My husband and I stayed here for our anniversary and then we stayed in a suite for a couple days, a couple of weeks after Ike when we had lived w/o electricity just to cool off. But as I said the staff was snobby, it was over priced for what we got. The Hotel ZaZa, Houstonian and the Omni are much better for the money!

The hotel is in a nice area but the rooms are old and over priced and the bar in it atracts a really bad crowed

1. The suites have doors that join the rooms and the sound of the guests on the other side can heard very easily.
2. Curtains in room are really thin, so if you need a dark room to sleep, good luck.

Other than that....wonderful hotel. Very polite employees and nice/clean rooms.

I am someone who spoiled myself by always staying in nice, trendy, and boutique hotels and living here in Houston I was intrigued by what I heard about Hotel Derek. My girlfriend and I decided one night to spend the evening out and made reservations to stay at the Hotel Derek. The lobby was very trendy and I must say I was somewhat impressed. However, it went downhill from there. After we got into the elevator, I could tell that the hotel had done a great deal of renovating. I applaud the effort but your guests should not be able to tell when you painted over something or covered something with wallpaper. I do not know if they had not finished their renovations but some things that obviously needed replacing were still in plain view. This continued even into our room. The furniture was okay but again it seemed as if they did not finish renovating the room. The window sill looked like it needed some work and there was also a vague musty smell to the room. Overall, I did not hate the hotel but it doesn't come close to comparing to the hotels with whom it competes. I would say check it out for yourself but Hotel Derek is definitely not the leader of boutique hotels in Houston.

this hotel claims to work with people on their choices,but then will tell you we cant do that are thats extra.they will be together the most simple and plain package together then all of the cute things are extra.the cake company that they deal with using frozen cakes only,was told never fresh not even when paying extra.on our groom cake they forgot to add cute topping that he asked for, they told us to come monday and they will fix cake,or give us somthing else,we had a sunday wedding.