The Atherton Hotel At OSU

This hotel is awesome. I stayed here with my wife for a whole weekend and it was great. The meals are with a lot of high quality food. not cheap donuts like in other hotels. The rooms are in a very high standard, with great and soft beds and also with a lof ot fine touches. It is very easy to find so that why I trully recommend this hotel and i’m gonna be here again, that’s for sure.

I’ve stayed at the Atherton twice — once for two nights in a presidential suite with a couple of my friends, the second time for one night with my wife in one of the interior rooms. Let’s not kid ourselves; the place is expensive. But you get what you pay for: nicely furnished rooms, impeccable cleanliness, friendly inviting staff, and — most importantly in my opinion — walking distance to any campus events you might be attending as well as the Strip with its multiple food and drink opportunities. There’s a great restaurant inside — the Rancher’s Club — that has a pricy dinner but also hosts the complimentary breakfast each morning. The price is still a bit of a detraction for me, as are the lack of windows in the interior rooms. It didn’t bother me so much but a friend of mine who’s more than a tad claustrophobic couldn’t stand it.

I stayed here for a humanities conference on campus I was attending, and it was within walking distance of all the buildings I needed to get to and all the places we retired to for social festivities after the business of the day was done. My room was very nice, with a great soft bed and sweet little touches. I really, really love the shampoo and conditioner they give you, for instance! They’re scented with sweet oranges and make my hair smell amazing. I wish I could buy full size bottles! The maids did not bother me (which can be a problem with some hotels) and my stay was very relaxing. Although maybe they should’ve, because my one complaint is that I don’t think the rooms are cleaned as well as they could be. They’re fine if you don’t look too closely, but I happened to be looking for an extra electrical outlet and glanced behind the nightstand to find a HUGE dead cockroach lying in the dust. It scared me quite a bit before I realized it was dead, and it was certainly an unwelcome surprise. But I tried to forget it was there and enjoy my stay, and it was okay after that. I didn’t want to make a big deal of it or bother anyone at the front desk, but now that I think of it, I probably should have just rang them and asked if someone could come and remove it, especially with as much as I was paying for the room (I got a conference discount, but still). I don’t like bugs, even dead ones.
Anyway! On a better note, the complimentary breakfast is lovely and substantial, not cheap doughnuts and apples like some hotels. There were hot pancakes, potatoes, eggs, sausage, bacon, danishes, bagels, coffee, orange juice, milk, and fruit. So that was a nice touch.
Apart from the one little blip, my stay at the Atherton was great. I would stay there again if I am ever in Stillwater for business or another conference.

I stayed here at the beginning of January 2009. I arrived late and was greeted by an extremely friendly (and cute) young lady, who was most likely a student. My room was quite nice, with good bedding, down pillows, free internet (wireless and ethernet), flat screen LCD, and an iHome clock radio that let me listen to my iPhone music through its speakers (once I was in airplane mode). Everything was clean and charming. Breakfast at the restaurant downstairs was a buffet, though the selection was rather limited.
I definitely recommend the Atherton. It’s one of the nicest campus hotels I’ve ever seen.

One of the nicest hotels I’ve been to — small, well done, clean rooms, bathrooms with nice touches, and friendly staff. And they have free rubber duckies in the tub. I’ll definitely go back if I’m in Stillwater.