East Austin Hotel

I really wanted to like this place but... it's 5:30 am and I am leaving. Tried to get some much needed shut eye before the 22 hour road trip home & we were kept awake all night by people stomping above our room. Stayed in room 109 and it felt like every single door slam & foot step was playing through a speaker. I really couldn't believe it cuz these places look pretty nice. Anyways the noise got worse at 3am and it's just been tossing and turning since then. Sayonara. I. Am. Tired.

I absolutely forgot this hotel was communal when we booked so it was a confusing minute that our bathrooms were outside the room. It was a different experience and we honestly enjoyed it. They were clean and never crowded and have handicapped bathroom/showers.The room was cozy. Our particular building didn't have an elevator, only stairs but the building surrounding the pool did. So if you need those accommodations, it might be best to book over the phone instead of a third party (Hotels, Expedia, etc.) to make sure you get a room in a building with the elevator.The courtyard had an outside bar but they're seasonal but still relaxing place to be. And there's a restaurant connected to the hotel but the street has late night businesses and bars if you want something later.They have a parking garage that's $30ish dollars for a night and with in and out access.If you don't mind dorm style or open to a non-traditional hotel, this place is cute! I will say the night we stayed, there's a THC truck outside that was playing music. We were able to fall asleep but keep ear plugs handy if you're a light sleeper.

Quite possibly Austin's best kept secret ! As a regular traveler for business and pleasure, I make it a point to stay at hotels that are funky and different and not the standard cookie cutter hotel. I stumbled across the East Austin hotel a few years ago and loved my experience so much that I make it a point to stay here whenever I'm in town. Super friendly staff and the on-premises restaurant is even better. The 2nd Bar & Kitchen has that "Cheers" sitcom feeling "where everybody knows your name". Great friendly staff and this would certainly be a place I'd put on my list when looking for something fun and different while visiting Austin! LOVE this place !

My parents wanted to reserve a hotel block for guests who came in town for my wedding this past spring. I helped steer them towards East Austin Hotel since I'd been to their restaurants before, and it was near my condo, i-35, and other destinations guests might want to visit. I knew the pool courtyard would make a good meeting place for everyone during down-time. Some of the rooms were actually reasonably priced for a trendy downtown hotel. Still, most of my guests opted to stay in AirBnBs, and only my parents and aunt stayed at East Austin Hotel. I was afraid that staying in a trendy hotel would be overkill for their age, but nothing was overly gimmicky, and everything worked out great. One sunny afternoon before the wedding we sat around the pool. East Austin Hotel was great to have as one of our meeting points during the wedding week, even if we did not rely upon it as heavily as we first expected.

Cute enough hotel in a fun area! We really enjoyed walking around the neighborhood and admittedly didn't spend much time at the hotel. The room itself was very clean and the bed was incredibly comfortable.

The rooms are nice, the location is convenient, but internet access is the pits: very slow, comes and goes. It's fine for an overnight stay, where you can just use your phone, but if you wanted to use your computer for anything, you'd be out of luck.

Booked this hotel through booking.com and the pictures did the hotel justice. Driving up from the outside you might seem a little unsure but the room we stayed in was great. The room was spacious and clean and the bed was comfy. They have a bar and restaurant in the hotel as well which I didn't get to experience. The only negative is that parking wasn't part of my reservation and was an extra $30 for the night. Overall it was a pretty good stay and I'll keep this place in mind for the future

Was looking to book a room at this hotel - went through their website but received an error during checkout. Never received an email confirmation so I assumed I didn't have a room.Eventually was surprised with a charge on my credit card for a no show fee. Called the hotel and explained the situation. Told me to email management. Did that and was told that they couldn't help except to cut the $373 fee in half. So their system failed and now I'm on the hook for $186.

Sorry so long. A lot to get off my chest. When we walked into the room, the air-conditioning was set at 62°. That meant everything in the room was damp, including the sheets towels, the pillows the rug. We let that go, then noticed that there was significant amount of mold in the bathroom ceiling and an extreme amount of moisture. Then we ventured to the pool which happened to be quite close to ambient temperature (100*). It was not refreshing. It was warm to the touch. All four nights we stayed there. The most anybody was there was maybe 10 people, and that was on the day that they were giving away free booze. Every other day there was less than five max. And most hours it was just empty. EMPTY. Gorgeous weather. No one at the pool. The pool was uninhabitable. It was not refreshing. It did not cool down. It actually made you warmer. When you got to in the pool you had to get out to cool off. so much so that you would get in and out just to feel the essence of cool. It was unusable. Because the pool was so un refreshing and so uninviting it also made the poolside bar completely empty. Nobody patrons the bar because nobody wanted to patron the pool. Seems like a missed business opportunity. The pool was one of the biggest reasons why we wanted to stay there and it was, like I said, unusable. Do yourself a favor and read more reviews. There's a communal area with a few rooms that share a communal bathroom that are only taken care of once a day. Heard horror stories there too. More mold and unsanitary conditions. I did make comment to a manager upon leaving. She was pleasant and heard me. I do not think any rectification will be attempted. Not her fault the pool is hot. Seems like that doesn't happed in Arizona or las Vegas. Seems someone designed it ignorantly and she's in the office so she gets to hear it. The mold on the other hand; I believe she has a responsibility not to book rooms that have maintenance issues as bad as this. There was no attempt to comp or offer to at least take a Coffe off my bill. I'm not looking for freebies but giving me her card and asking me "call her when I come back" is a flat out empty attempt at appeasement. The restaurant "second" was quite good and the wait staff was great.

Don't not book here! Firstly, it took them over an hour to have my room ready after the check in time. Then the hotel food and beverage manager informs me that the hotel is having a Halloween party, OK cute I get it, It's Halloween weekend. However, this party starts at nine and they are blasting club music that I can hear through my hotel room walls. I wasn't expecting the party to interrupt my stay. I asked the front desk when it will end, they inform me that the hotel party will end at 11. It doesn't end at 11 and continues through midnight. I had to wake up really early in the morning and I booked a hotel to sleep soundly, that is not what happened. I emailed Jacelyn, their manager, informing her of my dissatisfied stay, asked for a refund because I do not believe I got what I paid for. I wasn't paying to be woken up by club music. She informed me, oror rather lied to me, that the party was from an outside vendor, even though hotel staff had confirmed to me prior that it was in fact hosted by the hotel itself. She's a liar and is ghosting me.