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7 reviews for Hampton Inn
I guess other reviewers are giving 3 stars for a "3 star hotel" (okay, technically not even 3 stars) but I'm basing my 5 star rating on the overall experience for the price. I stayed here for two nights over Philly Pride this year. Not only was it the cheapest hotel in center city but it was the lowest rate for any hotel chain in the city.
For what I paid, it was great! The lobby was clean, bright, and well appointed and the room was also clean and comfortable. The staff was friendly and helpful and the building overall is modern and well-kept. The breakfast spread and dining room had more variety and was larger than I expected or have seen at othe rhotels. There was nothing uneventful about my stay here, which is a good thing!
So yes, in many ways it is an 'average hotel' but it's an average hotel in a prime location and you can do *a lot* worse. If I can get that same rate again, I would definitely stay here again.
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Hamptons are Hamptons. You can always expect the same level of quality. This one is no different, other than you have to valet your car for $20 a day, or in this case, drive your car to the valet lot so the guy guarding the lot can take the keys from you and park it 5 feet away.
They had a concierge in addition to the front desk, which is what I've found at most Hamptons in big cities with lots of tourist attractions.
The breakfast was not my favorite Hampton breakfast (the eggs were drier than usual), but the room was big and very, very warm, which was somewhat nice considering the cold and drizzling rain outside.
The construction in the lot next door makes it feel a little more isolated, though we still walked to everything we wanted to see in the city so that was nice.
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The hotel was easy to find, clean, and worth it for an overnight stay. Self-Parking was $20 per day. The continental breakfast was sufficient. Front Desk staff was pleasant.
I like staying at hotels and enjoy staying at places such as the Hampton Inn -- and have stayed at several Hampton Inn's on the east coast. This one was nice, the lobby and the rooms were clean -- and the price was right.
There were two things I was disappointed about with this particular location though:
1) The valet parking: They park the cars a fair distance from the hotel and can take upwards of 20 minutes to get your car when you need it.
2) This particular location only has two room configurations -- one with two double beds and one with king beds. Granted that this location is near the convention center and it is probably more tailored to the business traveller, but it would be nice if they had a room which had two queen size beds as well -- especially useful when you are travelling with two small kids.
Otherwise, the buffet breakfast that I have come to expect from places such as the Hampton Inn was edible and there was plenty to eat.
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FYI There are 2 homeless shelters within one block of this hotel as well as at least 2 illegitimate massage parlors. You can take the second as good or bad whatever.
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For a hotel that costs over $250 for a night and milked an extra $20 for valet parking, it was a pretty average hotel. Then again, having a prime location in Center City allows you to really up the tab, because where else are you going to stay? Cherry Hills? (On that note, make sure you book online that you are staying IN Philadelphia as opposed to "Philadelphia Area," which has the potential of keeping you in Cherry Hills, or worse, Camden. Shudder). Otherwise, clean, pretty comfy and I give bonus points for an awesome breakfast that made up for the fact I was rudely awoken by some kind of fire drill that went off at 8:30am. But, if the Best Western down the block hadn't been sold out, I probably would have settled there for the price gouging in Center City.
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Totally normal hotel experience. Clean, friendly service (though there was a weird door man who scared us about where we parked our car). Yummy free breakfast in the morning including strange perfectly round egg discs. Comfy beds.
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