OVERRATED: reviews are misleading
We travel to Chicago 15-20 times per year for weekend trips and stay at many of the hotels in town. Based on write-ups of this hotel (and a cheap Expedia deal) we decided to give it a try. What a letdown! This place was actually billed as the "most romantic hotel in Chicago" by someone??? What a lie! The furnishings are a la 1965. There was hole in the wall of the bathroom near the baseboard...big..tiles falling out.
There were 3 burned out lightbulbs in the room. And there were No rooms available at check-in time (3:00pm) so we had to wait an hour...what made us laugh was the gang of 4 housekeepers lounging around laughing in one of the other rooms when we were finally allowed to check in...get it together girls! There is only ONE TINY elevator serving all floors (10?, 12?), so you can imagine what checkout time is like in the tiny cramped frontdesk area. You can do SO MUCH better than this in Chicago. Even with a discount rate, we would never return, and the regular rack rates are ridiculously high...you could get REAL luxury for the prices they ask. Hunt around online, you'll find far better places to stay, even around the Mag Mile. I don't know who this place is paying off, but I can't imagine anyone short of the Flintstones finding this decaying wreck "romantic"! Sloppy staff, shabby rooms.
Shame, shame.




