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The Independent Hotel
Philadelphia, PA

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Posted By ErinG630 on 10/13/2008
My husband and I located this "boutique hotel" through bnbfinder.com and decided to spend our 5th wedding anniversary there. We booked a fairly upscale room accomodation in this supposedly upscale bnb and we were EXTREMELY disappointed! First of all - we booked a "King Loft Suite" and were surprised to find it had a queen size bed. When we questioned the hotel, they claimed that it was a king size bed - it was not. The refrigerator was broken and we asked about that also and were told that there was nothing they could do since there was no maintenance man there that day (ON A SATURDAY! - the busiest hotel day of the week?) Then we came back from dinner to find 2 men from Dtv in our room - they were fixing the tvs, but we hadn't been notified that there was going to be anyone in our room - and since they were not employees of the hotel - I feel that there should have been a hotel employee with them in our room instead of letting them roam around free. Oh, and by the way- they never fixed the tv in the bedroom either. The absolute last straw was when we came down for breakfast, which their website advertised as a "european breakfast served in their fireside lounge" and which turned out to be a continental breakfast in the lobby which you served yourself. There was a toaster, some bagels and danishes and coffee and warm oj. I was so upset and disappointed that we went back to the room and we called the front desk where the clerk was extremely un-helpful. When we questioned the breakfast - he said it was not a bnb - but then why did we find it on this website? After our extensive complaining - the hotel gave us a 20% discount on our room which was appreciated. Overall - we would definitely NOT recommend this establishment. They claimed to be very posh but were just very snobbish and unaccomodating. Their website borders on fraud - it is so misleading.

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The Independent hotel is a small 24 room boutiqe hotel. We have been opened for a couple of months and appreciate this kind of feedback, for this will assist us in our efforts to provide our guests with an upscale, clean comfortable room, along with the best guest service experience possible. When opening a new hotel, there may be a few things we may have overlooked during the openning process. We offer the most extensive offering of High Def Direct TV channels. We did have a Direct TV specialist in to re program the settings on our system to assure the best possible signal. The Direct TV person was escorted by our own engineer during this process. We have since changed the description of the Loft Suite on our site once this guest brought this to our attention. This room has been rented on numerous occassions and this is the first person to recognise our honest mistake. Our breakfast offering is limited to a European continental breakfast and is set up as a self service offering in our lobby. This is not your traditional American offering with hot items etc. To view other guests opinions on us, please visit tripadvisor.com. I think you will see that we provide a warm welcoming experience for our guests while staying in Philadelphia.
Overall: Unsatisfactory
Cleanliness: AverageAverageAverage
Atmosphere: Okay, but some problemsOkay, but some problems
Food: Unsatisfactory
Hospitality: Unsatisfactory
Expectations: Unsatisfactory

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