Reviews of The Drake Hotel 4 stars

Location to Michigan Avenue and shops with a view over the lake. Mid way between Soldier Field and Wrigley Field. Brilliant location for food too.

Nothing, a fantastic stay at a iconic hotel

The location was great. Views of the lake were great. Check-in was easy. The rooms were clean.

While the lobby area was decorated with beautiful flower arrangements the rest of hotel seemed worn out and stripped down. Lobby furniture was sloppy. The rooms were not decorated and seemed stripped of any extra accent items. Like an empty apartment. Our 2nd room had twin beds and a sitting area. It was a very large room and the view was amazing but the furniture was shabby and well-used -not a space you wanted to sit in. All and all you could imagine how beautiful the rooms use to be but they are just not kept up. Thankfully the rooms were clean but there was still a feeling of emptiness like they just stop the grand gestures and left things basic. Given its location and that it was a decent place to sleep the Drake was fine. However we won't choose to stay there next time.

Staff, location, ambiance

Nothing

Locstion

Location and style.

Location and main common area just gorgeous. They need to up keep their elevators and work on certain room upgrades. 😘

Above

Super accommodations. Good Breakfast

The Valet at the front seemed aggressive to get our car, though we were just unloading. He also seemed to press for our photograph at the end to possibly get paid. We had a 15$ rate for each of our breakfasts, but virtually impossible to get a good breakfast for that rate, so we had to pay extra for that.

Location

No concierge, personel where not knowledgeable of travel ,bus ,train,sites ,etc.

amenities, cafe downstairs, bar downstairs, bell service, location, polite and helpful staff

not one stitch of extra blanket, difficulty controlling the a/c, lack of seating

WiFi

Amazing location

Fit and finish just were not up to par for the location. Barren, slightly ratty suite with a tiny mid tier renovated bathroom.

It’s very close to the lake

The Drake is very dated. Mistakenly I “upgraded” to a king suite for $20 and regretted it - although the room was large, it was pitch black, on a corner inbtween buildings, so it got no light - beware. Also beware of an extra charge to add air conditioning, all rooms are air conditioned. Luckily I stayed only one night!

We had a lake view suite. The staff was amazing. Jeff in concierge was very helpful and did a great job. We will definitely make plans to stay at The Drake in the near future.