The Atherton Hotel At OSU

I stay at the Atherton on special occasions even though I live in the same town as its location, but it's a wonderful experience every time! I always get a peaceful night's rest and a great view every time! The bathroom is terrific! The breakfast is amazing! I have zero bad things to say about The Atherton Hotel!

I visit OSU once a month and stay at The Atherton Hotel each stay. While there are other hotel options in town, this one is convenient for my needs. Each and every stay has been very pleasant. Students from the university work the front desk and valet along with the onsite restaurant. While the hotel could use some renovations, the students make the stay worth while. I haven't had any major issues and when something came up, they were quick to correct them. I look forward to my next visit.

The State Room food menu just keeps on being disappointing - it's the curse of Stillwater restaurants. Starts off promising & hopeful, but never really gets better... just kind of slowly descends in to deeper and deeper mediocrity. Srsly, $8 for chips + salsa?? And why are the salads so samey-samey? Why has the caesar salad not made it onto the standard menu, and why are the non-meat options still so dismal? There's been PLENTY of time to fix that stuff up; at this point, it just feels like questionable management. Now that Bayou Bistreaux is open, The State Room's appeal is falling fast. The one thing that has remained solid is the service - h/t to the front-of-the-house staff over there.

I'm struggling with writing a balanced review. The rooms are beautifully decorated and comfortable. Some have tubs some don't. The views of campus are great and the breakfast is good. Had an air conditioner issue my first night & called for assistance. They couldn't send a mechanic until next day. No fans available. Kept sending videos of the extremely loud AC until they finally found me a new room (at 11pm). Took me hounding the front desk to get the change. Valet on check out had one person working and took 45 mins to get my car. Spoke w/front desk about room rate, which waa adjusted the first night b/c i had to move but they still charged me my full rate 2nd night for a lesser room. Front desk was curt,informed me I was already getting a good rate for a nice room. Customer service is lacking. Valet needs more than 1 person. Attitude of front desk seemed to be i should be grateful they let me stay in their hotel.

This is a fantastic Hotel. The rooms are so elegant and the staff were excellent. We will definitely be back if we are in the area.

Ok so we didn't know what we were getting into going to a hotel on campus. My son was on a recruiting visit so thought let's stay on campus to get a feel for things. Well we were pleasantly surprised and impressed by not just the hotel but the staff. The rooms are spacious. The amenities were great and I can't say enough what a great job the staff did. They appeared to be students at OSU and this was not just a job for them. They took pride in making sure we had a nice stay. So thank you Taylor, Bella, Mariah and Tony.

Biggest bed is a queen. :-( I expected a king option; if you're not sleeping alone be prepared to get elbowed in the face. The Atherton has several different sized rooms and additional space to meet with clients. A5 least one of the non bedrooms has a grand piano (major plus!), and another has a full wet bar. We stayed in a room with a common space, very fancy, very nice.Disappointed in the small beds. Beautiful little hotel.Validation for parking.

Staff blamed website for everything. Would not work with us or even print a bill. Two different staff members were absolutely unaccommodating. We were horribly overcharged and did not get what we reserved. Rooms were small. Included breakfast totally uninspired and more like a Holiday Inn Express. Oh and the parking is expensive and sucks. I strongly suggest staying elsewhere.

This was an exceptional hotel down to the wine glasses and coffee mugs in the room. Completely run by OSU students, they did an amazing job from the initial welcome into the hotel, the business meeting cocktails, to the final goodbye. The location is prime and the accommodations were stellar. This is a must for repeat business.

My husband and I came here to stay for a few nights right after our wedding. We arrived Friday night, coming directly from our reception. We had to wait in the lobby for nearly 30 minutes to check in, even though I was in my wedding dress and we were carrying luggage and gifts. The woman working the front desk said it was her very first day, so it was understandable why she wasn't able to get us checked in. However, they should have had someone there to help her. After she gave us our room key, we went up to our room and the key didn't work. We tried it a few times and then heard someone from inside the room tell us it was occupied. We went back downstairs and she gave us a different room key for a different room. We went back upstairs and tried the room key again and it still didn't work. So we went back downstairs and got a third room key, for a completely different floor, and it finally worked. We managed to finally make it into our room around 12:30 am and weren't even offered waters or drinks or anything after all of the inconveniences. The next day we had planned to eat a nice, honeymoon dinner down at Ranchers Club and when we called earlier that day they were already completely booked up for the entirety of our stay. We spent the day resting and recovering in our room with nothing to do but watch low-quality, cable TV, and we weren't able to find anything good as there was no channel list or TV guide. We also had to kill a big beetle that got into our room. We tried to leave later that day to go have dinner somewhere else, but it cost us $15 for every day we parked at the hotel. Usually when parking in a parking garage at a hotel, I can expect to get a voucher since I'm already paying hundreds of dollars to stay at the hotel. However, the parking garage charged us $45 to park. The day before our wedding, we stayed at the Springhill Suites by Marriott in Stillwater. The service was phenomenal and they even offered my husband and I free drinks and snacks for the entire weekend. The staff went outside and lit firepits so that we could site with our friends after the rehearsal dinner and catch up. The Springhill Suites was half the cost of the Atherton, the rooms and bathrooms were twice as big, the service was phenomenal, the breakfast was great and free, and it was bug-free. There was plenty of parking and that also was completely free. We will never be staying at the Atherton again or recommending it to anyone.