A fantastic hotel overall, with probably the best service that I've ever experienced. The huge drawback, however, is the construction that is occurring on both sides of the hotel. They generally work 8am - 8pm Mon-Sat (we stayed for a week) and one of the buildings had workers present on Sunday as well. This was not disclosed on any part of the website at the time of booking. This hotel will be perfect when the construction's done, though the doorman at the hotel when we left estimated that they'd be working for another 1-2 years.

I booked the Talbott Hotel for a two night stay in Chicago. I chose it because they offered the best rates for a 4 star hotel in the location I was looking for (convenient to shopping and dining). The positives: a nice staff, large rooms, clean and well maintained. The negatives: major construction taking place immediately next door to the hotel--sleeping past 7 a.m. was not possible and needless to say, my three teens did not like this at all. When I booked my reservation, I had inquired about construction noise and was told that it was not a factor anymore and that they had not received any comments/complaints from guests about the noise. I would not hesitate to stay here when construction is complete. It's not hip, fancy or luxurious, but charming and well-located at a price that represents a fair value--when the construction is complete.

We stayed at the Talbott in February. I wrote a review but it wasn't listed. I wonder why? Fine hotel but there is construction next door that runs 6 days a week - 8am-8pm, with noisy consturciton elevators running 12 hours a day and bright lights on 24/7. Avoid until the construction is over. Then, it will be a very nice place to stay.

We just got back from a 3 night stay at the Talbott hotel in Chicago. We had booked this through Hotwire so we didn't know we were staying here until after we had purchased through Hotwire. This was a great place to stay! I knew we had one of the smaller rooms - which was a Deluxe King room. But, once we walked into our room we saw that it was very spacious for a regular room. Very nice and updated decor, and everything was extremely clean. The first 2 nights we hardly saw any other guests in the hotel. Seemed like we had the place to ourselves which was a nice relief from the busy Chicago streets. I read others' complaints about the noise of construction next to the hotel which made me nervous since I'm a light sleeper. While we did see the construction, I never heard any of it - and we slept in most mornings until 9:30 or so. I read that the suites in the hotel had jacuzzi tubs, and I knew we didn't have one in ours as we had a regular room. However, the tub was very deep and great for soaking! (Might I add, this was the cleanest hotel tub I've seen in a long time!) We had a wonderful time staying here and the staff was wonderful and friendly. My husband did have one complaint - though the bed was comfortable, the down comforter on the bed wasn't long enough to cover his feet. His not extremely tall, about 6'0. So, that made sleeping a bit rougher on him, but overall we loved our stay!