The Tommie Austin is structurally and irredeemably the worst hotel I’ve recently stayed at. Pros: 1) The staff were nice enough but seemed under-resourced and stressed; 2) the pool furniture is nice; 3) Globalist benefits are decent, breakfast was fine (but service in the diner restaurant isn’t great), I can’t speak to parking but theoretically that’s included, so that’s nice too. 4) The AC works great, but that might be expected given the room size (spoiler) So, you might be wondering, what is wrong with this hotel, why am I not happy? This hotel was designed with one question in mind: how small can we make a hotel room? This is theoretically fine, lots hotels in Asia metros or Manhattan deal with the same question. The issues are that 1) we’re not in Tokyo or Manhattan, but Texas, the home of excess and oversized 2) they failed at every turn in executing. Cons: 1) the rooms - simply put, they are not functional as a hotel room, and because of how they’re built they can never be fixed: 1A) if you have a checked bag, more than one bag, or a carry on bag that folds in half (basically anything other than a flip-top carry on bag or duffel), the only place in the room for your suitcase is the floor. You’ll be bent over digging through your suitcase for everything you pull out. There is nowhere else it can go. 1B) the bathroom is not functional. The toilet and shower are combined, so don’t sit on the toilet in socks or they’ll be soaked through. Bathmat? You can put a towel outside the shower/toilet combo, but you’ll need to move it away from the door when you come and go otherwise you’ll leave shoe prints on your clean bathmat. There is no privacy unless you want to get dressed in a wet toilet cubicle. 1C) the sink desk: the sink is combined with the desk, so your desk surface will inevitable have water droplets or a puddle on it. Hopefully you don’t have a computer or any paper on your sink desk when you want to wash your hands, otherwise you risk soaking them. 2) Miscellaneous minor things that show this hotel room was designed by people that don’t care, and are fortunate enough to never have to stay in it: 2A) there is a full length mirror, but it is positioned halfway into the bed. You can either stand 1’ away from it and awkwardly look down at yourself, or stand on the other side of the bed and look at your outfit in a 1’ wide mirror from 9’ away **) minor, but the lightbulbs in the room are different color temperatures. Some are warm and some are bright cool white. Might just be my brain (did you think a neurotypical person would write this review?) but this is so basic and sloppy and lazy and shows a lack of care. 2C) there is a nespresso, nice! But, there is only one decaf and one regular capsule, and there is only one espresso cup in the room. Did you want to use that one espresso cup? First you’ll need to dump out all the sugar packets stored in it sloppily on the nightstand. That’ll look nice for the rest of your sta
