Holiday Inn Express Chicago-Magnificent Mile - Chicago

This hotel is not ideal for tall people. The rooms are really small since it's a older hotel building. My boyfriend, who is 6'4 had a hard time with how low the light fixtures were and he was barely 2 inches away from touching wall-to-wall (that's how tiny most of the rooms are). However, the night shift front desk lady seeing his height was able to get us another room last minute! She was really awesome and I appreciate her quick turnaround given that one vacant room.

This was a great stay since this hotel met all our requirements. My wife and I came to CHicago for a tourist visit. This hotel has a good breakfast and good enough WIFI. That is something we like since we like to start our day with a good breakfast. This hotel is not fancy but it is renovated and fulfills our requirements. Most important, This hotel is close to the best part of the magnificent Mile. All the restaurants and shopping and architecture tour etc is very close by. It made our trip amazing. We did not rent a car. Do try a restaurant called Doc B's (close by) which has amazing sandwiches and wok bowls. Best food.

Great short stay

The Holiday Inn Express is located in an older Chicago mainstay- the Hotel Cass. The building is older so the hotel has some of the old air, musty kinds of smells that you experience from an older place. That said, the price was incredible for the location. The room was on the small side, but again, the price for a downtown hotel was completely worth the lack of room in the room. I mean, we were up and out most days and slept in as often as possible. Breakfast choices were abundant, so I was able to grab a quick bite every morning before we left the hotel. Only bad thing about that- the eggs were dry; and twice I ended up with sour milk from the fridge. Our rooms were cleaned nicely, although the lady seemed annoyed that we didn't leave right away each day. She asked us how long we'd be in our room on the first day; that made us feel weird the rest of the time. Still would give it a 4 out of 5 stars; these are things you deal with when you pay less than $130 a night for a downtown hotel. My advice, take the room. :) you won't regret it.

Our room was so small we could hardly move around the bed to get to the bathroom.