HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS HTL & STES

By • Excellent value in downtown Minneapolis

Overall Rating: 10   Location [10] • Room [10] • Service [8] • Value [10]

This hotel was a great value for a downtown location--$30 less per night than the discounted conference rate for the Hilton across the street. Amenities include: a nice-sized pool; a hot tub; an exercise room with good equipment; complimentary newspaper; high-speed internet access in the room; complimentary fresh fruit available throughout the day and evening in the breakast area; and a complimen... [more]tary breakfast that included fresh pineapple.

Staff was helpful--even allowing a late check-out to accomodate my schedule. Located two blocks from Convention Center.

On-site parking was limited, but a public
lot across the street was convenient. [less]
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By Trip Tutorial User from Southern Illinois • not such a good deal

Overall Rating: 6   Location [8] • Room [10] • Service [6] • Value [4]

I stayed at this hotel thinking it was a great bargain. Due to the last person's post, I was deceived to believe that it was the only hotel downtown in which parking was fee. It's not. Their own lot next to the hotel is $12 per day! Others in the area are between $5 and $8 a day. The public lot across the street is $11.50 per day - so not much of a bargain there. I swore up and down ... [more]to the staff that I had read on the web that their parking was free; turned out that I had gotten that from the previous poster and misunderstood him. The female staff person at check-in time was quite rude to me regarding my being upset about this, and was relunctant to offer me any alternative parking choices that were cheaper, saying only to me that "it's the same price at any other lot downtown". She did not apologize. I was ready to look for a different motel for my other nights (4 nights in total), but decided to stay. Other than her, the staff was adequately friendly and helpful, but not overly so by any means. The motel was nice, but I've stayed in much nicer motels in other towns and for $60-70 instead of $100. If you do stay here and will be away from the hotel during the day as I was (I was taking a class at a college in St. Paul), i discovered that you can park your car easily along the street about one block away for free. They are metered spaces, but only checked 8 AM - 6 PM and even then are not expensive (4 hour limit). Heck of a lot better than spending $48 for four days of parking! [less]
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By classyuke54 from East Bethel, MN • We love the service and the people!

Overall Rating: 10   Location [10] • Room [10] • Service [10] • Value [10]

The room was great, the service was fantastic
and the people who helped us were cooperative, very friendly and very nice. I'd recommend this place to anyone and everyone.
I can't wait to go back and celebrate my 25th
wedding anniversary.
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