And the reason I say 6 thumbs down is because there are 3 of us in this room blogging about how poor this place is.
To start it all off, when we got here and checked in at the front desk, the lady says, “let’s make sure we have rooms available”. WTF? You had better have our room available seeing as how we had it reserved over a month ago. Then she hands Aaron the receipt and says, “sign on the line…there’s a pen up here somewhere.” Blah! The freaking bellhop had more manners then this twiggy little b!tch, Gracia was her name….and you can be sure she won’t be hearing “Gracias” from me.
On top of the odd smell in this, the “largest hotel in Texas”, the internet is not free. Now mind you, certain places charge for wi-fi and all that, but c’mon, Holiday Inn Express gives free wi-fi! And now, as I’m writing this post, Aaron has had to call 5, YES, 5 times to get the WIRED internet in the room to work. Then they told Aaron that they need a separate credit card for, as he put it in air quotes, “incidentals”. I’ve got an incidental they can charge me for, not really but, ya get my drift.
Oh, and lets not forget the sink in the bathroom or the 1000PSI flushing toilet. You use that and you start hearing a chugging sound, very odd. I dare not sit on the toiler, for I feel that my lower intestines will be some sort of suction danger. This place was established in 1998 but this building looks, smells and feels like it from 1968. The carpet is what’s making it smell, we believe. Right now Aaron is looking for a blacklight to sweep the bed, chairs and desk for fear of…contaminants.
That 70s Phone
I guess in the end I cannot really complain too much since the company is paying for all this, but whoa - suggestion to the Webmaster Jam people, lets do this in Houston, where we have quality hotels, and my house.
And finally, from a graphic design standpoint, what exactly is Adam’s mark? Did the owner have a kid named Adam with an oddly shaped birthmark and he told his graphic designer, “Here, use my kid’s birthmark for the logo and call the hotels, Adam’s Mark”?
Update, we just found out the water is coming out brownish yellow - yay.
If its brown, drink it down
If its black, send it back
September 21st, 2007 at 9:46 pm
[…] That said, I will let you check out the other guys’ blogs: Zak’s take on our stay at the Adam’s Mark, Downtown Dallas and Sal’s Adam’s Mark Downtown Dallas Review […]
September 24th, 2007 at 11:18 am
We did stay at the Adams Mark. I think it’s crazy that a hotel of the price doesn’t have free wi-fi in the rooms. I did briefly notice the brown water, but I tried to just take quick showers in the morning. I found it weird that my room had a huge bathroom. The bathroom was nearly the same size of the sleeping area. I found it to be a very odd layout.
– Jeremy
September 24th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I stayed at the Adams Mark too. For the amenities within the hotel the price was high. Unfortunately there is this strange notion within the hotel community that these older more traditional hotels don’t cater to the business professionals and hence charge for Internet access.
Oddly enough though, the rooms in the North Tower apparently are the bad ones. We hung out with the David from Opera, who had gotten a room in the South Tower. He said that the South Tower was recently redecorated and that he had WiFi in his room, he wasn’t sure whether or not it was free.
And yup, I had brown water for a little bit there on Friday.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:08 am
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