The room was smaller and more out dated than my dorm room from 15 years ago. Our room was not ready on time. I was sharing with a co-worker and we had to rearrange the TWIN beds so I wouldn't have to jump over her bed to get to the restroom. Everything in the room was old and worn.

Using Trip Advisor, I booked my stay at Club Quarters thru hotels.com. It was $40 less per night than any of the other hotels I was considering and close enough to walk to my business meeting location.

I was able to take the Metro Orange line from Midway to the Loop, exiting on Quincy. The hotel is 3 blocks away, saving time and cab fare.

A small lobby and needing a room key to access the elevator contributed to both the private club feel and a sense of safety. As noted in the other reviews, the room is quite small, but contained all the essentials-a comfortable bed, a work desk, free internet access, cable TV. Same for the bathroom-small but efficient and with all the essentials.

I ordered dinner in from the restaurant downstairs-The Elephant & Castle. Good fish & chips that were delivered within 15 minutes of ordering, piping hot.

Starbucks is on the corner, although the hotel has complimentary coffee in the lobby in the morning. 7-11 is across the street.

Great location, good prices, no complaints.

Last week, I attended a national conference in Chicago. The organisation that puts on the conference was supposed to obtain a hotel reservation for me at any one of a number of places, at its reduced, negotiated rate. This never happened. So at the last minute I was forced to look on my own. If you've been pricing downtown Chicago hotels then you know the horror I discovered.

After calling a handful of the hotels on my conference list and being told that a room would cost, at the least, twice what the conference rate would have been I went to the on-line services.

There really wasn't anything downtown offered except the Club Quarters. I read through some of the poorer reviews and most seemed to settle on the fact that the rooms are very small. There were some pictures posted and these seemed to bear out the descriptions.

But I was to be there on a conference and had a good schedule of activities planned out in the evenings, so who needs a big room? The room was exactly as the posted photos indicated. The bathroom was very clean and I had the exact bed spread in the photo. If you've stayed in mid priced European hotels then the room will not seem too small.

Service workers in Chicago - in general - are not friendly. The counter staff here are a bit better than average. But the cleaning staff and the restaurant staff are very nice and helpful. The size of the room helps in keeping it cool, which was nice to come back to after trapsing around downtown Chicago in July. The door staff seemed to be attentive of people coming and going and there is an added safety feature of needing a room key to use the elevator. I did not order food, but there are four different restaurants with menus posted in the room that will deliver to the hotel.

There is no garage. I don't mention this as a criticism, only as a comment. The hotel is so nicely located that if you are at all ambulatory, you could stay here and never need a car. The Red Line CTA station is only a few blocks away and from there you can come in from the airport and get to almost anywhere. I could take it to my conference, to blues clubs, restaurants, and even Wrigley Field to catch a Cubs game.

At half the price of the "cheaper" downtown hotels, next time I will save myself some hassle trying to get the conference hotels and look for a CQ deal.

I stayed here one night on a business trip in May. From the airport, we took the El which made for a long trip. The walk is nice from El station to the hotel. The lobby is gorgeous, especially the lounge and the pub that is attached. However, the room was no bigger than a closet. There was barely room to move and the lights did not work. Because I was exhausted from the business meetings, I settled to just turn on the bathroom light to go through my things. Had my husband come with me, there would not have been enough room for the two of us in the room. You could only access the bed from one side and the T.V. was hanging over the desk, so only one person could see it. The air conditioner ran all night, although I had turned it off, and there was a strange trickling noise coming through the vent as I tried to sleep. On the bright side, the bed was very comfortable with nice pillows and soft sheets.
In the end, I don't think I would stay here again, unless I knew I could get a bigger room!