This hotel was recommended by my travel agent and boy is she in some trouble when I get to see her. Like the previous reviewer I have to say it is a DUMP with a capital "D". I paid over the odds for this place as well (I found out that the rates are much much cheaper with lots ot travel packages ...but well you live and learn).
So after lining up to check in for at least a half an hour I was given a room in the Skyline Tower that was just awful. I took one look at the bed and went "no way".
I was able to upgrade - at $10 per night (where was the $5 a night upgrade one reviewer mentioned?)- to a room with a pillow top bed in the West Tower. It still was a very basic room - no door on the wardrobe (which couldnt really be called a wardrobe - just a hanging space - but there was only 5 coat hangers which made things a bit difficult). Very basic bathroom and toiletries very average. Trying to call down to reception was a nightmare - go through the choosing of numbers and then get put on hold for ages.
They slug you $1 a day (mandatory) for unlimited local calls (of which I made none) and then the $10 a day for the upgrade. I had a fax come through that I had to pay $5 per page for and then of course there was the $11.95 a day Internet charge. I was not a happy camper at all.
On top of all my woes, the walls were so thin I could hear the family next door quite clearly and it was very annoying when they came in late at night and woke me up and then of course they woke me up in the early morning too. After 3 days that family moved out and then even noiser peope moved in. I just HATED being here.
The hotel is really too far away from the main hustle and bustle and you really need to take a cab to get anywhere. I totally believe the best kindness anyone can do to this place is bulldoze it down and start again.












