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Hotel Report: Comfort Inn, Denver
Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Getting a room in downtown Denver for a long time was difficult, so I was bounced around to three different hotels during my stay here. Going to Vernal and Grand Junction didn’t help.
The Comfort Inn in downtown Denver is a nice place to stay but has some strange features due to it being an old [...]

Hotel Report: Holiday Inn Express, Vernal, UT
Saturday, September 8th, 2007

The Holiday Inn Express Vernal - Dinosaurland was the only available lodging in either Grand Junction, CO, or Vernal, UT, on the days when I needed it, so I visited Vernal first. It is so new that HAL has not negotiated any corporate pricing with it yet. Holiday Inn Express has always been the [...]

Hotel Report: Holiday Inn Denver Airport
Monday, August 27th, 2007

I stayed a night at the Holiday Inn Denver-International Airport Area while waiting for my 6:30AM flight.
The staff was very friendly right off the bat, offering me a Platinum upgrade and calling my room to make sure everything was ok.
My room was upgraded to a Board Room, which is a room-and-a-half. The half-room [...]

Gillette has a good number of hotels; just not very many available ones. Some companies have rented out entire hotels to house their crews. I was able to get a room at the Best Western Tower West Lodge.
The queen bed I slept in was quite old: one actually sank into the bed, especially if sitting [...]

While in Casper I stayed at the Holiday Inn on the River (local web site / Holiday Inn site). They had offered me the Presidential suite the first night, but I wouldn’t have been able to keep it for the whole stay.
I got an average room with a king-size bed. The normal mattress and pillows [...]