The Guild is certainly an interesting place to stay and an interesting experience. In short, you are essentially renting a small apartment or a loft and you are close to a lot of neat things in Dallas, and on the flip side, it is a very unorthodox and somewhat confusing check-in process that may worry first timers to The Guild.
So let's go over the bad/odd first. Why? Because it is a short list. The check-in is very unusual. I booked on-line. It requires uploading your driver's license and ID proof, kind of like what you wouls do if you went to an AirBnB place. You are going to be dealing with "staff" via text. They text you the day of your stay and you'll get the code to get into the building. If you have questions, you text them. To their credit, The Guild staff responds promptly.
To help first timers, you park in The Guild's parking garage. You'll be texted and emailed the code to get into the door in the garage and another code for the door to your room. You go into your room and get a key card. The key card is for the garage so you can move your cae to the guest parking area underground. Then you take an elevator back up to your room. It is really that easy, but not knowing what to expect up front can be daunting.
The other two knocks are this: there was construction going on to the pool area, but the contractors had huge garbage storage boxes, so when we went to the balcony, it looked really bad. My girlfriend waa delighted to see a recors player in the room with a small selection of records, but the records were in poor condition and skipped when played.
Beyond that, this place is awesome. We had an entire kitchen to work with (that we didn't use). The coffee in the room was very tasty (according to my girlfriend because I don't drink coffee). The bathroom was large. There was even a washer and dryer stacked up in one of the closets with laundry soap if we had needed it!
The room was stylish, boasted an usual, but comfy, couch, bar stools, the aforementioned full kitchen ans dishwasher, a walk-in closet to the bedroom, and even a baby playpen located in the closet! We didn't need that, but that is awesome that it is there.
I could very easily see people staying here multiple days and having clean laundry for when they leave to return home or continue on their trip. Checking out involved putting our key cars into a drop box and shooting over a picture of us doing so.
Overall, I was very impressed with the room we stayed in and I think the price was very fair, even with the construction going on. I have to give a knock for the construction and the records not working, but everything else was awesome.
I'm in Dallas for business every few years and I will definitely be looking to book at The Guild the next time around -- especially now that I've got the check-in process squared away. read more