5. This is an excellent example of this franchise's flagship hotels: easy, rapid, kind, accommodating check-in, concierge and hotel manager/overseer right in the middle of the front lobby, multiple valets, restaurant right up front, excellent and unbiased (conformed with Frommer's ratings) restaurant and other suggestions available, clever names for the bar and the restaurant (actually, the names *are* 'the restaurant' and 'the bar') and nice touches like a free glass of featured wine to preferred members on check-in.