4/10 Poor
Alan
8 Sept 2025
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beware The Studios
Although we like Albany as a starting point for an Upstate New York vacation, the airport hotels are all alike and the downtown hotels are mostly unexceptional. The Morgan State House website made the inn seem like the perfect charming alternative, with a 9.2 rating on hotels.com to boot. The rooms at the inn itself may well be as nice as most reviewers claim. We wouldn't know. What we experienced was the world of antimatter. Like several other reviewers, we were shuffled off to a dumpy old apartment building several doors down. The room, with a teeny bathroom, was ordinary. The majestic view was of other apartments. A morning walk around the block revealed some elegant facades but also a run-down commercial street with many empty storefronts. We had an average, pour-it-yourself breakfast overlooking a pleasant little courtyard. The inn did not appear to have had many guests on that Monday night. We only saw three over the course of breakfast. Looking over the inn's website, one can be forgiven for failing to see the distinction between The Brownstone, which is the 4-floor walk-up inn itself, and The Studios, which are at the drab apartment building and offer an anyplace USA stay. Same for the hotels.com website, where the key word is annex/elevator, which means the apartment building, and walk-up, which is the actual inn where we expected to stay.
Alan
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025
