Aloft Arundel Mills
http://www.aloftarundelmills.com/
7520 Teague Road
Hanover, MD 21076
(443) 577-0077
Blech.
I didn't think to check Yelp before booking an allegedly upscale hotel. I won't be making that mistake again.
This
hotel was designed by people who never stay there. I get the movement
to smaller (European-style) rooms, but that doesn't mean you can just
rip the door off the bathroom and call it Euro-style. Seriously! There
was no door between the room and the sinks. There was a sliding door
between the sinks and the toilet and shower, but it was completely
inadequate at blocking odors and sounds. Add to that the light leaking
into the bedroom from the sink area and you've got the holy triumvirate
of bathroom occurrences right in the main room.
There were other
design problems. Between the concrete floors and the metal doors on the
one hand and the colors which were clearly picked by a recent Parsons
grad it was unclear what this hotel was trying to be. I will say that
in some of the rooms the window looks directly into the window of the
elevator lobby and vice versa. If you find yourself in this
establishment and value your privacy at all don't take a room ending in
26.
Cleanliness was an issue. There were unidentified stains
on the sliding door to the toilet area, on the main door, next to one
side of the bed and perhaps other areas that I didn't want to look for.
Linens and towels were clean, though, so there is that.
I
can't really evaluate the bar area because we were there on Christmas
Eve and that's an unfair day to test someplace like that.
The
staff was helpful and cheery. The nice lady at the front desk couldn't
have been nicer about a) changing my room from the aforementioned 26
series and b) informing me that no, unlike every other hotel on the
planet, there were not ice machines on the floors but if I wanted to
come downstairs I could get some there.
Saving this review from "run away!" are the shower, which is adequately large, had sufficient water
heat and pressure and one of those rain-style shower heads and the bed,
which was king-sized and reasonably comfortable.
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