Name: The Magnolia Omaha
Address: 1615 Howard Street, Omaha, NE
Telephone: (888) 323-5826
Rating: 4.25

Disgusting! Black in bed and shower. When I told the front desk they apologized but nothing else was done. A discount for the room would've been nice!

Disliked: Black gnats in bed and shower.

We had tickets to the Orpheum presentation of The War Horse. Enjoyed being so close to The Old Market. We shall return!

Liked: Loved the atmosphere, both inside and outside The Magnolia. Love, love seeing people coming and going and had "ownership" of their stay. Breakfast was fantastic! Staff was great!
Disliked: The beds were listed as queen sized but was only double bed. We have queen sized at home so knew this wasn't correct. It's hard to please everyone but the mattress was so soft we kind of "gravitated" to the middle.

Exceptional

Liked: A/C was working great. Decor very nice. Smelled good.Loved the historical element.
Disliked: The bed it self seemed to be damaged on the interior side as if the springs were blown out.

Very nice stay overall, but...

Liked: Lovely, historic building with a great location within the city (easy walk to the Old Market area). Our room was huge, had excellent air conditioning and was very clean and comfortable for sleeping. Nice bar in the lobby, albeit quite expensive.
Disliked: It was expensive to stay and parking was an additional $29, with a parking lot adjacent to the hotel. Although the location of the parking was very convenient, you had to use a room key card to enter/exit the automated parking system - meaning you had to check-in first (not convenient) and if you checked out and turned in your room key card, you had to find assistance to exit (why not just have gate open for exiting like at most locations?). Also, the hotel apparently hosts a lot of weddings and other functions and it can be very crowded and noisy in the lobby area.

Good

Liked: Everything was fine, the building itself was architecturally and historically interesting. The rooms/staff/decor were not unusual.
Disliked: Breakfast took ages: 10mins to get OJ and regular coffee, and 30mins+ to get toast and fruit. We asked for the check at same time as ordering and let them know we had to leave within 20mins to attend a funeral (we were wearing black). We never got the fruit, toast, or check within 30mins of sitting down. We left $20 on the table -- there was no staff around, and so we quietly left. (It was not busy)

Exceptional

Disappointing.

Liked: Location was perfect - easy walking distances to restaurants and entertainment.
Disliked: Both check-in and check-out took much longer than expected. Not enough staff to accommodate the guests waiting to check-in/check-out. In fact, after waiting 15 minutes to check-out, we left our room key and departed because we were going to be late to a meeting (and, our attempt to check-out was at 7:45 a.m.)Although the room was clean, the curtain was torn and the window was dirty.