We stayed at the Courtyard at the Ballpark in Arlington for two nights and thought that it was good, though not perfect. As the hotel is all non-smoking, I hadn’t expected a problem with this but our room had obviously originally been a smoking room and the smell still lingered on. Also I had requested a room on an upper floor but we were put on the ground floor. Having just arrived at the end of a long day’s trans-Atlantic travelling, I was disappointed with what we got but we didn’t bother to go back to the front desk and try and get a different room. Having said all that, the room was a decent size and clean and the bed was really comfortable.
Our rate included breakfast which was pretty good and the service was really friendly. There are several restaurants within a very short walk of the hotel for lunch or dinner.
The pool was fine although it’s a slightly odd design as it’s half indoors and half out. The exercise room was pretty limited with two treadmills and one bike (no weights machine) and the TV in there was broken. If you want to access the internet and don’t have your own computer then there are two PCs in the lobby area that you can use.
We stayed at the Courtyard because it was close to the ballpark. Having said that, it was 95 degrees when we were there and we didn’t fancy the walk (the ball park is probably about 10-15 minutes walk) so we took the Arlington trolleybus that runs between the local hotels and the ballpark. This service is free to hotel residents (get a voucher from the front desk) and was excellent. You are picked up outside the hotel front entrance and taken in air conditioned comfort to the ballpark (on a bit of a circuitous route via most of the other hotels!). The bus leaves the ballpark 15 minutes after the end of the game.
We paid USD 129 for our room and I felt that it was decent value. Not everything was perfect but I would happily stay there again.
