My husband, teenage daughter, and I stayed her two nights in June. We liked the location in the historic district. The front desk personnel were very helpful and friendly. The room was nicely furnished. The bathroom was a bit small with a single sink and small counter. The hair dryer took an extremely long time to dry our hair. I requested a room in a quiet area of the hotel, but was given a room facing the fire station on the corner. We didn't ask to be moved, but the sirens made it difficult to sleep. The sheets and pillow cases were quite scratchy (obviously low quality). The A/C was very loud. These are all things that make a difference to me because I'm a light sleeper.

We made the mistake of eating breakfast in the restaurant one morning. There was a very long wait to be seated. They obviously were short-handed and did not have enough people to clear the tables, re-stock the breakfast buffet, and wait on customers. The continental breakfast buffet cost $8.95. The hot breakfast buffet cost $12.95. Neither was worth the money. I would NOT recommend eating breakfast at the hotel. There are other places within walking distance were you can have a nice breakfast. We ate at the nearby Metropolitan Bakery the next day.

I was very disappointed that we were charged a $10 surcharge for our 15-year-old daughter to stay in the room. We have never been charged an extra fee for our daughter at any of the other hotels we have stayed at in the past.

Overall, I would recommend this hotel, but probably wouldn't stay there again.

I stayed at this hotel the week of May 31 - June 4 while I attended a conference at the Philadelphia Convention Center. What a great hotel! The location is in what seems like a very safe area, and is within walking distance to all of the major sights (U.S. Mint, Libery Bell, Betsy Ross House, Constitution Hall, etc.) and 8 blocks from the convention center.

The staff here was very friendly and the rooms are very clean and large. However, I would suggest requesting a room away from Arch street. There is a fire station on the corner of 4th and Arch, and let me just say that it is an EXTREMELY busy station. Not exactly conducive to sleeping. However, if you keep the air-conditioning on, it drowns out the noise.

Philadelphia is a great city! And I would highly recommend staying in this hotel if you want to be close to the major attractions.

Clean hotel, within walking distance of all major historical places in Independence Park. Clean rooms, comfortable and secure. Excellent staff. Dinner meal was essentially pub-like food and was disappointing. Breakfast area does not have near enough seats for the number of guests in the hotel. Went back to my room and ordered room service for breakfast meals which turned out to be cheaper than if I had used the buffet. I will use this hotel again for the next several business trips.

We had a wonderful stay at this hotel. The rooms were clean, we had a view of the Christ Church steeple from our room. All the sights were in walking distance: Ben Franklin's grave, Franklin court, Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, the mint, etc. We parked the car and didn't have to use it once.
We got a little confused at the parking instructions. Being from "the country" where you don't have to pay for parking or get your parking validated, we were lost! I asked the person at check-in exactly what we needed to do, but she didn't help much. We were suppossed to give them our parking ticket on check-in so we would pay a lower price, but we didn't. It wasn't a problem, though, they fixed it for me at check-out.
One thing I thought was weird about this hotel is that they didn't have the weather channel. If we wanted to look at the weather, we had to catch it in the morning local news. ?
If we plan another trip here I would definitely stay again.