We decided to introduce our teenage grandson to Chicago, so either needed two rooms, or a different arrangement that would allow everyone privacy. The Sonesta fulfilled that in spades. We had a huge room with a bedroom, a big living room, a kitchen area, plenty of closet space and 750 ft.², in a very good location on the Miracle Mile and with breakfast thrown in, and topped off by a price market three cheaper than anything else around. All good so far so there has to be a couple of catches. First was the elevator situation. This obviously had been an apartment building before becoming a hotel, and perhaps two elevators was adequate for a building with apartment, but not really so for a 19 story hotel with many guests, many of them had kids with them. Our room was on the sixth floor and by the time a downward going elevator would actually have room, we could be waiting 20 minutes at times. A better philosophy, depending on the time of the day was to take the elevator Up and write it to the roof, then write it all the way down. (this happened about 25% of the time). We also don’t mind walking, but after walking down six flights of stairs, having tired of waiting for a down elevator, somewhat bizarrely, there are no stairs that go to the lobby at all, and when you get to the bottom or confronted by a door that says an alarm will go off, so we are forced to go back upand wait even longer for a down elevator. Check with the front desk, we were told that that indeed was the case –