This hotel - it's lobby, rooftop lounge, and fitness center (though no pool) - is an impressive place to stay. If it weren't located where it was, we would return.
Unfortunately, it's situated in an economically devastated portion of Albuquerque's Downtown area.
This results in a restrictive environment of getting stuck IN elevators or stairwells and OUT of your parking lot.
Staying at this hotel was a complicated dance of key-card possession and class-system-engineered breakfast floors. (We unfortunately scored the rate with the inedible, cardboard sausage and the runny, fake eggs - AFTER - my children had come from downstairs and walked past the fancy offerings of the first floor class).
After an evening walk past vagrants and a morning (room with a) view of the food pantry lines across the street, we'd already had some gritty conversations about poverty and wealth; so our children were ready to hear: we may not "get the rich person's breakfast downstairs," but at least we "have jobs and don't have to stand in line across the street."
As residents of NM, we feel lucky to (still) be in the middle class. Who knows how long that will last.
Side note: we loved the fitness facility and playing corn hole on the roof near the gas fire pit. Very cool thought behind the interior design, as well.
