I stayed at the Staybridge suites for 2 nights after Thanksgiving. It was just as I expected -- still new, clean, comfortable, well appointed and trouble free.
My room was a small efficiency studio. It had a kitchenette (2 burner stove and a nuke, but without a real oven, sink with disposal, and full size dishwasher) with full utensils, pots and pans, a toaster, and a coffee maker. There was a comfortable queen size bed, with OK pillows (I'm very persnickety about pillows, so I always bring my own anyway). There was an adequately sized desk and various other little tables, and a small sofa. There was also a nice large flat screen LCD TV with a ton of channels. The bathroom was fine, with a nice massaging shower head and curved curtain rod. Everything was clean. If I had next door neighbors, I never heard them.
The only feature that left something to be desired, was the blackout curtains, which allowed bits of light to peek through in the morning. I'm a light sleeper and I like a very dark room. I imagine they are fine for most people, but for me they definitely weren't Hilton dark (IMO, Hiltons have the best blackout curtains in the industry).
There is free breakfast until 10:30 am. I only went the last morning of my stay. Had I known it was so good, I would have gone the first morning as well. There were: eggs, sausage, make-your-own waffles, fresh and canned fruit, three juices, a few different kinds of coffee, oatmeal and assorted cold cereals, yogurt, muffins, pastry, bagels and other toastables, and I'm sure I'm omitting plenty. It was one of the most extensive hotel free breakfast buffets I've ever seen. It added significant value to the already reasonable rates. Apparently, there are evening buffets Tuesday through Thursday as well.
Check in was a breeze. The staff were always pleasant and helpful. When I asked for a 2 pm checkout, I was told I could only get a 1 pm checkout. Then at about 11 am, someone from the front desk called to say that I could stay until 2 pm after all. It was greatly appreciated, and was the kind of attention to detail that surely would have been overlooked in most full service hotels.
Another review mentioned power surges, but I experienced no power related troubles. I always travel with a surge protecting power strip for my laptop, but its fuse never tripped.
The only trouble I experienced was that the free high speed internet was anything but high speed. The internet sometimes cut out intermittently, even though the hotel was nowhere close to capacity occupancy. I ran speed tests and got the same slow speed (120 kbps down/120 kbps up) on both the wired and the wi-fi networks. That's only about 2.5 times the speed of dial-up, and pages take seemingly forever to load. In order to be competitive with other area hotels, they should spring for a little more bandwith.
For those who don't have a computer with them, there are two computers in the business center downstairs which can be used for free, but you may have to wait your turn with a few game playing kids. I didn't print anything, but I was told that printing is free as well.
All in all, this hotel is a real gem for the budget traveller who doesn't want "budget" accommodations. I got a good rate on priceline. However when I checked their website, I found their rate of $73 to be very reasonable for a place like this. These days, I don't think you can do better in the Sacramento area. I'm staying there again next weekend and looking forward to it.
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