The hotel was great. Each room was like a small apartment with a living room, full kitchen and separate bedroom, even in the smallest, queen bed option. The hotel restaurant was quite nice and there was a small brewery in the front of the hotel. The shopping in the hotel was OK... There was actually some better shopping about two blocks away. The rest of the immediate area was OK, great dinner across the street and an Italian restaurant 2 blocks down, however, there were also a lot of empty/abandoned storefronts in the area.