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Le Meriden Chicago Oakbrook Center opened this week in the affluent western suburb of Oak Brook, Chicago about 20 miles from downtown Chicago hotels. The hotel uses Oakbrook as one word. The city name Oak Brook is two words. Oak Brook is headquarters to McDonald’s and Ace Hardware. The 172-room Le Meriden Chicago Oakbrook Center…
The InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Hotel rebranded to Loews Chicago O’Hare this week after Loews Hotels completed its acquisition of the 556-room hotel located less than two miles from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. The hotel is located across the street from Donald E. Stephen’s Convention Center in Rosemont. Loews Chicago O’Hare runs a complimentary 24-hour airport shuttle.…
by Ric Garrido
There are 14 Marriott brand hotels in the Chicago area with two hotels in Chicago offering 2,500 points per night and $25 food and beverage credit Thursday through Sunday from June 11 to August 31. This promotion requires rate code M11. Big Bonus Weekends include these freebies: – Free high speed internet access – At…
Hilton Chicago has the reputation for hosting every President of the United States as a guest from the time the Stevens Hotel opened in 1927. There is a fascinating early hotel history from 1927 with the Stevens family of Chicago who built the immense hotel only to lose it in bankruptcy with the Great Depression.…
Hotel Chicago Downtown is a recent February 2014 addition to Marriott’s Autograph Collection brand. I previously visited the hotel in 2010 when it was Hotel Sax and a Thompson boutique hotel. The location next to House of Blues and near the north bank of the Chicago River is a central downtown location.
The question came up when I was on a historic tour of Chicago asking, “What is the oldest hotel in Chicago?” Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel in the Loop is the oldest hotel in Chicago and considered the oldest continuously operating hotel in the USA. Forget all the news headlines about Chicago city violence. Chicago is…
by Ric Garrido
Within the first hour of check-in to my room at Inn of Chicago, I had a list of six room and hotel complaints. Still, I stayed and slept comfortably for free one night at Choice Hotels Inn of Chicago, Ascend Collection during the U.S. Travel Association IPW convention. The second night’s reservation I canceled without…
The best hotel deal this past week was my stay at the historic Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. Typically, I think of 100-year-old hotels having miniscule rooms where your luggage may have to sleep on the bed with you. Not the case at The Blackstone, a Renaissance brand hotel, where the room I stayed was a…
On a clear day you can see forever. Or at least 20 to 40 miles from 360 Chicago, the 94th floor of the what used to be known as the John Hancock Observatory in Chicago’s John Hancock Center and is now named 360 Chicago. The 360 Chicago name describes the experience perfectly with miles and…
by Ric Garrido
On February 12, I set a travel savings task for myself with Challenge tutorial: 7 nights in Chicago for $700 during IPW convention with the objective to find seven nights in downtown Chicago for $700 during a convention with 7,000 attendees. Chicago plans changed within a couple of days of writing my post as I accepted…
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