers.

Location

It is long way from anything urban, which is the point. I enjoyed e.g. hiking. It was unusually warm during our visit, which also meant many visits to the pool area. It is not very big, and I don't know how it would be when there are more people. Now it was almost deserted. The property was pretty packed, but it was mostly corporate events.

Overall

For my family this hotel offered a very nice two-day break. We were not very active, but the golf course did look tempting. We did go hiking and used the pool, though. Getting the Diamond breakfast benefit for both of our rooms was really valuable.

 

Lots of pictures of various Texas musicians in rooms, restaurants, hallways etc. I liked this a lot.

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