3 nights at this great hotel. Room was clean, stylish and comfotable. Location is great near convention center, SJSU, historic SJ and HP Pavillion. Nice touches like robes, IPOD player, cd player, cushy chair.... We overlooked the patio that was busy on Friday and Saturday nights. Food in the Palomar restaurant was great, we sat at the bar. If you likes Westins but on a smaller scale this is the place.

We stayed at the hotel this past weekend as a quick getaway. Our top priority was air conditioning to escape the record heat in Silicon Valley. The room was very modern, decorated in tans and browns.

When we called we were quoted the normal rate for the King room, but I mentioned that I saw a lower price on their own website as the 'rack rate'. Jose not only adjusted the rate, but found a way to make it even lower.

Check in was a breeze and there were several local restaurants to choose from. Sadly the delightful Paragon was not one of them as they had closed their kitchen an hour earlier than stated in the room brochure.

The room was clean and quiet with very little street noise. Our room overlooked first street from the second floor - so I expected more noise.

Check out was pretty average. I was in a hurry and did not have any extra charges, so I should have used he room's express checkout instead of going to the desk. Alas, old habits die hard.

Very nice, clean and modern hotel. This hotel was different in style from those whcih we usually stay. Trendy furnishings made for a nice change of pace. Helpful staff and wired internet in the rooms puts this hotel on my "recomment" list.

The Hotel Montgomery is a very nice hotel that presented a number of small problems. Individually, no particular problem was bad, but they added up to make a somewhat disconcerting experience. In rough chronological order:

1) On arriving at the hotel, I was informed that their system was down. After waiting for about 10 minutes, I gave up and went to find dinner. Upon returning, I found that they had no record of my reservation, despite my making it on their website. Thankfully they had plenty of rooms available and there was no problem.
2) My room (#201 - avoid it!) had a very bright orange floodlight pointed at the window from the building opposite. The blinds blocked most of the light, but I tend to be a bit light-sensitive so it was irritating.
3a) The next morning I asked to be moved to a different room, and told them my luggage was all packed up to be ready to move. Upon returning that afternoon, the person at the front desk told me that the "bellhop must have been busy this morning or something" and my bags hadn't been moved.
3b) I had to insist on moving the bags myself, as the front desk person wanted me to wait. He said he couldn't make me a key card for the old room, since there was currently no one checked into it, and he couldn't leave the desk. Eventually someone showed up to watch the desk and he got a master key card and we went up to the room.
3c) It turned out that someone had moved my bags after all. But they had not moved my camcorder battery charger that was plugged into the wall right next to my suitcase - if that had been left, I would have had to spend about $300 to replace it and the batteries.
4) The air conditioner in the new room made an awful vibrating sound. It was only the next day that I discovered this had to do with the sliding bathroom door - apparently it was hitting something inside the wall.
5) "Continental breakfast," to my mind, usually implies "free". Obviously I'm not used to high-class establishments such as this - a half-cup of granola at the attached Paragon restaurant was $1.50, and the privelige of adding milk was another $1.50. It might have been cheaper to eat my breakfast from the minibar!
6) The last night there, I checked the "welcome" packet in my room for restaurant hours. It said "dinner is served from 5:30 to 11:30pm daily." When I went down to the restaurant at 10, the waiter told me I was just in time because they actually stop serving dinner at 10. When I mentioned the flyer in the room, he said "yeah, they're dumb." I'm forced to agree.

As I mentioned, each of these problems by themselves would have been no problem, but added up together they make for a less-than-perfect experience. Despite this, there were no major issues - the decor is much nicer than your standard hotel, the bed is comfortable, the shower water pressure good, the staff friendly - and given the choice, I would probably stay here again.