OK, but you get what you pay for
Written: Apr 24 '06
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Pros: cheap
Cons: warm and stuffy
The Bottom Line: Go in the winter, maybe the rooms will be cool -
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| gergseveer's Full Review: Club Quarters, Central Loop (Chicago) |
Remember way back when businesses hung signs out front that read “Air Conditioned” in order to lure customers? Well, apparently, the wealthy owners of Club Quarters were never impressed by such extravagant frivolities as cold, conditioned air. However, someone should be credited with the training given the front desk personnel in explaining to guests, politely, “Sir, but your room is cool” or “we turn the A/C off for the entire building at 8:00 p.m.” and, my favorite, “we’ll be glad to deliver another fan up to your room to blow the air around.”
Before arriving at CQ, we called ahead and requested a sofa bed for our “suite.” We were assigned a room with a chair, no sofa. The staff happily accommodated our request to move, so that our children would not have to sleep on the floor. And, our new room did have a sofa bed. The kids didn’t seem to mind that the bed, when extended, completely blocked passage from the main bed to the remainder of the room. My wife and I had to walk on top of the sofa mattress / bed, dodge our children’s legs, and bed springs in order to brush our teeth after the children were tucked away.
As for our bed, there must be some health benefit to my head being down lower 2 to 3 inches than my feet - though I didn’t ask the front desk to explain that part to me. At first, the well worn mattress seemed bumpy, but I began to think of it as “camping out” - something that I missed out on as a child.
The microwave, refrigerator and closet were a real plus. Our view was of the side of a building that was dark, dirty, brown, and right across the alley. The people inside did not appear to be sweating. I was envious. Our windows would not open. Believe me, I examined every square millimeter for a latch of some sort.
The corridors to the rooms reminded me of those corn field mazes at Halloween: narrow, with many turns. Fortunately, someone thought to place room number signs on the walls. And on the doors. Costly, but worth it.
The hotel was a great location for our purposes: being tourists. Clean. Hot water. Cheap compared to other places we considered.
Recommended:
No
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