Aloft North Kansas City — Hotel in North Kansas City

Stayed here during my visit to Kansas City with a friend and this is the first time staying at a Aloft, will be the last time. The hotel is located right along railroad tracks. I was able to sleep through it but the tracks are used regularly and if noises wake you up easily, stay away from this place!||I think we were on the second floor, but the walls are paper thin. You could hear people walking around above us and the doors were slamming so hard that they vibrated through the hallway. ||When you walk into the hotel, you walk over to the check in area, no signage indicating a check in, but there are two small counters where the employees stand behind. A very informal check in area of the hotel. ||The main entrance does have a pool table and booths to sit in and a bar. A conference room is attached to the hotel and a pool is conveniently located by the two elevators. ||The hotel is very retro style looking. There is a Burger King, Denny's, Arby's and a couple other eating spots along the main drag from where the hotel sits. ||We stayed in a room with one queen sized bed. Only one-half wall that separated the bathroom from the front room where the bed was located. The toilet was in a small separate shoe box room behind a sliding door. ||The shower stall door was made of glass and leaked water under it all the time. The floor would have water on it once you were out of the shower. The glass door was not installed correctly. The grout in the shower stall was stained and looked nasty. If you have kids with you, I'm not sure about privacy when taking a shower because the front room/bedroom and bathroom are all one with only a half wall. ||I have attached several pictures to this review outlining the bathroom and the front room/bedroom. The carpet in lay where the bed is located was stained in my room and could stand a deep cleaning. No light in the ceiling, only a small hub cap light mounted on the wall, one night stand lamp by the bed and one light mounted on the wall on the other side of the bed.||I would never stay at another Aloft. It would not surprise me if this goes brand goes away in time. For the money that I paid, I expected something a little more. The hallways are very dark with these very large lights hanging down from the ceiling. Only two elevators in the hotel and one of the floors of the elevator was dirty and sticky. The food section is a grab and go type of thing! The bar seemed ok, did not use it nor the pool. ||The room was small so it stayed cold. The blinds kept the sun out as the room faced east. I would highly recommend reviewing the reviews that people leave...

I didn't even need to stay an entire night to comprehend what an awful hotel this is for the business traveler.

What is it with designers of hip hotels? Here's the playbook for hip hotel design: Remove all of the useful and comfortable furniture. Replace it with wireframe, austere, uncomfortable junk. In particular, remove comfortable chairs, dressers and closets for people's clothing, and desks for business travelers who want to use their laptops in their rooms. Remove all electrical outlets from anywhere they might be convenient. Make the hotel hallways as dark as possible to give a mysterious hip, club vibe to the place. Also, it hides stains. And the occasional potential felony.

This hotel is the antonym of cozy and comfortable. And, of course, part of the reason it's so uncomfortable is because it's owned by Marriott. A bigger bunch of skinflints I have never seen. Here are some synonyms for Aloft North Kansas City instead: austere, forbidding, bleak, unwelcoming, cut-rate, uncomfortable, depressing, dismal, somber, distressing.

Other than the bed(s) the only thing you can sit on is an ugly little bench curving along one corner of the room. In front of that is a tiny little table. You either put your laptop on it and have no space for anything else, or you put anything else and have no room for your laptop.

And the neutral color scheme: Black, grey, beige, off-white. One splash of color: A rug that's mostly shoved under the bed. Combined with the murky lighting within the room, it's a recipe for suicidal thoughts by the second day.

Also, forget about getting food at the hotel. There's something pretending to be a bar in the lobby. Everything is just out in the open, with little dividers to separate spaces. Imagine a hotel built out of a shipping container. That's this place.

This hotel is somebody's new apartment while they're only half moved in, and the cable television hasn't been hooked up yet, and the only furniture is a mattress and a camp chair, and your voice is echoing off the walls and your stacks of moving boxes. That's this hotel.

And to top it all off, it doesn't even have send out dry cleaning service. A must for business...

3 months ago we stayed at this same hotel, at that time my 2 yr old son found a couple of half empty beer bottles under our bed and “had I noticed a second later it would have been too late, he would have drank it” I was livid I immediately went to the service desk and spoke to the manager. She expressed her deepest sympathy and Compt our stay for that night so we decided to give them another chance. Upon arriving this time the front desk wasn’t even competent enough to give us the right room, multiple moves later we had finally been given the room we had reserved. Due to our 2 year old having a specialist appointment we promised him the whole week leading up to our stay that we would go to the pool. Upon arriving to the pool room everything seemed like it should our son was sitting on the first step into the pool playing in the water with his hands as me and mom sit close by watching him enjoy his time. 5 minutes upon us being in the pool area a lady come in and insisted we leave the pool area. I asked why of course and she said they had a part ordered for the pool so it was down. I asked her if he could just sit there for a couple of minutes since he had been looking forward to it all week (and technically no one was even actually in the pool) she Said no and insisted us that if we did not leave the pool area she would be calling the cops… shocked I was speechless and just kind of stared at her for a minute not really knowing how to respond to that. She then closed the door and left and we packed up and left as well “still in awe” I do not recommended this place at all the staff is very snooty and rude. This is not a family oriented establishment, do not waste your money.

Post edit: upon finishing this review, we had a knock on the door. “It was two police officers” we were told that we had been trespassed from the property and had to leave immediately. Wow!!!! (I will say the officers were extremely cool and both had ensured me had they been in my shoes they would be livid) but of course there wasn’t anything they could do about how the hotel was...