Stay: Oct. 2005: A brief chronicle of our Francis Marion experience for a regional conference of 405 persons: a reasssigned room, since the first one had sneakers near the entrance- snores that we heard confirmed that the sneakers were not part of the room package. The reassigned room was comparable and the registration staff accepted our request not to be asigned to a lower floor (the hotel is in a main traffic area in central Charleston). The room was was small (with no sitting options other than the beds or desk chair), but comfortable- guests control their own level of AC/heat (we needed both because of temp. changes). The best thing about the bathroom is the shower and towels, otherwise it's the second bath of a 1940's rehabbed house. Staff are impervious to guest service- when 2 of 3 (VERY SLOW) elevators didn't work, hotel staff responded that the 3rd was tied up because of a move from the penthouse. I (at age 62) walked from the mezzanine to floor 10. A family hauled their......
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