levilevi

Question about DEN access, etc... staying here at the end of a vacation, but morning flight isn't until about 1030am - and curious about dinner the night before - are there restaurants / eateries inside DEN but not airside/through security we can easily walk to from the hotel? WIll be turning in the rental car - so no driving other than a cab, and dont necessarily want to be captive to the hotel for dinner/breakfast

MileHighColorado

The only one I can think of is Boulder Beer Tap House. You might be able to get a gate pass--Root Down is good but is passed security.

RoyalFlush

In addition to Boulder Beer Tap House, there is Burger King, Cantina Grill, Caribou Coffee, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Panda Express, Red Rocks Bar & BBQ, Rocky Mountain Café, Subway, Taco Bell Express, and Vertical Mile Market

(all land-side, before security)

levilevi

Pefect - seems like enough for casual dinner and breakfast for sure!

pilotjustin

Check-in...at first one agent working the desk and a second became available. I have platinum status. Was in Gold/Platinum Line and was being skipped by guests (called over by the front desk agent) in the regular line that came after me and another man waiting. My reservation was 2 adults, 2 children in a 2 queen room. On the App, it shows a Suite with 2 King beds available, but the front desk agent apologized that this type of Suite doesn't exist and is frustrated that it hasn't been corrected. As my youngest child still sleeps in a crib, we were upgraded to an Executive Suite with a rollaway and a crib (no charge for rollaway). We were given two platinum breakfast cards which is good for 4 people total. At breakfast, the waiter says we can order whatever we want and the two cards we had were good for up to $100 total. So it appears that the platinum breakfast benefit is good for $25 per person. If I had an overnight layover in DEN again, I would definitely stay here as a platinum! BTW, TONS of pilots checking in.

Land-of-Miles

MTJ Bound

RoyalFlush

I stayed her eight times between July and October 2018. I much prefer the south facing rooms (train plaza) as opposed to north facing (Jepp terminal land-side lobby).

South facing tend to have the rainfall walk in showers. North rooms are tub-shower combos. The six floor lobby level north ADA rooms are massive.

I love their toiletries. Breakfast could be better, nothing outstanding.

I've yet to get an end-cap room.

MTJ Bound

GrayAnderson

Stayed here over the weekend (between flights on an IRROPS shuffle). If I hadn't been sitting on a pile of points, the price ($380 or so after tax) would have run me off and to one of the other hotels. As it was, forking over the 35k points was sort-of a necessity lest I miss my flight (I didn't want to play shuttle games the next morning). I really found the experience to be "meh":

-I was randomly awakened by housekeeping at about 8 PM (I got in around 2 PM and basically collapsed...my previous night had been sleepless and I had an 0630 flight to catch the next day). Nobody could tell me why Housekeeping was poking around that late in the evening. Had they knocked at 3 or 4, I would have chalked it off to my early arrival; 8 was actually a little bit disconcerting.

-The restaurant was overly expensive. Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting a bargain, but pasta+shrimp, hot tea, tax, and tip shouldn't reach USD50 (and that was with leaning back a little on the tip). It was decent food (though really only "decent", though I'll blame a few days in Quebec with excellent food being quite affordable for tinting my views there), but USD35-40 all included would have made more sense and in retrospect some decent fast food would probably have been preferable. If I stay again, I'll grab some fast food landside in the terminal (or get a meal before leaving the airport, if the circumstances are similar). The fact that I'm looking at airside food as the bargain here, though, reflects ill upon the hotel.

I realize that with this hotel I'm paying for the location (the fact that landside food at the airport is a viable alternative speaks to this), and for the record this is the classic case of why I will quietly hoard my certs to the extent that I can do so. However, had I been paying cash the hotel price was about $100-120 above my "pain point" and I'd likely simply Uber to one of the locations 4-5 miles away (which were down in the $98-130 range).

RoyalFlush

I stayed her this week, my tenth time since July.

To echo the post above, the food was just meh at best. I had steak and eggs for breakfast.

The 4 ounce (possibly 6) steak and eggs wasn't worth anywhere near $23, the potatoes were almost rotten, eggs so-so, only redeeming quality was the tasty sourdough toast.

RFB was paid by a client and I was in a total hurry to meet a six hour journey on Southwest.

Overall, nice build-out, blockbuster location, mostly smaller rooms, great WiFi, pretty poor dining, excellent workout room, I'm four outta five for the hottub working, slow front desk staff.

Save your gray hairs and stay on Tower.

GrayAnderson

@RoyalFlush: "On Tower"?

RoyalFlush

On Tower, meaning on Tower Road, the closest bank of hotels to DIA at five miles away. There are currently 21 hotels on Tower. It will be 23 shortly, once the dual branded Hilton Homewood/Tru comes online.

Four miles away from Tower is 40th Gateway in Aurora. There are currently 13 properties there. Another one is undergoing construction, but met several months of dormancy (think the ownership ran out of money or couldn't get permitting).

35 of the 36 properties are branded, most use a shared shuttle from Western.

I've stated at all except the Ramada, AmeriSuites, Wooley, and the new 1,501 room Gaylord Rockies.

Please let me know if anyone has any questions or concerns about DIA, Quebec/Stapleton, downtown, or Tech Center hotels in the Front Range area.

GrayAnderson

Noted..that sounds like the bank of hotels that were $98-130 or so. Next time, I'll be staying there if I don't have an annoyingly early flight to catch...but thanks for the advice.

Bfhause

Although this property is incredibly convenient, especially for super early flights, I don't feel that it's worth the 2-3x price premium over the plethora of other options on Tower Rd or Gateway. I would gladly spend the extra 20-30 minutes getting to Tower Road or Gateway hotels to save myself over $100/night.