Downtown Des Moines Hotels

We%26#39;ll be in DM over Thanksgiving weekend to visit family and we%26#39;re planning to leave the kids with Grandma and Grandpa one night so we can go out among the grownups. Can anybody recommend a nice hotel probably downtown that%26#39;s within walking distance of fun bars and/or restaurants? We%26#39;ve stayed at the Marriott there before and it was okay, but I don%26#39;t remember if it%26#39;s close to anything. Please help!

Downtown Des Moines Hotels

You might want to consider staying at the Embassy Suites. The hotel is conveniently located in downtown Des Moines along the river and I believe it was just renovated this year. There are many restaurants nearby (within walking distance) and I really think that you would enjoy staying at the Embassy Suites. The manager%26#39;s reception at night and cooked to order breakfast in the morning are always an added bonus to staying at an Embassy Suites!

Downtown Des Moines Hotels

ScottyDoo,

Thanks for the recommendation. We did stay at the Embassy Suites and it was really nice. They even called us a couple of days in advance to confirm our reservation and to let us know that there would be 800 high-school kids staying there at the same time, in case we wanted to cancel. We decided to tough it out since the hotel is so close to Court Avenue and yes, we do love the breakfast they serve.

Did I see a post by you on the Las Vegas forum too?

You%26#39;re very welcome! I am glad that you enjoyed staying at the Embassy Suites. I thought that the Embassy Suites would be the perfect place for you to stay, and it looks like I was right.

I do occasionally post on the Las Vegas forum, but I don%26#39;t like the fact that people can get a little nasty on that particular forum sometimes and treat it as a chat room. I have found that many posts on the LV forum contain unhelpful, non-travel related information that is often inappropriate and in some cases, offensive.

I forgot to mention that if you haven%26#39;t already done so, please feel free to submit a review regarding your recent stay at the Embassy Suites in Des Moines.

Please cut it out! Would you be kind enough to leave me alone for once and stop saying that every brand/type of hotel that I recommend is upscale! This is getting very annoying and it better stop ASAP! I DO NOT appreciate your smart remarks and unhelpful comments and I am sick and tired of you following me around the different forums of this website.

Unfortunately this person is one of those that I was talking about earlier. They have been kicked out of the Trip Advisor forums several times, but keep finding a way to come back using a different user name. They used to just make these unhelpful and inappropriate comments/posts on the Las Vegas forum, but now they keep following me around and keep posting the same thing (about hotels being upscale) to topics in different forums that I have responded to.

It looks like they%26#39;ve been kicked out again, hopefully for good this time!