River Park Hotel & Suites

Please note that there is no parking at the hotel and no parking close by so you will have to pay $twenty five per night to the valet company stationed in hotel lobby to park your car, which increases the price enough to put it in the category of a pricier hotel, which it is not. Location is great but hotel condition is extremely run down.

It is a very interesting place. It used to be a very expensive resort that was converted into a cheap hotel. That mean that the fancy decorations (along with the rugs) are worn out. The lobby is full of sculptures of lions, a fat lady, etc. It seems to be haunted. The rooms are clean and the hotel employees are nice. The morning of the check-out, the cleaning ladies walk into the room (shortly after knocking) to see when are we going to leave. Make sure you lock the door with the secondary lock. Everybody is forced to pay an extra $2/night because they have a security box. Most people get angry at that because is not mentioned on the hotel information. The location is OK. It is right in front of the "People Mover" (a free rail within downtown Miami). There are good restaurants in the area. However, the sidewalks in the area are not necessarily safe. The larger rooms are much nicer than the smaller ones. It is worth paying a little bit more. Every room is different, and has different furniture. Some rooms have rusted fridges that doesn't work. There is a gym hiding on the 3rd floor. It only has a stationary bike, a treadmill and a step climber that doesn't work.