West Queen West Hotel

This isn't the first time I've used this hotel. I've stayed here at least 6 or 7 times. It's my go to when I'm in TO. It's much like a hostile with private rooms, but shared bathroom. It's in my old neighbourhood that I lived in for over 20 years. So it's very convenient for me to stay there and the area doesn't intimidate me. It's in a crappier area of Toronto, but not dangerous. I'm a woman and I usually travel alone. The area is just visually unappealing. Across the street there is a dive bar and down the road there are several NGO's that the homeless and addicted flock to during the day. They don't bother anyone, they are just waiting for their daily meal or what have you. It's extremely convenient that there's a street car stop right outside. They have $10 parking where I can leave my car for my stay and not have to worry about it, and it's very inexpensive. Also, there's a quaint little doughnut shop right across the street that have the BEST doughnuts. The name is controversial, but the place is awesome. I can walk alone in this area at 4am and I'm not worried about anything.

The beds in the place are cheap, and I know that when I go. I just deal with it because it's simply a place where I lay my head. I don't spend much time in the room except when I'm sleeping. However, this particular room it looked like someone was trying to get OUT at one time with a crowbar. The wood had wide indents where the lock was from the inside. I noticed it when I shut the door. Also, the lock was a bit sketchy and the door would stick so you had to hip check it to open it and close it. The handle on the door was broken. The other rooms I have stayed in didn't have this problem. Also, the breakfast wasn't nearly as good as it used to be. Before they had a large bowl of fruit you could choose from and really nice muffins, as well as cereal. This time for both days they only had crappy cereal. Also, they used to have coffee mugs you could pour your coffee in. I'm down with that. This time they had the tiniest little Styrofoam cups that you would get maybe 5 sips of coffee from. I was a bit bummed out by that.