The Club Quarters Chicago

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Staying in Chicago can be daunting. Between meals, entertainment and transportation costs can rack up fast. Choose the wrong hotel and you’ll see basic amenities added to the bill as well.  Which makes staying at the Club Quarters, with it’s focus on service and quality, a terrific value.

Beginning with its great location on Wacker, close to Millennium Park, the Chicago River and the Miracle Mile, staying at the Club Quarters puts you within walking distance of major shopping, restaurant and bar districts. If ride-sharing is more your thing, no worries. The hotel accommodates drivers easily.  

The front desk staff are professional and helpful. Guests are served quickly and efficiently. Pay particular attention to the tidbits of advice they give.  They know what you need before you do.

The same can be said for the awesome housekeeping and maintenance departments.  Friendly and approachable, they take pride in their work. If they know you are in a suite or have many people in your party, they will go out of their way to make sure you have everything you need for an enjoyable stay.

With my children tagging along during my stay, both serial showerers, we never ran out of fresh towels. That never happens.  It’s practically a sign of the apocalypse. But those housekeepers kept up with them every day for a week, collecting towels and running new ones up several times a day, often without being asked. My kids were equally impressed and now think that being asked to do this for themselves at home is unreasonable.

Thanks, ladies!

Each room is outfitted with a standard k-cup style coffee pot, smart TV and a hotel-style bathroom. But who doesn’t like a shower that doesn’t require a learning curve? There are also water bottle stations located by each floor’s elevators and reusable bottles. Laundry facilities and vending machines are on the lower floors.

Guests should know room temperatures cannot be controlled individually.  The hotel’s heating is operated by a boiler system which leaves internal climate up to nature and thermodynamics. It one of the charms that goes along with being an older hotel in an area developed in another time. Keeping the room warm enough won’t be a problem-even if you are staying in the middle of winter like we did. I found the steady seventy-five degrees difficult to sleep in. But maintenance will quickly run you up a fan if you ask and that fixed the problem for us.

The overall hotel environment is surprisingly hushed. In spite of the number staying at the hotel, I never heard a dog and rarely noise from other guests. It’s easy to find peace and quiet if that’s what you are looking for.

I cannot say enough about the business room/guest lobby on the second floor! It has everything a student or business traveler could ever want. In addition to two enclosed conference rooms, public restrooms, cubicles, café tables and a limitless number of free electrical outlets, the space boasts a seating area with a fireplace and another smart TV.

And my favorite hotel feature and newest member of my personal wish list: an automated coffee and cappuccino maker. That baby easily satisfied all my coffee needs my entire stay. With the price of specialty coffee downtown, I easily saved a couple hundred bucks.

We’ll talk about my coffee addiction later. This is a hotel review, remember?

The price of a suite was a little on the costlier side, but competitive with other area locales.  And with the ability to score a latte at three in the morning? It was priceless!

My takeaway: pack a book and a cozy blanket. This is the closest to a sleepover at Starbucks you are going to get!

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