Historic Palace Hotel — Hotel in Silver City

Three stars is based on the fact this is a quaint hotel - I knew this going in and so anticipated some of the issues that happens when you stay in a 'quaint' hotel - small rooms and small bathrooms, thin walls, bad parking, etc. This hotel has a good location, but Silver City is not a big city nor is there tons to do - it is a nice place to walk a few blocks, eat food that is decent, shop (vintage bookstores and clothing makes up the bulk, with not great hours for the most part so don't count on a lot of shopping) and maybe - if you are a museum person - to see some history. I loved the historical references around the city and cozy. The best part is that it is a good place to land before exploring the Gilas - not a destination city on its own beyond what I already described. Ok - I know this is a review of the hotel, not the city, but I say that because you don't "really" have to stay on this street to enjoy that stuff - you can stay elsewhere and come to this particular street to do the above mentioned. ||||CONS:||My biggest gripe about the hotel is that when I'm on vacation, I hate to be bombarded with political stuff. This hotel has political signage up which - depending on your political leanings - could make you happy or unhappy. In my case, I was very unhappy and would not have stayed here or given my money to this establishment.||So I am sharing a photo and you can decide for yourself if it makes a difference. My husbands biggest gripe was that he didn't fit on the toilet - he is tall and it was not a good seating arrangement for him lol. I shared a photo of that also. We aren't huge tv watchers but we were tired and thought we would watch - the TV had waves going thru it like old TVs used to have - it was a drag. ||||Other Cons: street parking, continental breakfast was just a bore and not appealing, coffee was not great (if not spending money on the food, some better coffee would make your guests happy :)) and there are two tables in the seating area so I was lucky and not many guests in the morning while I was there but if it was busy Id imagine it would not be so easy to sit in there and eat. I thought the price was alright but there was another hotel rated high on TA that was a bit less with higher ratings that I wish we had stayed at instead - so I"d price check on this one. A guy on one of the forums really pushes this hotel so I was swayed, but you will have to accommodate some things for the charm. ||||PROS: ||Staff was nice. Definitely historic and charming. Shower was hot. Right on main street. Loved bar across the street (Toad). ||Some people mentioned noise but the street noise wasn't bad when we were there - although we were not there on a weekend. Walls...

Three stars is based on the fact this is a quaint hotel - I knew this going in and so anticipated some of the issues that happens when you stay in a 'quaint' hotel - small rooms and small bathrooms, thin walls, bad parking, etc. This hotel has a good location, but Silver City is not a big city nor is there tons to do - it is a nice place to walk a few blocks, eat food that is decent, shop (vintage bookstores and clothing makes up the bulk, with not great hours for the most part so don't count on a lot of shopping) and maybe - if you are a museum person - to see some history. I loved the historical references around the city and cozy. The best part is that it is a good place to land before exploring the Gilas - not a destination city on its own beyond what I already described. Ok - I know this is a review of the hotel, not the city, but I say that because you don't "really" have to stay on this street to enjoy that stuff - you can stay elsewhere and come to this particular street to do the above mentioned. ||||CONS:||My biggest gripe about the hotel is that when I'm on vacation, I hate to be bombarded with political stuff. This hotel has political signage up which - depending on your political leanings - could make you happy or unhappy. In my case, I was very unhappy and would not have stayed here or given my money to this establishment.||So I am sharing a photo and you can decide for yourself if it makes a difference. My husbands biggest gripe was that he didn't fit on the toilet - he is tall and it was not a good seating arrangement for him lol. I shared a photo of that also. We aren't huge tv watchers but we were tired and thought we would watch - the TV had waves going thru it like old TVs used to have - it was a drag. ||||Other Cons: street parking, continental breakfast was just a bore and not appealing, coffee was not great (if not spending money on the food, some better coffee would make your guests happy :)) and there are two tables in the seating area so I was lucky and not many guests in the morning while I was there but if it was busy Id imagine it would not be so easy to sit in there and eat. I thought the price was alright but there was another hotel rated high on TA that was a bit less with higher ratings that I wish we had stayed at instead - so I"d price check on this one. A guy on one of the forums really pushes this hotel so I was swayed, but you will have to accommodate some things for the charm. ||||PROS: ||Staff was nice. Definitely historic and charming. Shower was hot. Right on main street. Loved bar across the street (Toad). ||Some people mentioned noise but the street noise wasn't bad when we were there - although we were not there on a weekend. Walls...

With glowing reviews we chose to stay here at the Palace. First off upon arrival there was nobody at the desk. Some others had opened the front door to let me in. I waited in a dark lobby for what seemed forever, actually about 40 minutes or more. I called my wife and said nobody was here and she said to call the phone numbers she sent me. I called and the desk phone rang and rang, then trying the other number I got an automated message. Apparently the second number was a third party reservation service which was of no help.||Then Gustavo appeared from upstairs, he apologized profusely and i asked whether there was an elevator to reach the rooms upstairs. He said no elevator but that our room was at ground level. The suite was very large, formerly a store on the corner of the block. It had been renovated in a somewhat non professional manner yet the size was remarkable. Gustavo offered to help me unload my luggage as I could only find a spot on a side street. Well we brought in the luggage and I still was amazed by the space.||Later that evening after dinner out, we returned to the hotel. Again the parking was on the street and I had to park almost 4 blocks away. In the room the first thing we noticed was a lack of a central heating system. We used the bathroom heater on full and brought a space heater out to the main room to attempt to warm this large space up. I will interject here that there were no instructions on what to do or how to heat this space. Apparently there was a window AC unit that may have had heating capabilities but we never did find out until we left.||Continental Breakfast - is nomenclature for coffee and bread and a little cereal. We found that we had to leave our room, go two doors down and then upstairs for a sparse breakfast. After a cup of coffee we left for Denny's to have a real breakfast.||Bottom line this was a mostly poorly constructed renovated store, into an enormous space. Little in terms of adequate outlets and heating options. A thorough explanation would have gone a long ways to at least being comfortable temperature wise. Instead with the challenges of parking loading and heating this space I have to give this two thumbs down. Maybe the Murray Hotel would have been more promising, though we...