The company I work for has their annual Holiday Party in center city Philadelphia, PA. They reserve a block of rooms at the hotel where the party is held for people to stay over night after the party, if they wish.
For two years I opted to stay overnight, since it is a 45 minute drive for me to get to center city. One year we were at the Bellevue and the next year at the Ritz Carlton. Two very high end hotels.

The Bellevue was nice, as Sapper said in the first post "comfortably average". Maybe slightly above average.

The Ritz, on the other hand, was a disappointment all around. Not only the tiny room (for two of us, at the discounted rate of $180.00 a night), the non-working TV (which was OK cause we wouldn't have watched it anyway), the lack of coffee in the morning (it was available in the lobby but we happened to get down there just as they ran out. They went to refill the urns, and we waited around for a while but we left before they returned). But the whole Holiday Party there was a disappointment, the food, the band, the long lines for drinks, and why did they have to keep the ballroom so dark, it was like a cave. You'd think they'd never held a party there before.

We just expected better due to their "reputation", it was the Ritz Carlton, after all.