Sophy, built in 2018 to achieve LEED certification, features bold, colourful rooms with murals…read morebehind headboards. Even entry-level rooms have love seats and ottomans, inviting guests to relax and play records by local jazz artists on in-room turntables. Located in Hyde Park, a vibrant and underrated area, it's near the University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, DuSable Museum and upcoming Obama Presidential Center. The hotel celebrates the university's Nobel laureates and MacArthur geniuses, referencing music, literature, and science while serving as a lively community hub. The South Side hotel boasts a great art collection including originals by Lewis Altenbach, clever restaurant Mesler with modern southern flair, and a lively neighborhood, making it an absolute delight. Each room was stocked with a mini-fridge, coffee machine, record player with selection of Delmar Studios releases, leather bound now pad with pencil, robes and bottles of water. The lobby offers Seedlip spirit free infused lemonade, and fruit infused water alongside full bar and restaurant offerings. A very cozy place to be creative, write, think, ponder and muse. Looking forward to staying again for an upcoming event!

I've stayed here four or five times, and the experience has clearly declined. My first two visits…read morewere great, the third was fine, but this most recent stay was disappointing. Parking is now a major issue--there's no dedicated option, and the hotel doesn't allow even a brief grace period to unload in their often-empty lot. The bell staff were also surprisingly rude about it. Amenities feel lacking for the price. There are no basic convenience items available, and there's no priority for hotel guests trying to get reservations at The Messler. The room itself had multiple problems. The furnace made loud banging noises every time it turned on (throughout the night), the shower gel dispenser didn't work and wasn't fixed after we reported it, and housekeeping didn't replace washcloths or send them up when requested. Individually these might be minor, but together--at this price point--they add up. The design touches are nice, but they don't make up for the lack of basic comfort and service. At this point, it feels like a budget version of a Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants.

I need a Chinese VISA the next day, I was very satisfy with the service from Chicago Century…read moreTravel. This place was fast and reliable. Mike was very helpful, answering all the questions with my situation. Couldn't ask for a better service anywhere. Next time I need my VISA service, tour or anything about traveling abroad, Chicago Century Travel is definitely the go to place!.

My rating is based of the bad experience I had when trying to obtain my refund. It took 6 months to…read morereceive my money. I also didn't' appreciate the bad attitude. Why is he giving attitude when I'm just trying to get my money back?! If you think you might have to cancel a trip, I do not suggest you use this company. You will get the run around about why you haven't received your refund.

I have to agree with Jane D. I didn't cancel my trip. In fact I was supposed to go June 22-29. I…read moregot a call two days before I was to fly out to say he was a victim of identity fraud and he didn't have the money to pay the motor coach. All I got was a sorry and a bunch of promises. The flippant attitude is what is getting me. I am now finding out that my credit card was used to pay for others trip back in October 2012. This has been a joke. DO NOT USE THIS AGENCY. He is not a Christian brother by actions.

I don't write reviews.. at all. But because of the terrible experience I had it's only right for me…read moreto leave a review to warn others. Honestly I don't even know where to begin, for starters Steve was a horrible tour guide. The tour was scheduled to start at 8:30am, that was with hotel pick up included. My friends and I didn't get picked up until 11:30am and it was a good thing that we went ahead and ate breakfast even though we were guaranteed to be taken somewhere to eat breakfast for the allegedly 8:30am start time. And even though for our party of 3 we were guaranteed a private tour, when we got picked up at our hotel there were two other people on the van, which thank goodness they were very pleasant. Steve tried to tell our party of 3 where to sit on the van instead of letting us choose where we would like to sit causing uncomfortable seating issues, so our party of 3 and the two other people on the van worked out our own seating arrangement. This seemed to have disturbed Steve to where he wanted to swap out vans. Even when everyone on the van said that we are all fine and comfortable with the seating arrangement we worked out and also the current van has better accommodations (charging ports, climate controlled, etc). This still fell on deaf ears because after about 1hr into the tour we got into a different van that was below expectations. Steve went on to show us places that we honestly didn't have no interest in seeing and these places wasn't mentioned being part of the tour. Steve had an issue when we asked questions, the tour wasn't engaging, Steve did a lot of talking and made the experience extremely boring. Also I believe Steve is hard of hearing as well which caused a communication barrier. The tour is supposed to be 4hrs and we were guaranteed to be taken somewhere for breakfast and lunch. So mind you we got picked up at 11:30am for the tour instead of 8:30am. Around 2:00pm everyone on the van was hungry as heck and Steve didn't want to stop for us to get something to eat. He went on saying that we have to have structure and there is a certain order that the tour has to be done, which was very contradictory when we was initially told that our requests will be accommodated. Steve proceeded to show us other places that we didn't care to see because we was extremely hungry. We asked several times if he can at least stop somewhere for us to get snacks but he ignored us. The last place we stopped at before we ate, myself and another person out of our group didn't want to get off the van to view whatever it was Steve wanted us to see which wasn't mentioned as one of the places that we would see when we booked the tour. So as Steve was helping the other people off the van and when myself and my friend said that we will stay on the van, Steve slammed the van door in our face while saying okay bye. We finally was taken to a soul food restaurant to eat, this was 1hr later and keep in mind the tour is 4hrs long. We was in the restaurant for about 1hr 20min. After we got done eating two of us (myself included) decided to just uber back to the hotel and not finish the tour because we just couldn't take it anymore, it was extremely boring and Steve was rude. The 1 person out of our group that did stay informed us that after we left the tour, Steve did not take them to Jennifer Hudson's child hood home, Kanye West child hood home nor Obama's house and that was because of time which that's all on Steve. So yeah, this experience was terrible and we basically wasted a great majority of our day for nothing.

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Me and family booked this party bus expecting a great time. Before leaving destination Sharon…read morewasted 30 minutes of dear time going over rules for the bus , do's and don'ts, and complaining about how many passengers were present. Upon leaving we couldn't get the Bluetooth to work on bus, radio was static the whole time and Sharon couldn't help us with that issue. The ride was rough and honestly this has to be the worst party bus I've been on.

I booked their services for a special birthday dinner party. The driver Sharon was very curt and…read morenot pleasant at all. The music would not Bluetooth, the radio was static. So, no music on the bus all the way to dinner. She hit all the bumps and potholes. Turning corners fast and knocking us against each other. Late coming back to get us from dinner almost 30 minutes. NO APOLOGY. Upon drop off she didnt even acknowledge the end of the trip just drove off after we got off bus without a word to me. Needless to say she ruined our special day!! The owner Maurice Turner did not accept responsibility for her actions offering a discount on a future booking. I THINK NOT!!!!