If you are thinking about this hotel, don't do it! It was the worst hotel experience that I have ever had. Your first impression is that the lobby looks great. Well, this is where it stops because the rest of the hotel is in utter ruins. We were booked on a floor that was not remodeled. The bathroom had not been updated since the 70s. There was not adequate lighting. The door was a slab of decaying wood. The toilet was not bolted down to anything. The water that ran from the bathtub was brown. When I called to report the water, my phone would not even connect to an operator. When I finally reached someone and complained about the brown water and lighting, I was told that was common, and to let the water run a while. The rep seemed unconcerned, and more importantly, she sounded like she had heard the story 100 times already from other guests. I demanded to be transferred to another, updated room. This one was a little better, but not by much. The shower has no door or curtain, but half of a wall blocking the faucet. You have to climb into the shower just to turn it on. And because there is no curtain or protection from the rest of the bathroom, the water floods the entire bathroom. I'm sure they have extreme leakage problems. When I complained, I was told that this is how its made, and there is nothing they can do. Of course, they don't care. The halls have a foul odor. The elevators were laced with trash. I saw a pile of tossed fast food in the corner of one of the elevators. The hotel was dark and dreary, and it felt haunted. It didn't even have many guests. It takes 15 minutes to walk to the parking garage. I even heard a rep dissuade another guest from eating in their restaurant. The entire hotel stinks. The internet in the lobby doesn't work because they claim they have to reboot their modem when a guest wants to use it. I believe they would fail inspection in every category. This hotel ruined my trip and I hope they get shut down!

Initially the decor seems handsome however the rooms are poorly lit for the trendy yet dark decor. Women forget applying makeup the lighting is too dark. The towels need to be replaced. The halls and lobby areas are hot. The restaurant is over priced, and DARK can't see what you're eating but that may have been a plus cause it wasn't good anyway. Ballrooms are nice bedrooms a pitiful. The decor is nice but the lighting is horrible. It was drab and uninviting. If you suffer from depression this is not your place. I can't imagine staying here in inclimate weather, the dark halls are enough to zap the life from anyone. The elevators are very very SLOW. YOu gotta pay $140 to stay and $10 per day for internet. DUH! what was the $140 for?

Ok stayed at the Blake Hotel for CIAA weekend (a big party week in Charlotte for college basketball) anyway we got a fabulous rate off of one of the websites, so this made our stay the best. We were on the 4th floor, room in front of the elevators (which I could have changed, but I am sure the hotel was full this weekend). The hotel is very trendy looking, the rooms they might have went over board in trying to make it trendy, and then had an old phone from the 80's so we thought it was funny, like they ran out of money for the upgrades.

The location was walking distance from the convention center and downtown/uptown whichever they call it, so that was fabulous, you didnt need to rent a car and their were cabs outside at all times.

Negatives, the food in the restaurant was nothing of interest. There is no room service and no work out room. I dont think I've ever been to a hotel without a fitness center??? That was really weird.

While we were there the hot water went out. I have to commend the staff as this hotel was full to capacity, and the staff made it their concern to explain to the guest what was going on, they put a memo under the door about the problem. They also gave you a refund of one nights stay and gave you the options of changing hotels or being shuttled to another hotel to take a shower. I was impressed that they handled this situation promply and professionally.

But I have seen there prices start at the 250-350 section and I would have been very upset at my accomodations if this is what I paid per night. The hotel is definitely not worth those prices per night.

The Blake is severely mismanaged. It's renovated many of it's rooms and is "trying" to be a nice, hip hotel, but it simply isn't b/c it seems no one in management cares.

Examples:
- The renovated rooms look nice, but they choose to buy cheap hard mattresses.
- The bathrooms look hip, but then your realize not having a shower curtain floods the floor.. Yes, the showers have a half glass door as a curtain... nothing really blocks the water. My floor was flooded after every shower.
- The receptionists made it a point to check us in late b/c "we booked through Expedia". She mentioned this 5 times making it clear we would not get good service b/c we used Expedia (ridiculous).
- They have a pool table in the hotel lobby/bar, but only offer broken pool sticks.. Seriously, every pool stick was broken. How hard is it to buy two new sticks... even one new stick.. so people can play?

I will say the location is great if you have business downtown and everyone (minus the receptionists) are very nice.