Review - One Park Tower
Looking into the One Park Tower
The One Park Tower is a city business hotel. Outside you have a street scene with yellow cabs and bell boys. Walk through the revolving doors, and you’ll be in the reception of a place that has the look and feel of a three to four star conference hotel in RL.
That’s probably the best way of thinking about it, this is Second Life’s 3.5 star business hotel. It’s reasonably priced and functional.
The detail
The overall look and feel
The reception - overall the hotel is painted in brown / beige
The One Park Tower feels like it is showing it’s age. In that sense, it did remind me of a fair few chain hotels I have been to in RL.
It has a lobby, a bar and a restaurant, and inside you have various mesh figures dotted around to provide a bit of an atmosphere (e.g. congregating around reception), but like its closest RL equivalents, I’d call it more functional than anything else
Rating - 2.5 / 5
The facilities
The restaurant
There’s a bar as well as a restaurant that looks like a buffet style place you’d get in your aveage Holiday Inn. At the bar, you can “tip” the bot barman 25L and he will pour you a drink.
Pay the barman 25L for a drink
In that sense the One Park Tower Bar works the same as the Essencia Hotel Bar, except in the Essencia, the drink price is a very nominal 1L.
There is no pool, gym or spa. Again this is something that the Essencia, which also aspires to a business hotel feel, does have.
Rating - 2.5 / 5
The rooms
One Park Tower bedroom
The rooms come in at 250L and so match the junior suites at both the Rizzi on the Beach and the Essencia in terms of price.
When we checked in, half the rooms were occupied, which suggests that some people do look at the One Park Tower as a cheap accomodation option (and on that, I’ll soon be publishing a post about living in Second Life hotels).
Again, the rooms have a kind of holiday inn or Hampton Court vibe about them, you have a king size bed, a good sized bathroom, a wide screen TV and a desk. There’s also a security orb, which certainly does work, as it suceeded in kicking out one intruder three times when we were there.
Rating - 3/5
The anims
The room has an Ivette Bed by Abiss, with a decent range of anims, which took a bit of adjusting. The PG anims in the public areas, such as the bar, worked well.
Rating - 4/5
Other Considerations
Is the hotel adult? Moderate, but there are adult anims in the rooms
Privacy - Very good, the room security orb worked for us
Lag - Very little
Prices - 250L a night
Overall
The One Park Tower definitely resembles an RL hotel, but just one where you might stay for a night or two simply because of convenience. If you just want somewhere reasonable for a short period of time, it’s certainly an option.
However, a better business hotel choice is the Essencia. For the same room price you get access to a gym, pool, beach and private gardens, and the look and feel is just that much more up to date.
Alternatively, the Rizzi on the Beach also has rooms at 250L a night. This will get you a good sized junior suite, with the ability to use what for me is the best hotel pool in SL.
