This hotel is very conveniently located off 75, minutes from SMU, just around the corner from NorthPark Mall (which is HUGE! Bring your hiking boots) and a small shopping center with a Cheesecake Factory restaurant (recommended), Barnes and Noble, and grocery store. While the location was hard to beat, we will not be staying here again. There were good things about this hotel, and the price was reasonable, but the bad outweighed the good for us.
Plusses: Our suite was immaculately clean and quiet, (no overuse of air-freshener); the bed was comfortable; the kitchen well-equipped; the service was friendly; parking was in a key-card secured garage connected to the building.
The minuses: The wood blinds, while pretty, let in way too much light--- we were all up at the crack of dawn. I certainly wouldn't have been able to nap during the day. I just can't imagine hotels not having block-out curtains in their rooms nowadays.
The breakfast buffet wasn't that great--- I've certainly seen better at hotels much cheaper than this.
The Nintendo controller was in the bedroom portion of the suite. We had hoped to let our children play in the den area (where the fold-out couch was) while we watched TV in the bedroom. Not possible.
And the pool---- it was FREEZING! And this was late September in Dallas! The highs all week had been in the 90s, but you couldn't even let your legs dangle in the water in the afternoon, that's how cold it was. The pool is in the center of the courtyard, blocked on all sides duing the day by the 4-story building, so it only gets direct sunlight for a few hours each day. Our children were extremely disappointed, as hanging out at pool was going to be a big part of our long weekend. I couldn't believe how cold it was. I'm not sure if it's heated at other times of the year, but it would HAVE to be, if it was this cold in September. You might want to check on this if you intend to swim. We wish we had--- this alone would have made a huge difference in our satisfaction with the hotel.
So, in short, if you're not planning to swim, and are using this as a business hotel and have no intention of sleeping in, this hotel might be a fine choice for you. We will look elsewhere next time.






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