I really loved staying here. It has a ton of personality, especially by Best Western standards. The…read moredrawbacks are fairly slight. Round up to four stars if you're fairly easy to please about hotels.
What you get: Great downtown location. Half a block from the train station.
Cool older construction; maybe genuinely historical construction, of the main facade building. Pass through the lobby and there's much modern construction behind that, where most of the rooms are (though some are in the attractive facade building).
Cool atrium area with a really good continental breakfast. Enormous high glass ceiling. Full bar. Lots of corny potted plants. They have cool dances for older folks here on the weekends. It's actually a nice setting, though the entertainment choices skew a bit geriatric.
Big, comfortable rooms with gigantic eurotubs that you can soak in all day. Carpets are pretty thrashed though.
Reasonable rates.
Cool Malt Whisky Society attached. If you're a member, you can buy litres of interesting custom single malts with really funny names. Very high-end stuff, priced accordingly. Evidently there's a truly spectacular scotch festival here at some point during the year--one of the best in the world, if I understand it correctly.
Very friendly and nice staff.
From a value standpoint, it's easy to look past the basic nature of the building and the dirty carpets and push this to four stars, no problem.