Anchorage Hotels Recommendation - Pre Trip

[DizMagic]

I am aware that we can book pre-trip through ABD (which I currently have) but at $438 per night we are looking at other options. We have Hilton points and could book any of their hotels (Hilton, Hampton, Embassy) at little to no cost. Anyone have experience with these? I was fired up ready to book the Hilton then saw quite a few negative reviews. We will only be there 2 nights, so not a huge deal. But I would like somewhere semi-nice. I am not completely opposed to paying for a 2 nights somewhere else if it is worth it. We would like to be centrally located (I assume that is downtown) as we won't have transportation.

 

[carpenta]

I always go onto TripAdvisor to get an idea about the hotels in the areas I travel. All the hotel pages offer a location map where it is located in the city. Pages of reviews and also I scope out the restaurants.

 

[sayhello]

The only hotels I'm familiar with in Anchorage are the Downtown Marriott (that ABD uses) and the Captain Cook, both of which are downtown. It looks like the Hilton is the only Hilton hotel that's downtown. Embassy Suites is the next closest, and the rest are all in Midtown. That said, the Homewood Suites, Embassy Suites and the Hilton Garden Inn in Midtown are #2, #3 and #4 out of 72 hotels in Anchorage on tripadvisor.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g60880-Anchorage_Alaska-Hotels.html

You might also check to see what kind of deal you can get yourself for the Downtown Marriott. I've never heard of anyone who had to change rooms if they arranged their pre-nights at the ABD hotel themselves. So you'd be all settled. Plus, you'd have the ABD transportation to the Marriott when you arrived.

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[carpenta]

The #1 item everyone needs in Alaska in the summer is black out shades in the room windows. Let's face it Alaska is a state where there is little "excess" in many aspects of life. The Alyeska (sp?) was quite nice and spa like. Beautiful hotel. Our other hotel rooms were clean and utilitarian but no Ritz Carlton. Never had a problem.

 

[AdamEfimoff]

I just wish there was more variety of luxury hotels there. I do not want to travel by boat and hate roughing it. But do want to see it

 

[sayhello]

I just wish there was more variety of luxury hotels there. I do not want to travel by boat and hate roughing it. But do want to see it

There are luxury hotels if you want to pay for them. Just depends on where you want to stay. I stayed in a gorgeous place on the Kenai peninnsula that was hardly "roughing it" (although it was surrounded by nature) and there are some really lovely hotels just outside of Denali National Park.

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