Hilton HHonors - Hampton Inn Dallas/West End

Anybody have recent experience with this Category 2 property? Old/New? I'll probably be there 5 days in late Apr-05. Other two properties I'm considering are ES -Stemmons and HS - Stemmons. Thanks.

Anybody have recent experience with this Category 2 property? Old/New? I'll probably be there 5 days in late Apr-05. Other two properties I'm considering are ES -Stemmons and HS - Stemmons. Thanks.

It's older, but in relatively decent shape and is downtown. If you are visiting downtown then this is the one I would choose. I don't recall the HS - Stemmons although there is now an HGI - Stemmons.

I believe the Hampton has the best location out of the three with easy walking to downtown restaurants and entertainment. If you want to go out of the city then consider the Hilton on NW Highway or Lincoln Center which are both cat 3 I believe.

I personally dont like this property. IMHO it has a very dark, dingy, run down 'feel' to it. It's fairly unique in the Hampton line in that it's a high rise... and the area around it is kind of seedy after about 7PM. Curb-side parking 4free is non-existant - and onsite parking is either $7 or $10 per nite, I forgot exactly - which does adds up if you're going to stay there for a week. :td:

Recently had a 1 week stay booked there... but after I arrived and scoped it out, for the above reasons, I moved on to Walnut Hill and 35. The WH location and it's manager and staff are quite friendly... and the free happy hour offerings (locally imported Mexican hors d'oeuvre, and Pizza Hut, etc) were enjoyable.

The West End Hampton is kind of hard to get in and out of too, I thought, with so many one way streets downtown.

I personally dont like this property. IMHO it has a very dark, dingy, run down 'feel' to it. It's fairly unique in the Hampton line in that it's a high rise... and the area around it is kind of seedy after about 7PM. Curb-side parking 4free is non-existant - and onsite parking is either $7 or $10 per nite, I forgot exactly - which does adds up if you're going to stay there for a week. :td:

Recently had a 1 week stay booked there... but after I arrived and scoped it out, for the above reasons, I moved on to Walnut Hill and 35. The WH location and it's manager and staff are quite friendly... and the free happy hour offerings (locally imported Mexican hors d'oeuvre, and Pizza Hut, etc) were enjoyable.

The West End Hampton is kind of hard to get in and out of too, I thought, with so many one way streets downtown.

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I agree "but"....stayed there last summer and it was 1 of the first HI's to get remodeled w/ new signage, colors... so it is much brighter. It was also Mary Kay Summer Training/Incentive/Recognitions (like every summer with MK'ers in/out and bus svc to the Conv Center) so it was very busy and then some.

Garage is tricky to get in/out of w/ all the one-way streets but you are within walking distance to the West End (semi-dead retail wise but still has cool bars, clubs and restaurants) along with all the JFK stuff nearby too.

I'm staying here right now. It's an aging high-rise in a sketchy block not far from the Greyhound station. The Hampton-brand remodel was a noble effort but it doesn't rescue the place. Currently it is booked to bursting with Katrina refugees, these poor people, lined up to use the one lobby computer to fill out their FEMA online relief applications, so it's kind of a circus here. Staff doing their level best to cope, but next time I will book the nearby HGI for a few dollars more.

Looks like this property is no longer a Hilton of any sort - it's just the West End Hotel now...

http://www.westendhoteldallas.com/

Too bad - I needed an HHonors property downtown and there are precious few now!