If you are used to empty, impersonal convention venues, then you should feel right at home at this small convention center/medium-sized hotel. From the moment you wait for the one clerk at the large check-in counter to the day your departure is delayed because the driver of the complimentary shuttle is loitering with the other drivers, you can feel immersed in the comfortable anonymity of the ignored. I could maintain invisability even in my room with burned out bulbs in the desk and bedstand lamps and a recently installed wall lamp in the darkest corner of the studio that had a power cord too short to reach any electrical outlet. The location is forlorn; the Hilton sits on nicely landscaped grounds separate from but in the middle of a tract of lowrise office buildings. This whole campus is surrounded by a seedy neighborhood through which most guests would not feel comfortable walking, but it was a fine 20 minute walk during daylight hours to downtown Stamford. Fortunately, the shuttle is available to take the guests downtown or to the Metro train station every 20 minutes until 10:30 pm. The trip is 5-7 minutes.
Downtown Stamford has a large upscale mall with quite a few moderate restaurants, so I saw no reason to hazard a chance at the Hotel food.
The rooms, bathrooms and hallways were clean. The bathroom counter was small for the size of the bathroom. The room security safe was nonfunctional and I had to use a safe deposit box at the front desk. Wi-fi internet access was free in the lobby but cabled internet access was $9.95 per day in the room, a cheap shot, in my opinion, for a three star Hilton Hotel. They should at least give complimentary internet access to their Hilton Honors guests.
The highlights of my stay were the super-polite hotel employees,
the HD flat plasma screen TV, the same William D. Middleton train photographic print in the bathroom and studio, apples always at the front desk, and dependable internet access, even if I had to go down to the lobby for it.
Bottom line: you won't feel that you paid too much to stay here if someone else is paying for it, or you use a steep discounter for a prepaid stay. One big caveat: I only became aware of this by reading the small print on the room key envelope at check-in: this hotel charges a $50.00 'administrative fee' for early departures, and I often lose the last day of my prepaid stays due to change of plans, but I made a point of staying until the bittersweet end at this venue.

This is a former Westin hotel, but it has been in decline. Five years ago as a Westin I stayed here many times on business travel. It was a solid three stars then. It is about 1.5 stars now. Very disappointing. The room was not clean. The staff is surly. The property and physical building are attractive and the rooms start off ok, but the surly staff and lack of cleanliness are a big turn off. This was just recently converted into a Hilton which was a quantum step down. This hotel will not raise the reputation of Hiltons. It should be an embarrassment to that chain. After being my go-to hotel in Stamford, this one is permanently crossed off in my mind.

We reserved 2 rooms through Expedia, but upon arrival, the Hilton only had 1 room reserved. Big hassle between the hotel and Expedia and I don't think the hotel was very helpful, but it was finally resolved after a few hours of wrangling. The rooms were fairly clean, except the drinking glasses were dirty. I left them out every day but it looks like they only got a cursory swipe. The closet door was broken, the room safe did not work and the phones were out of order on my last day. The service in the restaurant downstairs is excellent, but the food is overpriced and not consistent. My $38 tenderloin was very tough, but the manager comped it and replaced it with an excellent New York. They were very nice about it.

My husband and I stayed here this past weekend and it wasn't bad. The first room we got had a broken tv, a tub that didn't drain and a toilet that didn't flush. The staff was apologetic and moved us to another room within 10 minutes of my phone call. They also refunded us for the night's stay. The buffet was really good, it had a nice selection of fresh foods. The pool area was ok, but the first night we were there, it was crowded with all these weird people- it was total chaos, screaming kids everywhere, towels strewn all over the place. We walked in and walked right back out.

The neighborhood is pretty crappy. I wouldn't recommed walking alone anywhere at night.