It's so funky that at first, I thought I was too old to stay there. But what a great place, clean and you can get a yoga mat and do yoga in your room while watching a yoga video. The martinis at Bar Rouge are terrific, though the 9 naked statues outside are a bit much.

Really poor front desk staff, room service that took forever to arrive (and the choices after 9 pm were unbelievably limited, there was no menu in my room, and the restaurant staff had a terrible time communicating what was available), and a bordering-on-seedy ambiance added up to a bad trip of a visit. Odd, too, since the Hotel Monaco in Seattle, which is in the same hotel group, is one of my all-time favorite places to stay.