Frommer's Review
This is the newest hotel to be built on the river, and its location makes you wonder why someone waited so long to build here. Fronting the property is a massive cypress tree crowning a small circle of land that juts out into the river.
The building is attractive. The architecture shows what is by now a familiar model -- rooms surrounding a soaring atrium. Glass elevators take you up the 12 stories to the rooms, all of them suites. The first thing you see upon entering a suite is a sitting room of good size. It's furnished in more traditional style than the common areas of the hotel, with Southwestern accents. Both the furniture and the lighting are more comfortable than most of the hotels in this category. The bathroom is attractive and ample, but nothing special for this category of hotel. The next door leads to the bedroom, which comes with either a river or a city view. The best river views are down low, at level with the cypress trees, and the best city views are up high. All rooms are nonsmoking. Each comes with either a king-size or two double beds.
Hotel operations are handled by Benchmark, which in my experience does a commendable job at providing services and running properties. But this could change -- new hotels often will hire a professional management company until they feel capable of running the place. Also highly changeable are the rates and policies, which are always fluid during the first two years of a hotel's existence. But, all things remaining the same, I would prefer staying here to the Westin, next door. The matter would depend largely on the rates.
Facilities:
Restaurant; bar; outdoor heated pool; Jacuzzi; gym; spa; concierge; business center; room service until 10pm; laundry/dry cleaning
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without
notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before
planning your trip.
