“A Hotel For Young People Who Sleep With Noise-Canceling Headphones”
The staff at Element were friendly and helpful, and the hotel feels relatively new, aimed mainly at a younger crowd. The room was clean and the breakfast was reasonably good and varied. The laundry room has 3 washers and 3 dryers and can be paid for by credit card without having to load another app. However, you have to pay extra for parking via an app, which is not fun for techno-averse older folks like myself. The room has insufficient lighting at night and a considerable sill between the carpet and the non-carpeted area that is a hazard. There are design flaws – for example, if the closet wall had been built out another two to three inches, the luggage rack would fit into the hanging area without obstructing much of it. But the real problem with Element was noise. My room had a connecting door to another room and the door was not sound‑insulated at all. A young businessman in the room next door was constantly on his phone during the late afternoon, and I could hear pretty much every word. When I returned from dinner with friends at 10 pm, he had a loud adventure movie on his TV. At 11:15 I knocked loudly on the connecting door and politely informed him that “we” were trying to sleep. Then he either turned off the TV or used headphones, and I could indeed sleep. A door between rooms that lets every noise through is unacceptable.
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