I was a little hesitant to stay at this hotel after reading the reviews, but I had a meeting at the hotel to attend.
The hotel has been recently renovated and is beautiful! The staff was very friendly and helpful. The rooms were clean and the restaurant had nice service. I will certainly stay at this hotel again when I visit Houston.

Stayed here for the Broncos/Texans game and frankly..was worried a bit about it due to other reviews I've seen. The fears proved to be totally unfounded.

We had a room on the 11th floor which had a pretty good view of the city. The room itself was very spacious and clean, the bed was very comfortable, the bathroom, like the rest of the room, looked as if it had been recently remodeled.

Another pleasant surprise was the food. We had decent room service with food delivered in a timely fashion. The quality was very good as well. The hotel bar sees little action except on gameday but that isn't necessarily such a bad thing as it became an ideal place for a quiet evening drink.

Speaking of gameday, this hotel is right next to Reliant Stadium with a back gateway to exits right out into the stadium's parking lot...you can't get much more convienent than that.

Another myth to dispell here is that this hotel is supposedly in a "bad" neighborhood. This may have been the case when a lot of the people displaced by Katrina were living in the Astrodome, but that situation is long over with by now. We walked about to nearby restuarants unhassled and without fear.

My girlfriend and me booked this hotel for three nights. The kingsize room on the 2nd floor was nicely decorated and seemed clean at first sight. After some time I saw some ants on the desk and the floor. Tired as we were we didn't bother and went to sleep.

Next day there were ants all over the room, and we requested another room. The staff was very friendly and gave us a room on the 7th floor. Sice we directly found ants in the bed in that room as well, we went back to the front desk. Again the staff apologized and transferred us to a room on the 11th floor (executive level). This room was spotless.

We didn't spend a lot of time in the hotel except for the nights so I have no opionion about the pool, bars or restaurants.

If there would have been no ants, I would have considered this place as OK. But now I will not returm in future.

Location is great if you need to be near Reliant Center, Reliant Stadium or even the Medical Center. But there were roaches and the front desk staff didn't seem surprised about it (as they gave me a very small discount off my room rate). Other than that, this property seems pretty well maintained for an older property. Complimentary high speed wireless internet is a plus. But if I return to this area I will check out some of the other nearby, affordable properties.