When my wife and I travel to Denver we usually stay at the Marriot on the 16th Ave mall. However, this time their rates were quite high, so I shopped around and landed on the fairly new Hampton Inn a couple of blocks from the mall. It was an excellent pick! Everything about the hotel and the very accommodating staff impressed us. But one thing in particular amazed us...the size of our room...it was huge for a budget hotel! (It was not a suite either.) In fact, it was so big that we and our three Denver buddies blew off eating out one night, brought pizza and beer up to the room and watched football there. The staff brought in nice high-back chairs from the conference room, so everyone had a comfortable chair and view of the big TV!

This is a very nice hotel. Good rooms, nice size too, clean, and well kept. Walking to 16th St or 17th is very easy. Parking is the only problem here. Their nightly parking is expensive and the only other option is uncovered, public parking.

I assumed since it was a Hampton and there are parking lots all around the hotel, they would have a self park option. They don't...only a $20 valet service which is a joke. The lots adjacent to the hotel are privately owned. I parked next to the hotel and paid the ticket not realizing they had no overnight parking. My car was towed. For the rest of my trip I was constantly having to run outside and pay a box to keep my car from being towed...either at 6 am or 6 pm. I would not stay here again!

We were in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival and stayed here for 3 nights. The rooms are very large for a Hampton. The front desk staff were very friendly and gave great advice on places to eat. It's only a few blocks from the downtown pedestrian mall. The pool and Jacuzzi were nice. Beware of the cab drivers - most of them didn't know where they were going, thankfully we used our GPS on the phone to help navigate. Take the pedicab/rickshaw rides, they are a blast and the drivers are a hoot!