Moxy Seattle Downtown — Hotel in Seattle

DO NOT STAY AT THIS HOTEL IF YOU ARE OLD! After reading that sentence you may think there is some sort of discrimination taking place. That is not the case. My meaning is, if you are old at heart, stuffy, and stiff, this is not the hotel for you. This is DEFINATELY THE HOTEL FOR YOU IF YOU ARE YOUNG AT HEART, no matter what your actual age is. Allow me to explain.

This Marriott brand (Moxy) is probably the most eclectic borderline eccentric within the Marriott chain. Take a look at the pictures to see what I mean. Moxy isn't for people who like to stay in their room. The desk, closet, and general living space in your room is minimalist. Moxy is designed to entice you to come down to the lobby and meet people. Relax by the fire with a drink, play some board games with new friends you've met minutes ago. Get some pool tips from the shark you met at the bar. Moxy is an experience, it's not simply a place to "hang your hat" while you're in town.

Located in a heart of the downtown Seattle area, the hotel is close to more than few restaurants and the famed lake Washington area. Unfortunately due to it's location, parking is... troublesome. On street parking is available, while finding a spot isn't terribly problematic, it is nonetheless inconvenient.

The staff, specifically management staff is stellar. I can't recall her name, (Black/African American Female) was friendly, helpful, personable, and jovial. During our stay my wife and I bumped into her delivering someone's Door Dash to their room. Many Hotels will simply call you to come down to pick it up. Days before our check in I arranged to have a refrigerator and microwave in our room. Sadly, once we arrived in our room, neither were present. After a few minutes she arranged the maintenance staff to deliver and "hook up" the refrigerator and microwave.

Last but not least... the gym. I enjoy working out, whether traveling or not. Not only does the gym have ellipticals, bikes, and treadmills, it has what a guy like me love to have in a gym, heavy weights and surprisingly a punching bag with gloves! Additionally if you like Pilates and strength bands, you'll find equipment for you as well.

Before booking, take a look at the pictures to see what you are getting. As I said, the room is minimalistic, no closet but you will find wall hooks and hangers for your clothes. For a desk you'll have a makeshift table for any work you might conduct on your laptop. Yet as I said in the beginning of this review, Moxy isn't designed for you to stay in your room for long, it's for meeting people and having a good time (pre pandemic). Remember what...

This was not my first stay here. However, from the first stay three months prior to this stay, the hotel quality has decreased on many levels. The man at check-in was not friendly. My room preferences are set to far from elevator and away from vending. When I checked in, he gave me the room immediately Off the elevator. Besides the noise associated with this location, as a female traveling alone, I’m not comfortable with this room location. I did not even enter the room. I went back to the desk and politely as for a new room location. After an eye roll and scoff, he reluctantly gave me a new room stating “but you’ll have to take one on a lower floor.” Obviously this was fine. His attitude about it was not. On to the room… the stick for the giant curtain was broken so it was difficult to close it completely because of the chair that’s in the way. The only viable tiny desk that you can use for a work space was now taken up by a microwave. Why? There is no fridge so why would you place a microwave in the only useful space of the room? This table the microwave is now sitting on is a folding table. Because the microwave is there, you can’t lift it up. This is a fantastic thigh and hip gouger at 2am when you need to go to the restroom in the middle of the night. There’s just a little over a foot of space between the edge of that table’s corner and the bed. It’s awful now. So no need to stay here if you’re on business travel. You have no where to sit and work! The bathroom is semi clean, the body wash and shampoo dispenser did not work so I had to use the hand soap for body wash. Thankfully I brought my own shampoo! There was hair in the base of the shower. The tray for the shower along with the pump for the broken shampoo dispenser had what appears to be mildew or something that looked gross on there. A deep bathroom clean is definitely in order. If your on leisure travel, want an ok bar and mediocre room at a decent price, stay here. If you’re on business travel, pick a better place. Definitely do not book you’re executives here if you’re an...

Not much to like here though. It's a Marriott product. The hotel is nothing like anything you'd ever seen with a Marriott name on it. Rooms are tiny with nothing in them, including any sort of refrigerator, coffee, ironing board, or any other things that you may find useful in a hotel room. There's no desk space. There's no seating and no space in the bathroom quick things. Imagine a Spartan rouge?. Don't bother. Try to eat it in the room because there's absolutely no place to sit down. Restaurant food or breakfast is not available here. They offer some food items kind of like you'd see on a a train or something where they heat it up in device behind the bar . Oh, and don't bother thinking you're going to get up and down to your room quickly since one of the two elevators is broken. Oh, and why you're at it? I was visiting during one of the really hot periods in August and unfortunately the air conditioning units are unreliable since my room. The thermostat didn't work properly and the heating wouldn't go off. I got switched to another room and believe it or not the exact same thing was taking place and I understand now that it's a recurring problem that they're aware of. Fortunately they took me to a third room that the AC was working on and made my stay tolerable. Wow! What a mistake. I made booking this place.

Update: so I've stayed another night since my booking is for three nights and they eventually got me to a room where the AC was working and I went down to use the tokens they gave you when you check in for free espresso or a drink. So since I don't drink I went for the espresso in the morning and guess what their espresso machine was broken and now the tokens are useless to me. So instead I decided to go for the free drip coffee which at the time I was there was unavailable since it was still being made at 8:30 in the morning. And I guess the redeeming value of all this is the reality that there's a Starbucks, only a few hundred yards away, which is a really nice one that's operated very well and it's not...