Property Location
With a stay at Extended Stay America - Dallas - Vantage Point Dr. in Dallas (Park Central), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of NorthPark Center and White Rock Lake. This hotel is 5.2 mi (8.3 km) from Galleria Dallas and 10.5 mi (17 km) from Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
- Richland College - 2.5 km / 1.6 mi
- Valley View Center - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi
- Museum of Biblical Art - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi
- NorthPark Center - 8 km / 5 mi
- Galleria Dallas - 8.3 km / 5.2 mi
- University of Texas at Dallas - 9.8 km / 6.1 mi
- Celestial Park - 9.9 km / 6.2 mi
- White Rock Lake - 10.4 km / 6.5 mi
- Plaza at Preston Center - 10.8 km / 6.7 mi
- George W Bush Presidential Library and Museum \- 10.9 km / 6.7 mi
- Mockingbird Station Shopping - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi
- Angelika Film Center - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi
- Knox-Henderson Shopping District - 11.7 km / 7.3 mi
- Granada Theater - 11.7 km / 7.3 mi
- Southern Methodist University (SMU) - 12.3 km / 7.7 mi .The nearest airports are: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) - 36.8 km / 22.9 mi
- Love Field Airport (DAL) - 22.5 km / 14 mi .The preferred airport for Extended Stay America - Dallas - Vantage Point Dr. is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).
Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 131 guestrooms, featuring kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops. 32-inch flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and microwaves.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, laundry facilities, and coffee/tea in a common area. Free self parking is available onsite.
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HORRIBLE
No rooms available when I arrived to check in for my one week reservation. They charged my credit card anyways. Nobody answers the phone when Priceline calls, so I am unable to get a refund still. I will never book with this hotel again.
It beats sleeping under a bridge
Tomorrow my 62-day stay at this property comes to an end. I was really satisfied at an ESA in Maryland and booked my reservation in Dallas with that satisfaction in mind. It's really been eye-opening at how different 2 hotels with the same name on the door can be. This room was not cleaned prior to my check-in and it has not been cleaned during the entirety of my stay. The card keys that ESA uses are really flaky, prone to demagnetizing. That is only an irritant if you can go to the desk and get the key reprogrammed. If, like the Vantage Point property, the office is locked during what are ostensibly business hours then you just cannot get into your room. I have no complaints about any specific employee of this business. The problem is that there are not enough of them. The owners of the business will not hire enough people to run this property, which consists of 3 aging buildings and equally decrepit laundry machines, etc. Things are going to break, and that means that the lobby has to be locked while the lone employee attends to the problem du jour. The management here is atrocious. I'm told that the owners have only had this business for a few months. If so, maybe it will improve in future. But for now, stay away. P.S. Question below: "Do you know if this hotel had doctors on-call 24/7?" Hilarious.
Providing detail on stock review questions
I think these stock questions leave a lot unsaid. Attempting to remedy that here. Q1: Does this hotel have laundry service? A1: They have self-service laundry (coin operated machines). Good thing because this "extended stay" hotel hasn't changed my bedding / towels in the 7 weeks I've been there. Just be aware the self-service adds to the total cost of residency. Q2: Does this hotel have a fitness center? A2: Yes, but it is closed. Like the coffee service in the lobby it is a victim of COVID-19. Or so we're told. Q3: Sleep Quality A3: I'm rating this low, but it is not directly the fault of hotel mgmt., but rather a couple of guests with ongoing car alarm problems. A result of having an impoverished clientele. Q4: How expensive is this hotel? A4: Lower than Budget. Sub-budget.
This property is on lockdown
Six weeks in at this property. (That's 6 weeks with no housekeeping of any kind, but that's another post.) The owner of this property has it on lockdown: private security, parking lot blocked to prevent ingress/egress, and a 10:00PM curfew. Yes, a curfew! A woman working the front desk here (despite the posted office hours the office may or may not be open to customers at any given time) said that this property has been under new ownership for several months. I don't know if the new owners planned this, if it was the frequent visits by police, or maybe it was that gun fire was heard once too often. Anyway, no information is communicated that would guide residents on the new protocol. Is there a certain time that the parking lot is to be blocked? Certain days of the week? Can you appeal to some authority if you have to go to work, or have an emergency that may require your car to exit the parking lot? We're not told anything. I wouldn't leave a zero-star review because it doesn't actually rain on me in my room and the climate control works, but a one-star review is justified.
This is a slum
Booked this room sight unseen from out of state. On check-in I was told that due to COVID-19 the weekly housekeeping was now done bi-weekly. I've been there 3 weeks so far with no housekeeping done. On check-in: 2 lamps had broken bulbs, the microwave oven is missing its rotating glass tray, the towels and bedding are tissue-paper thin, kitchen sink leaks a little, bathroom faucet leaks when in use, toilet fails to fully shut off every other flush, bathtub is slow to drain, bathtub has caulk (or fossilized soap scum). There are a couple of unpainted patches on the wall, apparently where appliances were previously installed. All furnishings are beat to hell. Office hours are posted outside but the office is sometimes locked during those hours. Honestly, the owners could not make it more clear that their intent is to put no money into the business at all, but to just extract every penny they can from the property before closing the doors permanently.