tommie Austin - JDV by Hyatt

Marisa a month ago

Beautiful hotel with great amenities in a centric location. Loved the gym and pool. Rooms are small, but clean and comfortable. No refrigerator in the room but they can bring you one and that takes up more space. Only issue was the noise from nearby bars at night - it gets pretty loud… Be aware if you’re working or have an early flight. Earplugs and white noise didn’t do much for the noise. Staff were all kind and helpful!

Kathryn Leal 4 months ago

This is an amazing hotel! I travel a lot for work, typically by myself, and these are the nicest accommodations I have stayed in. I love the petite rooms, it helped me not lose anything! The restaurant in the 4th floor was amazing, and the coffee shop. But the most important thing, is that every person I spoke to was so kind! The person who checked me in, the front desk man who printed a parking pass for my conference, the barista who gave me water when she saw me choking on pills. Traveling alone is the worst but I cannot wait to return here!

Kyle 2 months ago

I stayed on the Tommie side of the hotel. Overall it's a nice hotel with great amenities (multiple restaurants and bars). The room was a bit weirdly designed, kind of like an efficiency apartment. There's little to no room to place your suitcase items other than the bed, the sink is in the middle of the room, etc. Good if you just need a place to sleep, bad of you need a place to work. Obligatory pillow review: these pillows are pretty bad, if you use one pillow your head goes straight through the bottom. If you try to stack two pillows, then you're sitting up right. Also, the smoke alarm occasionally flashes an insanely bright green light which that's fun I guess. Overall, it's a nice hotel, don't get me wrong. The room is well kept, room service is excellent, the hotel amenities are great, there are just a few annoyances.

rich benz 2 months ago

Everything about the hotel; location, cleanliness, service, price, amenities, were great. Sadly, the one thing that was poor was the room itself. While it was clean, the layout had to be one of the poorest ideas I’ve seen in a modern hotel. Nobody actually wants opaque glass walls around the shower and toilet, with sliding glass doors that don’t seal tight. Every sound feels as if you’re in the bathroom with someone. And the only sink and mirror is outside of the bathroom and sits in the middle of the room by the bed. This means women trying to ready themselves in the middle of the room under very poor lighting. As a result, the only very minimal counter space is the sink. No desk, no table aside from a tiny night stand on one side of bed. No actual closet. No free floor space on which to leave your suitcase open without having to step over it. And it’s not a mater of get what you pay for. The square footage could accommodate a better design. This was simply a poor one. 5 star hotel with 1 star rooms.

Daniel Powers a month ago

The Tommie Austin is structurally and irredeemably the worst hotel I’ve recently stayed at. This hotel was designed with one question in mind: how small can we make a hotel room? This is theoretically fine, lots hotels in Asia metros or Manhattan deal with the same question. The issues are that 1) we’re not in Tokyo or Manhattan, but Texas, the home of excess and oversized 2) they failed at every turn in executing. Cons: 1) the rooms - simply put, they are not functional as a hotel room, and because of how they’re built they can never be fixed: 1A) if you have a checked bag, more than one bag, or a carry on bag that folds in half (basically anything other than a flip-top carry on bag or duffel), the only place in the room for your suitcase is the floor. You’ll be bent over digging through your suitcase for everything you pull out. There is nowhere else it can go. 1B) the bathroom is not functional. The toilet and shower are combined, so don’t sit on the toilet in socks or they’ll be soaked through. Bathmat? You can put a towel outside the shower/toilet combo, but you’ll need to move it away from the door when you come and go otherwise you’ll leave shoe prints on your clean bathmat. There is no privacy unless you want to get dressed in a wet toilet cubicle. 1C) the sink desk: the sink is combined with the desk, so your desk surface will inevitable have water droplets or a puddle on it. Hopefully you don’t have a computer or any paper on your sink desk when you want to wash your hands, otherwise you risk soaking them. 2) Miscellaneous minor things that show this hotel room was designed by people that don’t care, and are fortunate enough to never have to stay in it: 2A) there is a full length mirror, but it is positioned halfway into the bed. You can either stand 1’ away from it and awkwardly look down at yourself, or stand on the other side of the bed and look at your outfit in a 1’ wide mirror from 9’ away 2B) minor, but the lightbulbs in the room are different color temperatures. Some are warm and some are bright cool white. Might just be my brain (did you think a neurotypical person would write this review?) but this is so basic and sloppy and lazy and shows a lack of care. 2C) there is a nespresso, nice! But, there is only one decaf and one regular capsule, and there is only one espresso cup in the room. Did you want to use that one espresso cup? First you’ll need to dump out all the sugar packets stored in it sloppily on the nightstand. That’ll look nice for the rest of your stay. 2D) the bed has storage under it, helpful I guess given the complete lack of storage in the rest of the room. Be careful though, there are metal pull handles protruding 2” from the bed frame. Careful not to run your ankle into them as you squeeze between the bed and the TV 2E) the pool has nice furniture, but the pool is shared between a few hundred rooms in the Tommie/Thompson and an apartment building. It wasn’t an issue for me on an overcast Sunday to get one lounger, but is that the case every day? 2F) The light over the bed is inside a fabric lampshade. Already covered, but when you’re in bed you’ll be staring into a bright cool white naked lightbulb. However, because this lightweight umbrella-esque lampshade is right next to the AC vent, the AC blowing causes this lampshade to shake back and forth. 2G) you have a somewhat real nightstand on one side of the bed, but the other side, which has the room phone, is just a small shelf. The outlets are placed above the shelf, so there’s always a big bundle of unsightly wires hanging out. Are any of these individually a big deal? No, not at all. Is this all evident of of a lack of care/thought? Absolutely.