Stay Report: Houston Marriott West Loop by The Galleria
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I have been to Houston many times and my favorite place to stay is in The Galleria area. This area is close to many restaurants, shops, and services and has a wide selections of hotels. I have stayed in many of them (you can see the reviews on my blog) and am still trying to find the best one. I recently traveled to Houston and stayed at the Houston Marriott West Loop. I had previously stayed here, in May 2015, and had a pretty decent stay so decided to book the hotel again.
The hotel itself is on the backside of the Galleria, faces the highway, and shares its space with an office building. There is a parking garage attached to the hotel, and walking from the garage entrance to the lobby is the only time you actually see the office building. The entrance to the hotel in the parking garage is on the 2nd floor, and from here you can either walk down the stairs or take the elevator to the first floor where you walk past the meeting rooms into a hallway. This hallway connects the hotel with the office space so you have to turn right to enter into the hotel. As you enter into the hotel, you pass the restaurant, the bar, a sitting area, and the stairs to the gym before getting to the check-in desks. Check-in was fairly quick and efficient, I received my key and proceeded to the elevator to go up to my room.
The room itself was a decent size - smaller than the Westin rooms but bigger than other hotels - as
was a standard hotel room. As you entered, on the left side was the closet while on the right was the bathroom. The closet contained hangers, a shelf for storage, and the iron and ironing board. The bathroom contained a sink, a toilet, and shower tub - while it was a standard bathroom, the bathroom toiletries that Marriott provides are really nice. The hallway also contained a little nook, next to the closet, which housed the fridge on the bottom and the coffee maker on top. Further into the room, the beds were on the right hand side with one table in between. The beds were comfortable enough and provided a decent night's sleep. Across from the beds was a chest with drawers on the bottom and a TV on top. The top of the chest was connected and led into the desk, and against the wall of the desk was the panel to connect multiple devices and electronics to the TV. There were also plugs available in this outlet to charge your devices. There was a large window which provided nice natural light but the view was very bad (either of a highway or parking garage). In between the beds and the window were sitting chairs and some additional free space to place your luggage or the ironing board. Overall, it was spacious hotel room with decent beds and plugs throughout the room (there were also plugs near the beds as well).
As the hotel is full service, there are many amenities for the guests. These include a gym, a pool, a washer and dryer, a restaurant, a bar, parking garage, meeting rooms, a business center, and wifi. The wifi was complimentary for Marriott Rewards members and allowed upto 6 devices to be connected at no charge (which is great as others cap it at 4 devices). The speed and connectivity were decent for emails and videos. The gym is nice and a decent size and is located next to the pool and washer/dryer. While all of these are connected, their location is a bit odd; they are located on the 2nd floor right across from hotel rooms. The gym is accessible 24hrs so if your room is right in front of the gym, you could potentially hear noise throughout the night. Also, the pool is an indoor pool located on the 2nd floor next to an open meeting area/hall and the entrance to this is either from the elevator on the 2nd floor or through the stairs on the 1st floor - again an odd layout. If you walk down the stairs from the pool and hall, you are in the lobby where the restaurant, bar, and 'business center' are located. If you leave the lobby of the hotel and go through walkway to the office building, this is where the meeting rooms are located and you walk past the meeting rooms to get to the parking garage. While all the amenities are really nice and spacious, the layout is a bit strange.
Overall, it was a nice stay at the Marriott West Loop by the Galleria. The rooms are spacious, their somewhat updated, and the fitness center is nice. The negatives are the odd layout of the hotel, the long walk from the parking garage to the hotel lobby, and the high price for parking ($24/night for self-parking and the spots are limited).
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