luxury treat, high priced, excellent cooking, first class wine-list, old english fashioned interior: The Palace Arms at the Brown Palace hotel (historic site): the lamb, with a Colorado-herb and salt-crust.

and for a jazz-night: don't miss a visit to the Chapultepec: no entrance fee, no reservations taken, an american-jazz-institution (the old fashioned way), situated just across the Coors baseball stadium (East side), easy walking from the main railway-station (sorry - I don't have the address handy).

The Comfort Inn, in downtown Denver connected (and run by) the famous and historic Brown Palace, proved to be for us a very reasonable hotel (nov-98, and Gisela again in march-99). You share, with the Brown Palace, the Ballroom, the health club, the access (and charge possibilities) at all Restaurants (The Arms=****) and Bars, you can ask the Brown Palace concierge for his services/assistance, and you can sit (for hours) in the magnificient lobby hall (4 o'clock tea/coffee). We paid (double, breakfast incl,) $75/room, the Brown palace would be twice (on weekends) or three times that prize. The rooms are "like an airport-Marriott".

[This message has been edited by Rudi (edited 07-21-1999).]