Downtown Denver

After a bit more than a week of hiking in the mountains we treated ourselves to a couple of nights in downtown Denver. Last year we also visited Denver but stayed a bit outside of town in a crappy motel. Then I promised myself that next time we come here we will stay in a nice hotel downtown. We both like this city very much, it has everything we were missing in Phoenix. It has a very nice city center with an abundance of restaurants, cafés and shops.

After some research I found a boutique hotel called the Magnolia just one block off the 16th Street pedestrian mall. The hotel is located in an old bank building built in 1910 and they have kept some of its old style. There is a free bus going up and down 16th Street so it is very easy to get to any restaurant or shop of your choice.

Everything we needed was included, breakfast and wifi. Parking was unfortunately additional like any other nice downtown hotel. There was a parking garage just next door which was better deal than using the hotel valet parking. A bonus though was the complimentary wine and beer in the early evening and the late evening milk and cookies (!).

The room was very spacious with a kitchen, living room and bedroom. The bedroom even had a walk-in closet. Basically it was probably bigger than my apartment in Stockholm…

We can warmly recommend this hotel which made our stay in Denver a very enjoyable one. We spent a couple of days just enjoying the hotel and the fact that we could walk to everything we needed.