Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pittsburgh-South Side

There was construction going on in the hotel and zero signs saying where to check in. You had to check in in the back of the building and if an employee weren’t on their way inside we wouldn’t have known where to go. They gave me a hard time about the card I was using to secure the deposit even though there weren’t any small print details saying that they didn’t want to accept chime after I already reserved the room with that exact card. Breakfast was provided but it was grab n go items so that was disappointing.

There was a Toenail clipping left on the floor by the bed and there were sheers in the room and no way to make the room dark to sleep at night.

The hotel is close to the center of Pittsburgh (south side of the Monongahela river). The city can be easily explored on foot from there, you can reach the downtown area in 30 minutes on foot. Only negative point is that you need to walk through rather shady area which might some people feeling unsafe with. The hotel itself is good, the room was spacious and the beds very comfortable, the bathroom though showed tiny spots of mold - nothing serious though. Breakfast was served downstairs in a nice environment. It had a big selection (eggs, bacon, sausages, sweets, bread, cream cheese, jam and yoghurts as well as oatmeal) and was very tasty - which we enjoyed. The coffee machine inside the room was really crappy, I pressed the button for inserting the coffee and it fell almost apart. I notified the receptionist and he told me I could always get coffee and hot water from the breakfast area which was highly appreciated. As I stayed there on a weekend I used a public parking lot - for free - in the direct vicinity and did not pay for the rather expensive hotel parking.