W Chicago Lakeshore

Pros: - great bed
- white glove service
- great food
- excellent Platinum benefits/perks
Cons: it all comes at a very high price.

OverviewThe W Chicago Lakeshore is easily the best hotel in the city.  While the Drake offers more "Old World" charm and blue-blooded stuffiness, the W CL offers nothing more than beautiful architecture, gorgeously comfortable rooms, and ...

Pros: Location, decor, friendly hotel staff
Cons: Noise, small rooms, in-room Internet (charges twice if connect before noon and then again thereafter)

For my first trip to Chicago in over ten years, my wife and I left our fate to a name-your-price travel website and ended up at the W Hotel Lakeshore. We enjoyed the W for its location and all the things that it did right, but there were several ...

Pros: Great service, interesting vibes, young and trendy, great toiletries
Cons: Expensive, not conveniently located, inadequate business center

I stayed at the W Lakeshore Chicago in October 2006 for a business conference. This was the hotel affiliated with the conference, and while it was on the expensive side, my employer decided the convenience of staying on-site overrode the additional cost ...

Pros: very modern and trendy, great details and plenty of extras (at a cost).
Cons: loud and busy lobby and elevators, pricey

I stayed at the W Hotel Lakeshore for business/pleasure on a recent Saturday night in May. We got an e-mail offer for $175 per night plus tax, typical rack rates start around $239 per night. My husband and I arrived slightly late - 8pm. We parked at ...