Galt House Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham

Room was clean and nice, checkin and checkout were very quick and painless. Staff were polite, but couldn't actually do anything to help w/ construction issues.

I get that they were doing renovations... But the room next to mine was being reno'd every day from 9am on, while I was trying to sleep in on vacation. The jackhammer in the garage was loud enough to make me worry about hearing damage, all the workers were wearing hearing protection but I had to roll my luggage through it a few times when leaving. The elevators were half-broken the whole time. One set opened every other floor for no reason, the other set wouldn't go to the ground floor. They had signs up, but unsurprisingly no reduction in rates. I called the front desk for a boxfan or white noise generator to help drown out the construction noise, but they didn't have any. If you're doing reno, you close off a whole floor and take care of business 1 floor at a time. Doing renovations next to occupied rooms is either poor planning or just outright greed to keep as many rooms filled as possible. Either way, I'm not coming back to this property.

Location Many options in hotel for food

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We stayed in the Revue (west) Tower, on 2 separate occasions (the latter as a last minute booking when our flight was canceled). The hotel is undergoing major renovations, and it seemed just about all of the restaurants/bars were closed (except for Al J's in the conservatory -- ie, bridge -- in between the 2 towers); despite the scaffolding and closures, this did not really affect our stay and I would not consider it a reason to avoid the property. The plus side is that the rooms were just renovated. Large, modern, muted colors, geometric patterned carpeting on the floors, with bed spreads with a stirrup design, the new decor pays homage to the derby and the hotel's official status for the races. The view out of the window was that of the Ohio River (I think just about all of the rooms get a river view, because of the positioning of the towers). The large bathroom features a double sink for couples to get ready, and also has plenty of hanging bars/hooks smartly positioned for used towels (something too many hotels seem to neglect in my opinion). The location is perfect -- midway between Whisky Row and the restaurants/sights of Main St.

The hotel is perfectly fine for a weekend stay, but not quite as lux as befitting its history -- the toiletries were of a generic brand (ones that I've seen at another nondescript hotel in Europe), no mini fridge or bar in room, no extra seating (except for the 1 desk chair), no complimentary water. The only glassware supplied were 2 thin plastic cups, wrapped in protective covers.

Everything was great, but bed linens were not very soft especially for a higher end hotel.