JJ Husker

Gonna break in the bed??  

I am very happy to see some new hotels downtown. It's been ridiculous how much hotels are on game weekend.  More competition should allow for some more reasonable rates.

Well, it wasn’t terrible but there were some issues. First the good. It is brand new and clean. The location is good for games and access to the Haymarket area. It should help slightly with price and demand.

The bad. They struggled with being able to confirm reservations and the person who checked us in was not sufficiently trained. Our key cards did not work first time and had to go down to have them reprogrammed. There was an extraneous tv stand left in our room still in the bag. And the outer appearance was nothing at all like the artists rendering presented online.

The ugly. Valet parking was not as promised. Told us if we called down ahead they would have our vehicle out front. Called 15 minutes before we went down but they didn’t go to retrieve until we got down there…and it took another 22 minutes. And the street noise from O Street traffic was almost unbearable. We were on 2nd floor (avoid that). My sons room was on 3rd floor and it was slightly better. A few more floors up might be tolerable. The good thing was the AC unit was so GD loud that it would drown out the street noise when it kicked on. Overall, don’t plan on staying there again but maybe it will lighten demand and pricing on others in the area.