| City, State or Country: | Richmond, VA |
| Airport: | RIC |
| Hotel Name: | Doubletree |
| Connection Type: | Wireless |
| Cost: | FREE! |
| Business Center: | Yes |
| Comment Date: | May 02, 2008 |
| Score: | 8 / 10 |
| Hotel Comments: |
| Hotel is nice. They have an agreement with the YMCA 2 blocks away. Get a free day pass from the front desk to work out. YMCA facilities are great! |
| Places To Eat: |
| HIGHLY suggest a small local restaurant called "Comfort". It is a 5 minute walk from the hotel and offers southern style cooking and a menu that changes daily. Lots of good food. Only open for lunch and dinner. Closes each afternoon and reopens for dinner at 5:30pm. |
| Things To Do: |
| Free pass to the local YMCA which offers a complete cardio room, weight machines, free weights, pool, etc. Less than a 5 minute walk from the hotel. |
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| Comment Date: | March 07, 2008 |
| Score: | 5 / 10 |
| Hotel Comments: |
| Ditto on nothing special. I get about 50/50 on the van being on time. I have waited over 45 minutes on it while the front desk continues to tell us "5" minutes... |
| Places To Eat: |
| There's a diner down the road, may have already been mentioned, can't remember the name but it is on the corner and used to be an old civil war hospital. Good food, interesting people with too many piercing to make it through airport security. Also, the Rich Brau. Microbrewery with good beer and good burgers. |
| Things To Do: |
| Shockoe Bottom Brick road, tons of bars, shops. Penny Lane. A pub down the road from the hotel. The only problem is it's a Beetles theme pub and they play pretty much only Beetles music. |
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| Comment Date: | August 02, 2006 |
| Score: | 6 / 10 |
| Hotel Comments: |
| Average hotel. Nothing to write home about. |
| Places To Eat: |
| Perly's. Ask at front desk for directions. Not too far. Good home cooking w/ "comfort" foods like chicken & dumplings, corned beef, etc. all home-made. Great ambience. VERY reasonable prices. Huge sandwiches. When I was getting ready to leave, the waitress asked me if I wanted some coffee to go! |
| Things To Do: |
| Go into the Jefferson Hotel right down the street from the hotel. It's an old classic totally redone inside. It's fabulous. |
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| Comment Date: | April 06, 2006 |
| Score: | 6 / 10 |
| Hotel Comments: |
| Nice hotel, some rooms have the Sleep Number beds. Computer in the lobby is free, but internet in the room is $9.95, standard Radisson deal. Area is safe for jogging, but stay within a 3-4 block radius of the hotel, and don't go north-it gets bad. |
| Places To Eat: |
| Hotel restaurant is expensive. Go downtown or to Carytown (see below). |
| Things To Do: |
| The hotel is in downtown Richmond near the VCU campus. About 8 blocks east is the Shockoe Slip and Bottom area, with lots of restaurants and bars. Capital Ale House has a good house brew, and Cafe Europa has good food. Many places to eat here. West of the hotel in Carytown there are lots more little shops and restaurants, inlcuding a great Thai place. You could easily spend an afternoon and evening in either of these places. The hotel van will take you time permitting, otherwise it's a cheap taxi ride. |
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| Comment Date: | November 30, 2004 |
| Score: | 5 / 10 |
| Hotel Comments: |
| Standard(expensive)hotel restuarant. Free computer in the lobby with highspeed internet access. Small workout room with treadmill, bike and nautilis equipment. Hotel is in historic district. Walk just one block East and you find yourself in a not so safe area. |
| Places To Eat: |
| Not much around the hotel at all. |
| Things To Do: |
| Hotel will provide transportation to the Shockobottom (Sp?) area where there are plenty of places to eat and places to see. Kind of far to walk. This is Richmond's main nightlife area. This area was pretty much destroyed this past summer by flooding from the remanants of one of the hurricanes and is still being rebuilt. Hotel people say it's still not worth going down there right now (12/04). |
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