Chicago Marriott Midway

My family stayed here for four nights the latter part of July 2023. The hotel lists that they have an indoor pool available for guests. Come to find out, the hotel has contracted with a local swimming school and lets them run classes from 4 PM to 8 PM in the evening, which means guests only have access to half of the pool, if the school even gives you that much. The first night, they did give us half, and while having the school there was annoying, we tolerated it. The second night we tried to swim, the school was using the entire pool when we arrived. The manager of that night's classes moved them to the same side of the pool and proceeded to relocate the floating divider so that the empty side of the pool was about a quarter of the pool. They’d given us a lane that was about 4 to 6 feet wide – basically, we could stand next to each other in the water and take turns swimming the length of the pool, but we couldn’t pass each other or all swim at once. As for the classes themselves, they had 3 classes running for the entire four hours, each with 2-3 kids in them. If you’ve ever been inside a swim school, then you already know that the noise level was insane. The three instructors yell directions at the swimmers for the majority of the time. On top of the issues with the pool itself, each of the kids had at least one parent with them. Some had multiple adults and siblings waiting for them, which meant you couldn’t use any of the chairs in the swim area.

Not the property's fault -- I was disturbed by the playing children next door screaming while I was trying to nap as well as the baby who cried most of the night. I don't even blame the children, it's what they do but it made the stay difficult as I hadn't had much sleep the previous night either and had to get up SUPER early (4:00 am) for a flight.