Doubletree Princeton

I paid for the executive level and the executive lounge was never open. It was advertised that breakfast along with 5pm snacks would be available. That wasn’t the case. What was the point of upgrading? I checked in at 11am and there were no cookies. False advertising. Don’t patronize this mediocre hotel.

Short stay before we continue to Boston. Perks of Hilton honors member we got awesome baked cookies on our midnight check in with bottled water which we needed. A great welcome from the night auditor and sorry I was so tired I did not take note of her name. I don’t think the hotel is busy which is nice and peaceful. Got our free breakfast in executive lounge on 6 floor. Jeannette was awesome. Great hospitality. Now G is having a quick swim while temperatures outside are freezing brrrrrrr. Now to hit the road again. Safe travels all!

Business traveler here. I really enjoyed this hotel and I stay in a lot of them. I’m low maintenance usually and just stay in my room, so can’t speak to all the amenities. Room service was timely and decent. The room was the perfect size (not huge and cavernous, which I hate), it seems like an older hotel but the décor was modern with comfortable bedding. The clock radio worked! Usually broken in most hotels even the nice ones. And the TV channel list was right under the easy to use remote on the bed stand. These little details are missed as hotels don’t keep up with them. That stood out to me as attention to detail and good service. At the end of a travel day it’s nice to not hunt for the remote and listen to NPR. Felt like home to me.
Also FREE WIFI, FREEEEE WIFI!!! It worked, clear easy instructions, and I used it! I hate when hotels charge for this and shockingly most do. This really seals the deal for me.

Let me start off by saying that this hotel shouldn’t even deserve one star. I booked a stay here for four nights and from the reviews I read, I expected great service. The employees here do not speak English. This is not a joke; I have tried talking to them and only the front desk knows how to communicate, but even they are a scam. I didn’t get room service for three nights in a row and called each day requesting it, but it never came. After the second night I was so fed up that I went down and told them I demand a new room, and the guy had the nerve to tell me that they were all sold out for the night. Funny thing is, the parking lot was literally less than half full. These people are a bunch of scammers just trying to take your money; they don’t care at all about what service you get. I do not recommend this hotel to anyone; I had an awful experience and I feel the same for others. Oh, one last thing. The people next to our room were loud until two in the morning despite several phone calls to get them to shut up. Low class people staying in a low class hotel; DO NOT STAY HERE!!!

I stayed here for three nights. It is a very nice Doubletree Hotel. They do almost everything right. The staff is very, very friendly. Everyone I met had a smile and was inviting. The housekeeping was spot-​on. The attention to detail by housekeeping was amazing. The coffee bar was replenished every day, the Kleenex box was replaced and even the plastic liner for the ice bucket was replaced every day.
The only downfall — the restaurant/​bar. Not that it was bad, just that it was only average. The lighting in the restaurant was horrible. Needs to be changed. Fluorescent lighting would be an improvement. The food was forgettable. It was bar food. Nothing special. You won’t see Diners, Drive-In’s and Dives here anytime soon.
I’ve learned that the whole restaurant/​bar experience at Doubletree Hotels varies by site. The Pittsburgh Doubletree restaurant was awesome. The San Diego — Mission Valley site does not have a restaurant, but food is available for order from the bar. The Princeton site is ehh… The bar staff at Princeton was very nice and friendly!
Overall, it was a good experience. The consistency (except for the restaurants) is why I stay here exclusively.

Trying to figure out who got paid off to allow the double tree flag on this establishment. Yes, the staff is nice. But definitely doesn’t meet the double tree standard. Carpet and rooms look old and a very motelish feel. Was trying to figure out why such low ratings. Well, now I know.

This hotel is… acceptable. I try to avoid it when I can stay at the Westin instead, but I would stay here if I needed to. I stayed here several dozen nights and got to see a lot of the rooms and use a lot of the amenities. Here are some of the pros and cons:
Pros:
Breakfast buffet is awesome.
Rooms are acceptable in terms of comfort and cleanliness (mostly).
You get a cookie when you check in.
Cons:
Restaurant overall is pretty gross. The counters need a good scrubbing. They are sticky.
Meals other than breakfast are poor. I have dined at the restaurant and bar a few times. Totally underwhelmed. Salads were so cold, I think they came straight out of the fridge. Very greasy, not satisfying.
Have had some cleanliness issues with the rooms (but these issues were the exception, not the rule). Came into the bathroom once to find the prior guests beard hairs all over the counter. Gross.
The Doubletree soaps in the bathrooms are too odorous and strong. Bring your own.

Stayed at this hotel for work for a few days and loved it! The bed was super comfy, I almost couldn’t get up! The room was really clean. The best part was the customer service at the complimentary breakfast buffet. The woman who works there is amazing-​very attentive and sweet!

Stayed for a week and it was OK. The hotel is on the newer side, which is nice. Not being from the area, it was a little bit of a paint getting to it as its on a busy highway.
Decent Wifi, Greate water pressure. Parking in the rear is somewhat sketchy at night.

Annette is great and Marybeth too Louis is adorable and they all were very professional and nice. They had to make up for the lack of what I assume is management. There were a lot of things missing or wrong throughout the stay but the awesome staff definitely made up for it!

Overpriced for the business traveler. $ 169 for the night… this might have been OK at a Homewood Suites. The room was nice, but this hotel lives on the conference biz. Breakfast is not included. Meals are overpriced ($ 43 for a main dish with desert). Wifi is NOT complimentary, despite my Hilton Honors status.
The hotel staff is a little rough around the edges (loud joking in the hallway, vacuum cleaners left abandoned in the lobby, etc). Overall, the hotel has an old and dated feeling.

Nope — don’t like this place. Not very attractive, not enough options on the room service menu, and the cook needs to learn how to cook the breakfast scramble.
I have stayed at this place for 3 consecutive weeks hoping that the breakfast will get better — it didn’t! I finally called it quits from the place and started living at the Hampton Inn near by … way way better!!!
Though this place is very unattractive, and food is not good — the staff had been extremely friendly and helpful. (3 stars for that else it would be at 2 stars.)

I booked the hotel package (included breakfast and internet) thru the course/​organizer online. But when I checked in, they did not provide the breakfast coupons and did not mention the internet should be included. I had to go back to the lobby to verify with my email proof in order to get my breakfast and internet for free. I believe that the package info must be in the computer system, however, the people worked in the lobby were not helpful at all. I felt that it’s kind of tricky if I don’t have my email proof with me.
Besides the lack of helpfulness of the people in the lobby, only one restaurant choice you have in the basement. If you don’t have a car, you have nowhere else to go.

It should have been great, but the minor screw-​ups just left me feeling the wrong way.
The hotel is nice, though I’m under the impression from friends in Princeton town that this location has changed hands multiple times recently. I liked the amenities and the rooms were decently-​sized and clean (though there was a strange spot missing carpet in my room, like it had been rubbed off).
First problem was when I got in and asked for the shuttle to the University in the morning. Sorry, they said, it was already full up and the next shuttle was an hour and a half after the one that I wanted. First — when I called before making the reservation, they hadn’t said that you needed to reserve it; that would have been nice to know. Second, if the shuttle is full, maybe they could do another trip? It’s only a ten minute drive. Either of these things would be a nice courtesy…
Second, I thought that I read somewhere that there was free wifi — maybe I’m mistaken. Anyway, I got there and there was only free wifi on the first floor. Another thing I wish I’d known.
Also, I’m not sure if this is the Hotel’s fault but they gave us the number for a taxi service. It picked up a large group in two taxis which didn’t have meters. Somehow they charged us DIFFERENT amounts despite leaving from and getting to the same location!

I was expecting a much nicer room considering the price and the good Doubletree name.
–Blood stains on the sheets
–Holes all over the sheets
–Old, dingy, gross curtains
–Huge and numerous stains all over the carpet
–Toiletries were half used
–Bar of soap stuck in the toilet
–Hair everywhere in the bathroom
So so so very noisy. Do not stay in room 209 it shares a wall with the elevators. Could hear people in next room and every noise morning and night.
No fridge in the room so you are at the mercy of On The Bone, the overpriced hotel restaurant with awful reviews. Bypass Rt. 1 and take Ridge Road right to Plainsboro, there are multiple food options there.
I would not stay here again.

****3.5 STARS***
It would have been so easy for this place to get 5 stars. We got a good rate (around $ 120) for a one night stay in Princeton. They have a heated indoor pool. They have a workout room. They have big, clean rooms. They have a restaurant — which, while overpriced like most hotel restaurants — had a very tasty breakfast buffet, although my burger at dinner was oversalted. And they give you the vaunted DoubleTree cookies!
But my girlfriend and I were extremely frustrated with the complimentary shuttle service, which was one of the primary reasons we chose this hotel. Their website says that they will take you anywhere within a 5 mile radius of the hotel:
—What their website doesn’t say is that the shuttle does not do that; we were at an event at one end of the Princeton campus, with our luggage, in 35 degree weather — and we had to lug it into the DoubleTree’s one meeting point on the Princeton campus in Palmer Square. Just not nice, particularly as we were the only people they were picking up! And especially because the route from the hotel to the center of town went RIGHT BY Jadwin gym, where we were watching a game.
–What their website also doesnt say is that when leaving the hotel, if you are not down to the lobby at the precise time the shuttle is supposed to leave, you will get a phone call from the front desk asking where you are. And if you are not down five minutes later, because you know — you’re trying to get ready to go – after an enjoyable time at their hotel, that you will get a SECOND call from the same white female with blond spikey hair who works at the front desk. Because she doesnt care that she is raising your bloodpressure and screwing up your 24 hours of relaxation with your girlfriend — damn-​it — she wants you down at the lobby at precisely the time you are supposed to leave. And if you are a few minutes late, she will pester you.
Again — very nice hotel — but please figure out this shuttle thing. Just too bad that a stupid thing like that could negatively impact my experience at a nice hotel. Thanks to Parag for his good work on Friday night; hope this hotel finds a way to keep him, even part-​time.

This place had been out of business twice before Doubletree went in. I was quite skeptical about this place while passing around because this place is kinda farther down from other hotels.
Anyway, we booked this place through Hotwire for our family for my wedding last Summer. What a genuine surprise. Since it has been relatively new, everything is very clean. The people who work here are very nice and attentive. Not that far from the campus, either. Nice place to stay.

Hotel was great but the restaurant attached to the hotel was awful. It really gave hotel restaurants a bad name and hotel restaurants already have a bad name. I didn’t like Princeton too much but that’s not the hotel’s fault.
The pool and pool area was one of the nicest I have seen at a hotel. And I can never resist Doubletree’s chocolate walnut cookies.

I travel a LOT for business, so I appreciate it when a hotel goes above and beyond. I don’t normally write reviews for hotels, but I wanted to call our the service at this particular doubletree.
The people who work there are very nice and extremely accommodating.
I arrived really, really late, exhausted, kind of anxious.
The front desk staff had my key ready immediately and gave me two warm cookies to make me feel betteer.
The place is very nicely done — new and clean.
The workout room was excellent. I really appreciate a good workout room.
Finally, you have to eat dinner there at the bar and talk to the adorable bartender. I already forget his name, but he’s a cutie.
This hotel made my lonely business trip feel a little bit more welcoming and I’d highly recommend it to anyone looking forward to a really good hotel experience.

Nice clean room that looks newly renovated. I appreciated that the windows open to let fresh air in. Although there was no screen so a mosquito got in the room. You can hear US 1 somewhat. It wasn’t enough to disturb my sleep though. Nice staff.