Residence Inn Halifax Downtown

Central hotel with excellent facilities, rooms and breakfast. 24 hour reception. Full kitchen and bathroom with lounge area and good storage. A pleasant comfortable stay. Close to convention centre. Front rooms are a bit noisy and you have to be clear when you would like rooms cleaned.

If it weren't for the level of noise, this would be your stereotypical five-star review of a Marriott property. The room is clean and spacious, the location is ideal and that is closed to both the waterfront and the convention center as well as numerous restaurants. Unfortunately, directly across the street is a large outdoor music venue that hosts incredibly loud concerts that go until at least 1:00 a.m. every Friday and Saturday night. The front desk is aware of this but doesn't tell you this when you're booking your reservation. So by the time you find out it's too late. After our first night here, listening to '70s and '80s cover bands, when we asked at the front desk about possibly going somewhere else, the person there told us that it generally was quieter on Saturday night. Well, here we are listening to an EDM (Electronic Dance Music) concert that is slated to go until at least 1:00. A.m.. Given that we are paying your typical Marriott prices for a downtown location, this is absolutely unacceptable. At the very least, the hotels should make it clear to anybody booking rooms on Friday and Saturday nights about the probability of this level of noise. Additionally, refunds are significant discounts ought to be offered.