Whitehall Hotel Chicago

The hotels I looked up online for Chicago downtown were all about $300-400 per night, very expensive. I booked most hotels using Expedia on this trip, but somehow by shopping around, I found the web site Venere.com, and they had the same hotel for only a little over 200 per night, so that's where we ended up.

It has a great location, convenient to shopping and restaurants. The bed was very comfortable with lots of nice pillows and fluffy down comforter. The room was a good size too, we got a corner room, so the TV was at an old place. The carpet however looked a bit used and the bathroom can use some updating. But for the "bargain" price, I suppose that's not too bad.

Don't order room service breakfast here though. Boy, at more than $40 for 2 people, I did not even get my croissants (they ran out, what kind of story was that?) for my continental breakfast. Yeah, more than $40 for 2 continental breakfasts, that's pretty ridicious. We should have walked to Starbucks like we did the first morning.

The room has ethernet connection, no wireless. About $10 per 24 hours which is average for most hotels we stayed at (except for the free ones). The business center charged by the quarter-hour ($5.95 per 15 minutes), and it cost 50 cents to print each page.