My family made a reservation at this hotel for a 4 day stay over the Christmas holiday. I had reserved a 2 bedroom suite with a water view, but when we checked in we were given an ADA room that was heavily modified for wheelchair access. I asked the front desk manager to switch our room to a normal non-ADA room, but was told there wasn't one available until tomorrow. So, our stay started out with an issue, but the manager fixed it the next day as promised, but we now have a view of the parking lot and not a water view. Some other issues came up during our stay, such as unreliable hot water, difficult shower activation, WiFi internet connection problems, dirty dishes, missing bathroom shelf. Pros: - Free complimentary hot breakfast (except Christmas Day) - Nice laundry facilities - Safe, walkable surroundings - Reasonable room rate Cons: - $15/day for parking - Paid for water view room but got a parking lot view - The hot water for showering was very inconsistent. Mostly just lukewarm water - The shower in the 2nd bathroom didn't work - Maintenance crew seems to work inconsistent hours - Given an ADA room because it was the only one available - Our room was never cleaned during our stay What I've learned from this experience is to use the Marriott app to check in as early as possible and ask for a non-ADA room. If the app is glitchy and doesn't seem to work, call the hotel directly and ask for a non-ADA room. When I checked out, the general manager did ask about my stay and I filled him in on my experience. He did seem to sincerely care about what I told him, and offered us some compensation which was a nice gesture. As such, we will try this hotel again in the future to hopefully have a better experience.
Clean, simple, near everything. We stayed at this hotel for another baseball tournament. We are from California, did not know our way around, but this was a GREAT location. Directly across from a mall. The mall has many food options and lots of shopping. The hotel itself was very green and offered many options such as EV chargers, water bottle filling stations and a good breakfast in the morning. There are no bars or restaurants on site in the hotel, but while we were there they had a happy hour with free wine and beer a few nights during the week. The pool is very basic and small, but we enjoyed ourselves.
I'm starting this by saying that the customer service was fantastic and has nothing to do with why we won't stay at one again and I'm a customer service critic. Don't be in a customer service position if you don't want to provide a great experience for your customer! The main reason we won't stay at one again is because the king bed was way too hard for our liking. We both live with conditions that causes severe pain so we need softer beds. These definitely are not that. This bed caused my hips to start hurting within 30mins of laying on my side. I actually slept on the hideaway bed bc it was softer which btw was the best one I've ever slept on! No ridiculous bar in your back all not and it was long enough. I'm 6' and my feet didn't touch the end. I still had a couple more inches left. I could have had another 6” if needed by removing the pillows at the head of the bed so kudos for that! More hotels need to follow suit if they haven't already! 2nd reason is bc of the room setup. It is all wrong and doesn't accommodate to people with disabilities and people with neck problems in particular. My husband has Ankylosis Spondylitis, a condition that fuses your vertebrae together so having to constantly look to the right when you want to lay in bed creates a lot of pain and actually caused my husband to get a migraine. The TV should be placed across from the bed, parallel walls not perpendicular. 3rd reason is bc the of noise. You could hear everything from the halls and up above us. Whomever it was decided they needed to get their steps in.. 7 stomping paces one way, turnaround, 7 stomping paces back over and over and over, for 3 solid hours actually. That's when we decided to call the front desk who called the customer to tell them to stop. Sadly they had to do it twice. The location is fantastic tho! Any kind of crave you have can be satisfied which is wonderful when you can't make up your mind or have the munchies! We landed on burgers from Longhorn Steakhouse and dessert from Cheesecake Factory. All in all, it was fine for an overnight stay for us. If we weren't all medically messed up, I'm sure the beds would have been fine. I've actually slept on harder. I'm also sure that the room would be acceptable for someone who isn't noise sensitive and doesn't suffer from insomnia.
The hotel is nicely decorated with really comfortable beds. There’s a nice bar and small restaurant on the ground floor as well as the M club for medallion members. The M club wasn’t well stocked when we visited so we stopped by the restaurant. When I told our server, Kane, I was a bit under the weather, she offered the best herbal tea. Kane was so friendly, helpful and went above and beyond. She even made sure the next shift had the recipe so I could enjoy it in the morning. Great stay.
This was the worst stay I’ve had in Phoenix metro area. I have stayed at 63 different hotels in the Phoenix metro area in the last year, and though there’s other bad hotels out here, this one feels deliberate in its intention. There are some obvious staffing issues at this facility, with the exception of front desk Bob who was very professional and comes across as very experienced. My issue was a simple one really, one that most hotels would never stoop to. (Disclaimer, I am a Marriott employee, and as a manager myself am afforded discounted room stays) we had a small house fire 2 years ago that put us in hotels ( I was with Hilton group then but same deal there) for a month or so. As I result I started my blog which I can not advertise here but I reach thousands of Marriott guests 3 times a week writing reviews of area hotels. I will stay at 3 different hotels a week because I have 2 jobs and 1 overnight 4 days a week. I don’t bother renting an apartment or house for the moment this is much cheaper and no upkeep. I know everything about the hotel business. I’ve been a general manager of the knickerbocker in Chicago in the 90’s and have held every single position possible over the last nearly 40 years in this business. So when I say I know what is supposed to happen at the front of the house and the back of the house you can count on my professional accuracy. So I was really disappointed with this hotel’s extremely unprofessional approach to what I viewed as a “customer comes last” policy. Like I said, the issue would have been a nonissue at every other major Marriott in the area ( granted this is a tiny hotel, they still should follow our standards) but I checked in early and front desk Brandon insisted I pay double for the discounted room. No other hotel would have even brought up the early check-in and I check in to my hotel every time at the same time of day. Brandon said he wouldn’t budge. I was even kind enough to explain “you can ask a guest to double pay but we usually only reserve that policy for situations where granting the guest the courtesy of early check-in will cost the hotel. But since this is a vacant ready room and the hotel will not be able to sell the room prior to check in we always accommodate the guests needs, because it costs nothing of the hotel”. Brandon looked at my like I had two heads. He clearly didn’t understand this simple principle followed by all the rest of us. But I paid it because I would be charged anyway for late cancellation. I figured the next day (‘Monday) I’ll explain to the manager and get my money back. HA. Lol. I was sadly mistaken there. Thomas Munoz the manger of the hotel, doubled down Brandon’s view of telling me how many hours before regular check in it was and that because of that “he had to charge me”. I said ok but...then I repeated the economics lesson I was kind enough to share with his front desk associate. I got the same blank stare. Funny thing is I know that these 2 guy
Me and family stay here last night we were traveling during midnight, tired and with kids. We looked at the hotel, beautiful building, lobby, etc. However, our room OMG, old socks (dirty) next to the bed, human hair on bathroom and everywhere. The carpet looked like if it had dust from years ago. The mini refrigerator so so dirty. I went to the front desk, the person who was there ”Omar” didn't even made eye contact with me all he said was ”thank you” and supposedly there was no manager. Horrible service. Breakfast was ok, coffee tasted horrible, the area was not clean and there was cereal , trash on the counters. I had stayed at other Comfort Inn before and never had something like this horrible and dirty experience. I don't know how in the world this hotel has some good star rating. I was not even able to give my babies a bath due to the unsanitary conditions of the bathroom. Pay $200 for a horrible unsanitary night. Don't waste your money. I was only able to take those to pictures, I was on a hurry to get my kids out of there. Go to the other hotels next to this one.