I stayed here for 3 nights for business travel. The hotel was very clean, well appointed, and had comfortable rooms. The dining options were a bit limited, but there were several places to eat a close distance to the hotel.

If you like real big hotels with lots of hustle and bustle, this could be your type of place...

Stayed three nights here while attending a conference in the adjoining convention center. First thing I noticed was how BIG this place is. I almost got lost several times just trying to walk around to check out the pool, restaurant, access walkways to the convention center, and the lobby areas.

The front desk person was very smug, bordering on arrogant, but got the job done without delay. Several of my colleagues said that the front desk wasn't overly cooperative in honoring their floor and room requests, however...

My room was large, clean, and properly climate controlled. I found it to be excellent, with a picture window displaying striking views of the nearby city center skyscrapers.

What I didn't care much for was the huge size of the hotel, the crowded lobby areas and just too much hustle-bustle all the time. Also, the doorman brought me some one else's suitcase when I gave him my ticket where it had been stored on check-out morning - not good. The cabbies practically got into a fight over who was going to be taking me at the front entrance.

Just a little too busy, too big, too much going on all the time. Not exactly restful. Their restaurant and cafe prices were unneccesarily overpriced as well.

The hotel is accross the street from a park, with a fun playground for kids, which is not often seen in the middle of the city. There was a jazz festival held on the park grounds during our stay, where we actually got to see Reuben Studdard perform.

To visit other districts, it's about a 7 block walk to a monorail station, which we used for travel to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. If you don't want to walk 7 blocks to the monorail, the hotel provides a free shuttle that takes you to the station. Unfortunately, the shuttle driver never showed up, so we walked. The hotel offers guests corporate discounts for the Museum of Natural Science, which saves you money, and you can purchase tickets from a Members line at the museum which saves time. Be sure to check with the concierge for these little perks.

In the afternoon, the hotel offered free juice in the lobby, which was refreshing after a day at the museum and a 15 minute walk back from the monorail station.

The hotel swimming pool w/ jacuzzi is indoor, on the 24th floor on the west side of the building with wonderful views of the Houston skyline. There's an outdoor observation deck where people can sun bathe or just enjoy the view.

The only downside (for me) was that I felt the front desk could have been more knowledgable about corporate policies. Because I purchased the stay via Priceline, a few members of the front desk would not take my HHonors account number, saying I would not earn points for my stay, which I totally understand. However, I still get points for incidentals (which they were denying). I called their corporate offices to verify and had to make this point before the front desk would enter my number into their systems. A little frustrating...

With all said, we had a very pleasant stay and would definitely visit Houston again.

Recently finished a 4 night stay at Hilton Americas Houston. This is a nice property, somewhere in a 3 to 3/12 star/diamod rating. I try to keep my reviews limited to the property in question, not the weather and other non essential matters.

Check in was flawless and quick. The front desk was staffed with several clerks. This is a very large property, lots of rooms and guests.

The hotel is connected to the Brown Convention Center, which is nice when in town for a convention, they have two separate enclosed bridges on the 2nd and 3rd floors.

Beware of the parking situation, valet is $26.00 a day and standard is $15.00 per day.

No upgrades were available as the hotel was booked solid. The room was a decent size and was clean. The carpet and bed skirts showed their age, but all in all it was acceptable. There is in room wireless access for $11.00 a day, or you can go down to the lobby for free access.

The beds were a bit too soft for my liking and the water pressure (I was on the 17th floor) was nothing short of pathetic. The rooms were fairly well appoionted in what would expect of a property such as this.

Ate at the breakfast buffet for $17.00, and it was okay, nothing to write home about, but there was lots of fresh freuit and juice.

Went out to the front of the hotel for a late night cigar 11:30 pm and our group was approached by a pan handling crack addict named Jackson. There were are a lot of folks out at this time and I could only help but think this could have been avoided with a bit of a Security presence. Many guests from the lobby bar were outside and there was no real threat at all, but it was way too tacky, seeing as Jackson was on the hotels property.

The pool is on the 25th floor and is inside. They do have an outside deck area which connects to the pool. Lots of kiddies, but all were well behaved. There is no pool side service at all.

The hotel is what you would expect of a large 3 star property. Walking distance to Minute Maid Park is 10 minutes and an easy walk at that.

2 nearby restaurants which were reccommended by the concierge which turned out to be outstanding choices were: Vic and Anthony's Steakhouse (a 3-5 minute walk) and La Griglia a wonderful Italian restaurant in River Oaks (a 10 minute cab ride).

All in all, this was a pleasant stay.