I stay here every other week and th staff is friendly in all areas of the hotel. The rooms have been updated and there's a full service Starbucks downstairs!

The fitness center is a decent size and the TVs on the treadmills and such are large screens and open 24/7.

We held a meeting yesterday at the Marriott and everything worked well. Our meetings are somewhat complicated, as we required multiple meeting rooms with different setups and two groups of attendees that had different food and beverage requirements. Here are the reasons why it was a great venue for our meetings.

- Meeting space size was more than enough for us. Clean and spacious
- All working outlets (seems simple enough but you'd be surprised how many hotels I have had issues with this)
- Functional and soundproofed airwalls.
- Banquet food was excellent
- Banquet and sales staff, especially Olivia, Betsy, and William were all there when we needed them
- Good value overall for what we received
- AV tech was competent and helpful
- Engineering was available quickly for a request I had while setting up our equipment
- Good hotel location, and secure; security came around a few times while I was setting up our a/v later in the evening. Since we have expensive electronic equipment, seeing a security presence alleviated any concerns I may have otherwise had.

Overall, would I choose the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center again? Absolutely.

We stayed for 2 nights over New Years and overall I'd say the experience was ok. Check in was slow and not very helpful. The doorman was on a break and the check in person would not let us take a luggage rack as it was against the hotel policy to let guests take the racks on their own. After a discussion, she agreed to let us take it but it really started our visit off on a negitive footing.

The location of the hotel is not great. There is very little around the hotel. It does have a restaurant however it was closed when we were there so I cannot comment on it. We found we had to drive or take cabs when heading out. We prefer to be in locations where we can walk out to restaurants in the evening - this is not the case with this hotel.

We booked a King suite and it was fine. Nothing special. Bigger room but that was about it. Bathroom was small and had limited counter space. Bed was comfortable. Unfortunately there was a basketball team staying on our floor and they were pretty loud particularly in the evenings. While the hotel cannot help this, I'd say that the walls are really thin as you could hear everything. We were woken up both nights of our stay when the team came home at 3am.

The bright spot for the hotel - the gym. It was really good. 4-5 treadmills, bikes and cross trainers. Good weight selection and a multi-purpose weight machine was pretty much allowed you to work all body parts. There was a pool attached to the gym however we did not use it. It was big and looked to be quite good.

There is a starbucks in the building which is a nice plus in the morning for coffee. However overall our experience was average and I would not recommend or stay here again.

from the check in to check out it was a wonderful experience. the room was excellent the lobby was beatiful and the restuarant was great. the public bathrooms were clean and the staff was nice at all times. did not use pool or fitness rooms.