I want to start by saying the hotel and staff itself were great and if you're just looking for a simple, cute place to stay near U-Village, this place will be perfect for you. There are just a few things that made us decide this hotel wasn't for us in our particular situation so I wanted to include it here in case anyone else is in a similar situation and is thinking of staying here. I rented this room for the night, because it was mine and my girlfriend's anniversary. We already live in Seattle, but with our families, so we wanted somewhere to get away for the night. We got to the room in the afternoon and our first impressions were great. Everything is very clean and well maintained, especially for the age of the hotel. The staff were very friendly and helpful so no complaints there either. Our problems with the hotel (again, personally speaking) began around midnight. As I mentioned earlier, it was mine and my girlfriends anniversary, so I shouldn't need to elaborate further why we wanted the room. The problem was we could hear people talking all around us from the hallway, as well as the rooms next to us. It wasn't like the distant talking you sometimes hear in properly soundproofed rooms. We could hear the full conversations of our neighbors and what they were watching on TV. Our voices also echoed and just felt very loud even when talking at normal volume. I understand the age and historical status of the hotel prevents certain work to be done architecturally to fix this, but speaking as someone with a background in interior design, there are certainly non-structurally compromising ways to soundproof a room. A side note, which again I don't necessarily blame the staff for, is that around the same time our neighbors started getting loud (midnight), the whole second floor started to smell like a casino. I was under the impression that this was a no smoking hotel, so I figured something would've been done to stop or prevent that. With the noise on top of the smell of smoke, we were not able to fall asleep or get comfortable, so we ended up just driving home that night. I appreciate the historic value of this hotel and the aesthetic was very charming, but it just wasn't viable for us to stay the full night unfortunately.