Every time I stay at an old-school, traditional hotel like this Marriott, I remind myself how stupid and irrelevant this category of stays is compared to a random short-term condo rental. Not only you vastly overpay for your booking but you get a smaller room with no amenities, no microwave, not even fork & knife to eat your dinner leftovers, no table to play a board game on with your family, no smart TV (so that you buy their pay TV), overpriced parking and a paid wifi (which they will *maybe* remember to waive if you join their stupid loyalty program), which uses an annoying and insecure proxy. The room amenities they do offer (a safe, a wired phone, an alarm clock, a shower cap, plastic water bottles, disposable cups and a daily change of towels) are ridiculously irrelevant (and not sustainable) in this day and age. The experience is worse than a self-check-in condo listing as they try to upsell you with unnecessary services like enhanced Internet, valet parking or luggage porters.
On a positive note, I'm glad that they at least moved on from the silly little toiletries which wasted lots of plastic and are now using larger dispensers. The view from the 23rd floor was also quite nice. The location was good if I wanted to sightsee on foot, but was a hassle when driving a car.
It's less of a critique of this particular branch, but I'm writing this elaborate essay here to remind myself to steer clear of the whole category of places that this Marriott represents.