The Wink Hotel

good location

construction work is in progress at the hotel, and no one is informed about it. In the rooms is concrete, the photo does not correspond to reality

The room was fine, and decorated nicely enough

Avoid, avoid, avoid. A disappointment from start to finish. What the site doesn't tell you is that the hotel is going through renovations, so the lobby is a building site (with exposed girders and plastic sheeting everywhere), there's no lobby space downstairs and you will be woken up at 8:30am on a weekend by loud drilling and hammering. Further to this, the state of cleanliness and repair in the hallways is very poor (how hard is it to vacuum a carpet?) and the walls between rooms are paper thin. I could hear every word of a woman next door having a tedious telephone conversation, at volume. Overall, the images on the site make The Wink look like a modern design hotel, with a lot of the interiors / furnishings remniscent of The Hoxton in London or The Ace Hotel in New York. However, the execution is cheap and disappointing at every turn. Examples of this of this include the room door that needed to be slammed to close properly, meaning you could easily leave it open by accident, or the toiletries that felt like cheap dollar-store refills. The exposed concrete floors are trying to trendy but without a proper polish they just look unfinished, a good analogy The Wink as a whole. Finally, while the hotel is being renovated and re-launched as 'The Hangout', be wary - I suspect many of the reasons I didn't enjoy my stay at The Wink will carry over into the 'new' hotel. A Holiday Inn would have been cheaper and would have had thicker walls at least.