Stayed at the Embassy Suites Lynnwood for 2 nights, the best way to write a review on this hotel is to grade it.
Front Desk, Grade A+
Checked in at 7 PM, there was no line up and no wait, the person that helped me was polite, friendly, and helpful. I talked to them several times during my stay, and each time they were always smiling, and extremely polite. Phoned the front desk the first night for extra towels, and within 10 minutes someone came to my door with them.
Breakfast, Grade A
During Saturday, and Sunday morning, breakfast is served till 10:30 AM, and the buffet section is opened. With the open buffet, you can get pancakes, French toast, hash browns, eggs, sausage, and bacon. You can also line up for a freshly made omelette (with or without cheese), topping choice are: ham, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, green pepper, jalapeno, and 2 more toppings (they had 8, can’t remember the other 2). Beverage: Coffee, tea, Cranberry juice, orange juice, apple juice, 2% milk, and Coca cola pop product (Coke, Sprite, etc). Cereal : Raisin Brand, Rice Krispies, Cheerios, and Fruit Loops. During the weekdays, breakfast is served till 9AM, and the buffet is closed, so there is only one line up; for your omelette and the items at the buffet. They serve the same thing as mentioned above minus the pancakes.
Room Grade A
The room is very nice, and I concur with all the positive post about how nice the rooms are.
Housecleaning Grade C+
On Sunday morning, my family and I left the room at 9:30 AM, and returned to our room at 4:30 PM and our room has not been cleaned yet. The next morning (check out date), at 9:00 AM, housecleaning knocks on my door to ask when we’re checking out, check out isn’t till 12 noon, to me this was totally unprofessional, what if I wanted to sleep in or something like that. Besides that, the room was cleaned without any complaints
Internet Grade C-
Internet cost $5 per 24 hours, or $25 for a week. Most laptop today comes with a built in wireless network card, just make sure it works. While the high speed internet is a lot faster than a modem line, to me it’s pretty slow. I did 8 tests through out my stay, at variable time (ranging from 12 midnight, 6 AM, 8PM) using speakeasy.org for an unbiased results; each time the results were pretty close the same, about 500kbps for both upload and download; or 63 KB/s. For simple e-mail and web surfing the high speed internet will do fine, if you plan on receiving large attachments, or need to download large files, you better go get a cup of coffee. With the data port in the room, forget it. It’s buried beside the sofa in the room, and the connection is a lot worst, download was coming in at only 20 KB/s (3 times slower), and yes, my wireless network card was disable at the time. BTW the LAN card connected at only 10 MB. One thing I should mention is the wireless signal strength, at the hotel was very good, so good that the meter was full. Overall the internet service itself is very reliable, and the only reason for the low marks is the speed of the internet.
Swimming Pool Grade D
The Swimming pool grade would be an F, but the swimming pool area is very nice, only if you can use it. What I’m told, most Fridays and Saturdays night, the swimming pool is crowded with out of control kids. How bad? The Saturday night I stayed, there were OVER 25 kids (close to 30) in the swimming pool and spa; so crowded that it was close to standing room only, and with the window of room that was available in the swimming pool, kids were diving in that area, splashing water onto everyone, being an indoor pool, the screaming of the kids would echo, which made the noise louder than a rock concert. By Sunday morning, the spa was out of order (wonder why). The day I was there, the swimming pool water was cold; the engineer at the hotel told me that the water was 82 degrees, I asked him to put his hand into the pool and tell me that feels like 82 degrees; he refused. Only after I told him that 2 water outtake at the bottom of the pool (5 Feet area) was shooting out ice cold water, that he finally did something to fix the problem. If swimming is important on your list, I highly suggest you call the hotel first to make sure there is no soccer convention, or anything with a lot of kids involved; or stay during the weekdays, and not the weekend.
Fitness Room: Grade N/A
Didn’t use the fitness room, it has a large LCD/Plasma TV while your do free weights. A couple of treadmills, and 2 Elliptical machines. Very quite, and is open 24 hours for guests over 18; pretty sure this will please all that requires a fitness room.
Manager reception Grade: N/A
Did not try the reception between 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, they served Miller lite, and Henry (never heard of “Henry” but that is what the bartender told me), white wine, and red wine, plus they opened the beverage section (as listed in the breakfast section). Snacks: I might be missing something, but this is what I saw, Veggie dip, Nacho with salsa, and Snack mix.
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