A lot of locals will tell you that this is a really nice hotel, but most locals have never stayed here because, well, why would they.
You would be better off staying a mile or two further north if you want to be able to walk to any restaurants or bars. Housekeeping didn't manage to locate our room the entire 3 nights we spent here.

Overall the hotel was sub-par. The location was about the only redeeming quality. The rooms were old, tired and in need of updating. Even though they probably weren't dirty, they were so worn out that they appeared grimy. The bedspread was actually stained, so it immediately went on the floor. The lighting made the room look dark, the decorations were sterile, and when you add in the rather small, boxy shape, and you get the feel you are stuck in a basement room. Paying for parking only added insult to injury. My wife and I stayed here overnight since Buffalo was about the half-way point on our trip to the Adirondacks. I would not choose this hotel again.

This hotel was ok at best..

Good:
-location is great.. ten min walk to sabres game you're right there in the city.
-restaurant/bar in hotel.. Food was pretty good service was a little slow but we were there early could have just been a timing thing.

Bad:
-Pay for parking ($10 a night)
-For some reason they have the slowest check in/out lines ever and woman behind the desk was kind of rude.
-Place is a little dated but its not awful.
-Found two used q-tips in the corner of my room.. Yuck.
-Here was the worst part... They have a big banquet hall there where they host parties. At the time of our trip there was a huge party there of college age kids and a good number had rooms in the hotel. We got back from the game there was puke in the elevator. At 2am someone in the party pulled the fire alarm and the hotel was evacuated. The whole night the kids were running around the hotel yelling waking us up constantly. At 4:15 it sounded like there was 15 people talking loudly in the hallway/elevator area I called up the front desk and they said they'd handle it.. 4:30 they were still there and I called again they said sorry we've had multiple fights at the party and the security is busy there.. So finally I just went outside and told them to shut up its almost 5am and they finally left.

New management and money needs to be invested into this hotel or it will continue to be mediocre at best.. At the end of the day I would probably stay there again if I had a good deal I'm not too picky when I'm only looking for a place to rest my head.

Thankfully only spent one night here on Saturday night after going to the Sabres game. Early check in not available and, in a somewhat short tone, the clerk said to come back after 3pm. Was able to get a room around 230, after waiting about 15 minutes in line for the lone clerk working the desk. Coming back down to go over to the arena, the line up to check in was almost out the door by 4pm.

After the game and some food and drinks with friends, came back to the room only to hear the fire alarm going off around 1230am. It turned out to be a false alarm.

After falling alseep, we were woken up around 230am by what could only be categorized as a crowd of unruly, loud, obnoxious young adults yelling, possibly wrestling, banging around out in the hallway and in their rooms, which where near us. This went on for at least half an hour so we decided to call the hotel security from the phone in our room to send someone up. The call went unanswered as did our attempt to even reach someone at the front desk. By then, another guest, clearly upset, had gone out in the hallway to confront this group. They did quiet down for awhile but they came and went a few more times throughout the night so we never ever got a decent few hours of sleep. We have never come across a situation like this in all our hotel visits around the globe.

We brought the matter up with the front desk when we checked out this morning and all clerk responded with was a brief, and not so sincere "sorry about that".

The room itself was only what I would categorize as "marginally ok". It was fairly clean and not as bad as I was expecting based on other reviews. We had to run the tap in the bathroom for about 3-4 minutes to get any hot water. The heating system was a little bizarre...it looked to work on some sort of motion sensor system, so if nobody was in the room, it was cold when we returned.

Defintely not a 3 star hotel and I will be avoiding this one in any future trips to Buffalo.