You'll find less street noise on the east side. Service is professional and friendly. There's room service, a restaurant, free parking, and a good location, with nearby retail on one side of the hotel and movie theaters on the other. This is a bright, clean, well-managed University District establishment. Some have small balconies overlooking the heated outdoor pool and hot tub.
All rooms offer voice mail, small safes, and data modem ports.
Other amenities include a complimentary continental breakfast, free morning paper, small fitness room, and free off-street parking. Extended-stay rooms are available. The entire hotel is nonsmoking. The new hotel lobby is low-ceilinged and cramped, but elsewhere the Roosevelt's Art Deco sensibilities have been somewhat preserved. The hotel's 20 stories have been reconfigured for the contemporary traveler, but studios are still almost comically small.