Originally Posted by shinbal
What other posters have said is true. There is very little to do/eat at the airport hotels. There is a Ruby Tuesday, a movie theater, a Bob Evans, and that's about it - but again, good luck getting the hotel shuttles to take you there. They are not walkable.
Heh, I forgot about Bob Evans and Ruby Tuesday. Wow, the rest of that post looks like a clear reason to stay elsewhere just for the logistics of it, or perhaps rent a vehicle.
There isn't really anywhere else reasonable to stay without a rental car, though, is there? I dunno much about Hunt Valley, but it's hard to imagine the ride from one end to the other on the light rail would be good, or that it would be any more accessible on foot than the BWI area. Inner Harbor seems like it. Given that this is only a few days, with this many rooms you may easily still save vs Inner Harbor even if you rent a passenger van (or multiple cars) and then stay...where? I dunno, somewhere outside of Inner Harbor and BWI for sure. BWI is not always that much cheaper than Inner Harbor. Places to the north and west will be more convenient to Pimlico, but I'm not sure of logistics if you don't want to drive and park there. I will say that I've never had a big problem driving to and parking in the Inner Harbor area if you wanted to do that for sightseeing.
Just more to consider....