Sonesta Essential Des Moines
About Sonesta Essential Des Moines
The Sonesta Essential Des Moines hotel is located with easy access to Interstate 80 and Interstate 35. The hotel is just minutes from the Iowa Events Center, the Des Moines Art Center, the Iowa State Fair fairgrounds and the Science Center of Iowa museum. Drake University is five miles away. Nearby is the Merle Hay Mall, one of the largest shopping centers in the area and home to more than 100 shops and services. Enjoy outdoor recreation in the surrounding area, including golfing, tennis, boating and fishing. A variety of restaurants are nearby, several within walking distance from the hotel. This Des Moines, IA hotel offers many features and amenities, including free deluxe continental breakfast with waffles, free wireless high-speed Internet access, free local calls, access to copy and fax services. The hotel has a meeting room that can accommodate up to 150 people for events and functions. In addition to standard amenities, all guest rooms include microwaves, refrigerators, cable television and pay-per-view movies. Some rooms feature sofa sleepers, coffee makers, desks, irons and ironing boards. Suites with balconies and whirlpool bathtubs are available. Nonsmoking rooms are offered. This hotel is pet-friendly hotel (additional fees apply). Ample parking is available on the premises and can accommodate most trucks, RVs, buses and cars.
Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Meeting space
- On-site dining
- Café / coffee shop
- Business center
- Express check-in / check-out
- Dry cleaning
- Self-service laundry
- Full kitchen / kitchenette
- In-room refrigerator
- In-room microwave
- Pet friendly
- Family friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
- Smoke-free property
- Air conditioning
- Elevator
Reviews
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Exceptional
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Comfortable beds Good toiletries provided. Quiet Lumpy pillows. Totally iced up fridge which leaked overnight. No space round washbasin or rail for towel. Very poor breakfast. Waffle machines were out when we arrived on Tuesday evening but were not around on Wednesday morning. We were told only waffles at weekends.
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I was worried the place would be noisy at night while we tried to sleep but I actually slept ok. The front desk clerk checked me in quickly & efficiently. Rooms were pretty clean and looks like they tried to renovate. The whole place was rundown and gross. The exterior landscaping wasn't maintained; grass was overgrown, exterior doors were always unlocked. Light didn't work in the bathroom. Floors were warped and damaged. The clientele was shady, always groups of people hanging outside the exterior doors smoking. The couple across the hall was arguing, kids running down the halls. Taco Bell down the street had a some sort of incident with several police cars. Just overall a dump and a dumpy area of town.
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Price and the staff Can’t think of any complaints
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Courteous and helpful staff, breakfast and my room was clean and felt newly done
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Avoid this property. Smelled worse than a run down motel 6. The staff allowed a group of kids to party till 2am with multiple complaints and a lazy ass police force. No sleeping here!
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Good
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Hotel was quiet and clean. Staff were pleasant. The hotel could use some repairs on things around but overall, it was fine.
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Clean, updated rooms Noisy mini fridge, left puddles on the floor overnight
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The hotel room was clean and checking in and out was a very smooth process.
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Poor
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The price was great. The free breakfast was similar to what I had just had at a more expensive hotel.
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The staff were great & it’s a good safe location The elevator was sketchy & the breakfast was ordinary
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Staff are friendly and place is clean at an excellent location
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Location. Bed spring broken, screen in window torn out, fridge leaking. Staff was ok.
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Very clean. Friendly the outside around back the parking lot has a lot of very tall over grow. Weeds that could use a clean up. Other than that I enjoy my stay here! Breakfast could have more variety or change up from time to time!
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The room was very nice and clean. Breakfast was great
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Superb
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Very good
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The whole. Was comfortable.
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What's nearby
- Drake University 3.9 mi
- Iowa State Capitol 6.2 mi
- Des Moines International Airport 8.0 mi
- Des Moines Airport 8.0 mi
- Iowa State Fairgrounds 8.2 mi
