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The pool is nice, the service was good, the location is ok. Way too loud and I was told that I should have expected the noisy drunk people outside my door for 2 hours every morning when the bars let out because it's the weekend. I wouldn't stay here unless you like frat parties.

Woke up at 2 am to find the hallway full of cops evicting the couple opposite our room. Manager wasn't very apologetic for the disturbance.

It was extremely loud with guests partying until all hours and loudness outside.

The Omni is in an excellent location! Concierge staff and bellmen are terribly rude. They were having personal conversations and disregarded guests. The double beds were not queen size beds so they're small and uncodortable.

Miguel Dubose was very accommodating when I called needing to let my fiancé check in before I myself was able to arrive. Our cleaning lady was very friendly and when I asked for a fan for the room she made it happen. Our server Fransico was very personable and friendly. Hmmm where do I start? Pictures online associated with the Omni downtown are pretty deceiving. The television in our room had a terrible picture. None of the hdmi ports worked or would even register that anything had been plugged into them. The AC in our room was useless. The coldest the room would get was 74 degrees. The unit would allow you to go as low as 60 degrees but the room never got below 74 and that was at 2-4am by the time it would cool to 74. We couldn't sleep or was so hot in the room. I called the front desk twice and they told me they would send an engineer to access the problem. He never arrived. Once I asked our cleaning lady she brought me a small fan. But at that point something was better than nothing. We could hear the entire conversation of the guests in the room next to us. The mattress are quite firm. Not that big of a deal. But the fact of not being able to sleep due to being sweaty and sticky was very annoying. Not once did anyone ask us if we would like to move to a different room. Maybe one where the AC actually worked worth a flip. The safe in our room was malfunicationing and would not open. Spent ten minutes trying to get into our room safe to remove my belongings. We live in Dallas and have never had an issue at the omni Dallas. But I will say that I will not stay at the omni in Austin again!

Location was good. A walk to downtown and south congress. Tv was broken, couldn't watch it. The bathroom was old feeling. Not what you would expect for $300/night.

Room was filthy when we first came in, beer bottle caps on the floor, bathroom amenities were all used half empty bottles ( lotions, shampoo and conditioner ).

We were bump We were bumped from our paid booking. Wanted two beds. 60 year old had to sleep on roll away. Not happy. On the bright side the room was clean and nice lobby.

Hotel was clean and staff friendly The rooms and bathrooms are tired and outdated.

The best thing about the hotel is that it had a clean, comfortable bed. Next would be proximity to 6th street... a short drivable distance. Plenty of things to dislike about this hotel. I'll start with the most obvious. This hotel is extremely outdated and could use a ton of renovations. The "bar" is a joke and the restaurant looked like an old Dennys. There's no way I'd ever have a reception here... very old and unflattering ball rooms if you can call them that. I personally wouldn't even hold a conference there. Bathrooms were outdated, pool was ok, jacuzzi is the size of my home tub... no thanks. It also had some weird foamy substance floating at the top which totally squashed any desire I had to swim. All in all, pretty disappointing for the money.

My prepaid room wasn't available when I arrived. The night manager gave me a voucher for a less expensive hotel nearby and the business card of a manager that I could talk to later. Really poor way to treat a guest who had already paid and had a room gurantee. And, I never got a refund for my prepaid room.

Pros: - Great first impression with the lobby and facility appearance - The heated pool that is both outside and inside is awesome, along with the hot tub, sauna, and robes waiting for u in the rooms. Cons: - Day 1 I was staying in a premium room, cuddling with my girlfriend and saw a bug crawling in and out of the fire alarm (I've never told my gf this bc she woulda been freaked out and I woulda lost romance points, and she woulda been mad at me if she finds out I didn't tell her). And I couldn't get up to kill it without her noticing bc she was laying on me. - Day 2 I requested a standard room to "save a couple bucks" (get out of the room with bugs), and the next morning around 8am my gf and I were both naked in bed (I was already awake) and someone was talking to a friend, opened our door without knocking, noticed we were in there, then they stopped talking and quickly left. (Thank goodness my gf is a heavy sleeper!) I spoke with the manager about this and he checked who came into the room and he told me it was just the cleaning people. I honestly was expecting some kind of offer of a discount on my stays, or some kind of special discount on any future stay, but I got nothing. I liked the pool and stuff, but the hotel basics that were kinda messed up (for me) when it comes to comfort, were a little disappointing. If you aren't scared of the bug thing, or the random people coming into your room without notice then u'll be fine.

They deleted my cc on file and charged my debit card twice

The lady who ran the breakfast was very nice and accommodating I got this room as a "deal" for 125 because it had good reviews. There was hair in the bathtub, food on the cutting board, and a dirty towel folded near the sink. There were appliances, but they were extremely old and yellowed with age, and the carpet was just disgusting. I literally did not walk around barefoot the entire time I was there. The bed was comfy, but there were only sheets on the bed and no blanket, and the pillows were very uncomfortable. I resigned to just deal with it, as I was only there for the night and didn't want the inconvenience of switching rooms when it was probably just as poorly cleaned, but the extra charges put me over the edge. I am more than familiar with having a card kept on file for incidentals, but this place places a $100 hold on your account for 4+ days. It may be in the terms somewhere, but it wasn't stated to me ahead of time, and with how awful the room was to begin with, I am annoyed to say the least. Don't waste your money.

The only 2 things I liked were: 1) Very friendly staff during the daytime (not so much at night time) 2) Great breakfast buffet Many things I didn't like: 1) Room was very dirty, in need of thorough cleaning 2) Room was very damaged, in need of repair 3) Room was very old and dingy, in need of remodeling 4) Room had terrible lighting 5) Room had very inaccessible power outlets 6) Night staff was very curt (day staff was excellent though) 7) There were a couple power outages during my stay (i will reserve partial judgement on this one item, as I understand it might not have been completely in the hotel's control) 8) There were several internet outages and intermittent interruptions in service throughout my stay. This was extremely frustrating as I had important work to do over the internet and this made it very difficult and at times impossible. 9) The guests above me were making crazy noise at all hours of the night. i mean as late as 4am. I am not usually someone to complain about noise, but this was seriously like stomping and jumping and slamming constantly through the night. I asked the front desk to do something about it, but it didn't seem to stop the problem.

The food was good, glass elevator was quaint and location convenient. Sleeping on a cot. Being lied to about keys to concierge lounge. Dirty pool and spa. Building was old.

The location and staff are great. The facilities are under construction that results in an annoyance and hit and miss with rooms and floors.

The staff were friendly and accommodating. It's far from downtown Austin. You will need to rent a car. Certain areas of the hotel were underconstruction.