We stayed for a night with the kids while traveling through Philly. Bottom line, pick a different location. The hotel is wide open, meaning anyone can come and go. The registration desk on the 2nd floor ensures anyone can enter the hotel, take the elevator and bypass check in. The rooms are way past due for an upgrade- old mattresses, stained carpet and furniture, non-functional closet doors and water damage under the sinks. We even took the kids to the pool, and couldn't see to the bottom it was so murky.

It's also directly on the Septa line, which blows its horn the entire way past the hotel. Wake up call is at 5:30 as the trains start running frequently, and that goes until midnight.

Traveled outside of Philly for a business trip, stayed at this hotel for one night. Overall the staff was very welcoming and helpful. You do have to pay for parking, which was a surprise. I think it is $13 a day, which is not terrible.

The rooms feel like small studio apartments that are very well designed. There is a full kitchen with small cook top, microwave and refrigerator. There is a 2 person dining table, large sofa and a very convenient desk. I did have to work from the hotel room and it was very comfortable.

There is a free continental breakfast offered each morning, which was good.

The hotel does have an indoor pool and gym, but I did not have time to enjoy these amenities.

My only complaints was that you can hear trains running by and honking a horn almost every 30 minutes on very nearby train tracks. There was randomly an exterior light fixture aimed directly into my hotel window and the blackout shades were not able to completely block out the light. This could have been the room I happen to be assigned to.

The hotel was nice enough, they have a bar and the breakfast looked decent for the price point. Unfortunately, the heat didn't work properly in either of my rooms. The first room they put me in couldn't get above 62 degrees. I needed to talk 3 staff members before someone took a look at it. I specifically requested a call when it was fixed so I knew it was taken care of. I never got a call and when I got back the unit was off. The same thing happened at the second room (thank god that room could get to 67). Again needed to talk to multiple people, again the unit was off when I got back. From my interactions with staff I can only assume they knew about the issue and had either chosen to do nothing or were told to do nothing.