Aloft by Marriott Buffalo Downtown

We've never stayed at an Aloft hotel before. After this stay it certainly won't be our last!! Our corner room had floor to ceiling windows giving us spectacular panoramic views of the city and lake Erie. We also had a balcony with 2 chairs and weather cooperated so we were able sit out and enjoy. The Grab n Go breakfast options were the best. The breakfast sandwich was excellent and Big. The breakfast burrito was huge and the best I've tasted. The XYZ bar was cool. Good drinks and food were really good, especially the chicken BLT wrap. The neighboring place. V/Ice had exceptional salads. The staff was great and facilitie clean and modern

I had a great view of the lake - would definitely stay there again. The room was clean and everything was quiet. There was a place nearby to have breakfast.

This hotel perfectly illustrates "the Enshittification of Everything". It was $500/night (for the eclipse), and had no microwave oven in the room... nor even a microwave oven next to the ice machine down the hall (like some other "boutique" Marriott properties including the "AC by Marriott" in Seattle/Belevue, WA have). The room's sad excuse for a chair (not counting the uncomfortable L-shaped ornament next to the tiny table) was a lonely-looking padded cube that failed miserably as both a place to sit AND a place to put an open suitcase. The refrigerator had no freezer, so I couldn't re-freeze my ice pack and had to use ice cubes for the trip home... and it was so desperate to be "green", it turned off the display after a few seconds and created about an hour of uncertainty about whether it was even working. The room's 12th-floor location was noisy due to the nightclub on the roof. Topping it all off... the bathroom had no lock on the door. Basically, it's a hotel that tries so painfully hard to pretend it's "cool" and "edgy", it completely loses sight of things that actually *matter*, like "guest comfort". If you're pretentiously insecure about your own trendiness, think ascetic minimalism is cool, and you're OK with eating cold packaged junk food or raw fruit for breakfast, you might like this hotel. Personally, Marriott's "boutique" hotels are now officially dead to me. For $150/night, it would have been "disappointing". At $500/night, it just plain sucked.

I was very happy with the room. I am very very very pleased that the lady at the front desk was able to move me to a room with two beds, instead of just the single. I had originally booked a single bed, but my Dad asked to come along to see the eclipse at the last minute. I assumed that it would be impossible to change anything with the way hotels were during the eclipse. I brought my own air mattress instead. The staff member asked if we wanted to switch to a room with two beds and was able to make it happen.

I just wish the roof top had been open on Sunday. Dad and I enjoyed the view on Saturday and though to watch the sunset on Sunday. We were disappointed to find out it was not open on Sunday. I did enjoy the eclipse party on Monday though.

Cool vibe. conveniently located. Walkable to downtown attractions. I wished the rooftop bar and lower level lounge were open on Sunday funday, but at least the lower level bar was open.

Good job.