This was a horrible hotel. My husband and I were stuck in Denver due bad weather for two days and the airline put us up in this hotel (on a Thursday). About 10 of us were sent to the hotel at around 12am, and with two staff members working the front desk, it took them more than an hour to get us all checked into rooms. The first night my husband and I were put in a room with twin beds. When we asked to change rooms for the following night, they still could not “find a clean room with a king size bed.”

The room was bearable, but unfortunately, our stay did not improve. The first room were placed in a room without working cable pay-per-view. Next we were moved to a room that supposedly had working cable (still in twin beds), but we did not have consistent pay per view cable service. While the maintenance people were kind and helpful, the problem was never fully resolved.

Fortunately, there were restaurants walking distance from the hotel (something we learned since hotel restaurant closes in the middle of the day). We made the mistake of eating dinner in the hotel restaurant where the food was barely edible. My husband and I both order the ribs which were too greasy, too fatty and barely warm served with cold French fries. It was so bad we passed on dinner and got Cheetos from the snack store downstairs.

Finally, the worst was the dirty sheets. Before bed I pulled down my bedding to go to bed which felt itchy and found that the sheets were covered with human hair! I called the front desk and they were very apologetic and called housekeeping to change the sheets. They were promptly changed 10 minutes later. However, our stay was nothing short of infuriating. Unless you’re forced by the airport to stay there, I would never recommend this hotel!

Booked through Priceline for a quick stay in Denver for a wedding. This hotel is still going through renovations. I believe it may have been a Holiday Inn before. It has some great features, the lobby and conference rooms look great, and the breakfast bar was very nice. However, some of the not-so-nice features of the beat up Holiday Inn still show through the paint and recarpeting. Some doors to the pool seemed too beat up to work correctly (the card access). The exercise room is nice -- although pretty obviously it is a former pair of hotel rooms converted into an exercise room. While rooms have received paint and carpet, the vents, sinks and floors seem to show some battering from the old days. Rooms also smelled a bit stuffy. Halls are somewhat narrow, and the housekeeping staff held loud conversations in Spanish outside the door. At one point, as I was coming back to the room, the maid was frowning at her checklist, then proceeded to enter our room without announcing herself (my wife was inside). Fortunately I intervened but certainly this shows a problem.

Overall, the renovated Red Lion is not bad, but there are a few troublesome problems here and there that leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Booked a night's stay through Priceline. Payed $38. Enjoyed the hotel, but only because it was cheap. I wouldn't say it was particularly NICE but it was adequate for the price. A great deal, actually. I would have been disappointed if I'd have paid $109. Not a bad hotel.

We hunted for economical accommodation in and around Denver Airport. The Red Lion Hotel Denver Central(sic) proved a great bargain, only $62.30 plus taxes booked on the web. Not only was the accommodation of a good standard but on our return the newly refurbished rooms were superb. The staff, ALL of them, could not have been more helpful. The shuttle service was excellent. The journey to/from the airport took 25 minutes with a stop at the Doubletree Hotel, nearby. There was also an afternoon shuttle to/from the Northfields Shopping Mall-10mins. We used it to go for dinner one evening at one of the fine restaurants there, as well as dining at the Doubletree just for a change. A taxi cost $9 one/way. The hotel happily provide an “extra” morning service as one of the shuttle vans was free. We even used public transport to visit downtown Denver’s famous 16th Street Mall, (also with free shuttle) 33/43 mins. Superb breakfasts were served in our room. We had a meal in the hotel’s Café/Bar.