Average but excellent for the price. I attended a large convention and the organizers listed all sorts of hotel options, all in the $200 plus range. All far from the convention. This place is walkable to the McCormick place. I would not walk at night. 3 minutes from the Metro. And, best of all right in the middle of a number of excellent restaurants. Mostly Chinese, but the type of places that locals line up for. The rooms are clean and adequate. Nothing grand. More like a dormitory at a college. But totally ok. Internet access is free and have terminals downstairs. Also a lunch room with microwave. Front desk are not the most helpful or polished in town. But, for the price this is a good place to stay. Especially if you are on your feet all day at the McCormick Place for an exhibition.

This hotel was absolutely disgusting. Non-smoking rooms reeked of smoke. Front desk was unhelpful (didn't have a firm grasp of English). In particular, the manager was outright rude. I had an incredibly negative experience. I left as it was unclean and disgusting and found another hotel. Do not make the mistake I made and make reservations on Orbitz as you will get charged for one night. I was there for 10 or 15 minutes and decided it was just not worth it and the hotel charged me for a night's stay and would not refund my money. Spend $50 more and go to some place decent. Stay away from this place.

It was what I expected for the price. The room was small but clean. The front desk was not very helpful but did hold on to a few items that I accidentally left behind until I was able to return later that night to pick them up. The parking was about a 2 blocks away from the hotel and a homeless man followed us into the hotel from the corner. I paid $72 for one night and I probably will not stay there again. One convenience was that the train was so close.

I came by in Sept 2006 for a conference with the plan to stay a few more days to see the sights. No way I could afford the $200/night prices of the typical downtown place for five nights...and that was discounted conference rate! The total would've been more than my monthly rent at that point and I live in LA! But then I found this gem in Chinatown at $55/night for a double! What a find! And correct me if I'm wrong, but there is really nothing downtown in the price range between this place and the $200/night places.

This is a basic hotel. No frills. You get a nice clean bedroom with a nice clean bed and a nice clean spare bathroom. The decor is uninspiring. There is no view. BUT what I really appreciated was that the walls were quite thick. The rooms were quiet, and I slept soundly at night, which is all I really need. It felt private. The water was hot enough. The rooms were warm enough. Not the most romantic of lighting, but I could study. Rooms were safe, secure, and our luggage was undisturbed.

The hotel is located in Chinatown. It has restaurants open late and there is dimsum in the restaurants on the weekends. There are panhandlers, but that's a fact of Chinatown and Chicago, not the fault of the hotel. They do lock the hotel at night for security purposes, but you can wake the guy behind the counter up and he'll let you in. The hotel is two blocks from the metro station and those two blocks are no worse (and no better) than any downtown Chicago block at 2am.

The place is a great value for its location. Sure, you could have all the amenities of a fancy hotel, if you can afford it. Sure you could have a slightly better hotel, Holiday Inn, say, at about $100/night, if you're willing to commute in from the 'burbs or the airport each day. But this place is designed for, and probably run by, the kind of people like my parents: old-school Chinese immigrants who just want the necessities. We don't need an elevator, we can walk. Why does each room need it's own hair dryer and ironing board and terrace and wet bar and whatnot? What a waste, they would say. We should just share those things. And you can get all of those things (kitchen stuff, hair dryer, ironing board) from the front desk. My parents used to bring along their own hotpot on trips to cook their own meals. That's how cheap they were (and still are). For me, that's a bit too much, but it's that kind of simple life that this hotel caters to. And hey, isn't it time we stopped buying magazines telling us how to live a simple life and actually started living one?

Okay, I digress. This hotel is simply a great value. And it's online!

Jenny K, Los Angeles, CA