We had a tough time here and after one night, even though there's no grounds for refund, we changed and went to hotel downtown, where we were much happier. To Vince's credit, most of the info is there and had I read carefully, I would have booked elsewhere. Clearly "microsuite" means very tiny and for the price, what I thought I was getting would be an impossible deal in Seattle and so that is on us. You can see in the other reviews (that I didn't read beforehand, my bad) that this kind of space is fine for a lot of people, maybe people from dense cities like New York, I don't know.
Had I understood that, I would not have booked there and would have accepted Seattle just costs more than Portland and what I want costs more. I came with my teenage daughter and was planning to sleep on my own sleep pad on the floor, which I did. I did not realize there's so little space I wouldn't be able to inflate, so I just folded it up and slept on rubber because there's just no room. And there's no room to really stretch out and relax except for the bed. Also note that many of the pictures are of the shared spaces, not your room. And note that there's really not a good lounge space downstairs either.
Here's where I take issue with Vince's assertion that all that info is in the description. It's a TINY single stairwell to all the microsuites on the 2nd & 3rd floors, and loud and creaky and each time I forgot something in the kitchen I felt like I was intruding with the noise it took to simply retrieve it. I certainly heard everyone going up to either floor, from the 3rd floor so I have to assume they heard us. And each trip I made from the car in the "free street parking" several rainy blocks away added further frustration. Yes, the parking is "free" but the population density there makes street parking spaces competitive. After a trip to the store later, we were rewarded with a spot only one and a half blocks away.
The key pad to get in is black and lights up when you touch it, but when you first touch it you can't see what you're pressing so you invariably it's the wrong first number of the pad. It's okay, you can redo the combo, but it's annoying. And after a day I was better at guessing where the "8" is in a blank pad and had we stayed I expect would have mastered this.
It is very clean, sterile even, and is cutely adorned, and the space is well organized for what space there is, but for my money, put a small fridge under the shelves with the toaster and coffee maker, remove the entire kitchenette in the room, and put in a two-seater couch and ottoman and maybe install a reading lamp on the wall next to it, and just let everyone share the kitchen and put a couple couches or tables down there and remove those silly computer terminals in the shared space (is this 1997? Who needs those internet terminals in this age? Even the primitive groups of people in the most remote places left on earth have cell phones with wifi capability) or if you keep the internet terminals, maybe give them both chairs (one had had no chair). And post another photo of the bedroom from a different angle so people are clear what a "microsuite" is and label with a caption the photos that are "shared spaces", not in your room. And maybe a note about sound carrying through walls (other reviews report the fun sounds they got to hear through the walls, we didn't get to have this fun, fortunately). You can come up with some euphemism for "loud, creaky stairs" and "very thin walls" the same way it is accepted apparently that "microsuite" is code for "keep your arms drawn in while you stay here and you'll be fine."
Also, there's one tiny stairwell, no fire escape. What would people do on the upper floors if there's a fire on the lower floors? I looked out the window and saw a thick bunch of wires that would complicate a fire truck ladder rescue. I'm sure it would be fine and we'd get rescued but it did not add to the comfort.
Vince remained professional and communicative, I will give him credit for maintaining a cooperative tone once I expressed my frustrations.