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Hilton Garden Inn Champaign/Urbana
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1501 S Neil St
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 352-9970
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 352-9970
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8 reviews for Hilton Garden Inn Champaign/Urbana
Awesome staff,
Awesome bartender,
Awesome Cobb Salad with steak
Waffle fries.
Very comfy beds that make me wanna move in
Only con is the fact that walls are really thin and I can hear when the person next door to me uses the bathroom.
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Nice hotel options in Chambanavoy are limited at best. If you're in the city for something related to the university, you'll want to stay at a hotel close to campus. But the only one that is actually walkable (and also happens to be very nice) is the hotel at the Illini Union. But it is almost always booked. So - you have to start expanding your search radius past the edge of campus. The Hilton Garden Inn is out there a bit past the auditorium. If they try to convince you that it is close to campus slap them for being dishonest. This is in no way close to campus. You will be taking taxis. There doesn't seem to be bus service (at least the employees at the hotel don't know of any), and there is no shuttle service unless you're going to the airport.
Rooms are nice enough - but I wish they had used more than cardboard to separate the rooms. I could hear the cleaning staff knocking on doors from the other end of the hallway at 9:00 AM in the morning. Groggy Michael does not like this. Plus, when you flush the toilet it sounds like you're launching a torpedo from a submarine, and the sink is so loud I kept on thinking a shower was being taken! This also means that you know when anybody within about 100 feeet of you in any direction is using their bathroom. Loud loud loud loud!
Bed is OK. Instead of having a normal mattress, they have some sort of faux Tempur-pedic mattress. Not a huge fan of that, but it was OK I guess. Sheets were clean and OK, but certainly not high end.
Most staff members were very helpful and nice, but the keyword there is "most". Internet was speedy and free. Parking was plentiful, as was my view of the parking lot from my room.
Next time, I'm staying at the Illini Union Hotel or the I Hotel.
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Hilton Garden Inn is one of my fave go-to hotels - and this experience continues to reaffirm my belief in their brand.
Checked in on Monday afternoon with no problems. They already had my membership number on file so I got credit for the stay. Nice clean, comfortable room. Room had a nice flat panel HD TV. Bed and pillows were comfortable. Free cookies at the front desk - peanut butter with M&Ms baked into them.
I picked up a Gatorade and a Diet Coke from the Pantry and had them added to my room bill - no fuss - no muss.
From my room, sent a print job of a Google pdf of directions for the next day's trip to Minneapolis - easy to use and no charge for the printing.
Breakfast in the hotel was good - had an English muffin with peanut butter, oatmeal with a dash of cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and some raisins, a side of bacon, plus a cup of coffee and an 8 oz. can of Tomato juice. Tasty breakfast.
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I am a slut for Hiltons, I really am, but I have a bone to pick with you, Champaign Hilton Garden Inn. I made my reservation and specifically requested a smoking room, which the Hilton Diamond line was more than happy to honor. Imagine my horror when I called to make sure I'd have a fan in my room and was told by the rude guy on the phone that you were a non-smoking property!!! In fact ALL Hilton Garden Inn's are non-smoking, ack!
HILTON, I specifically dumped my other hotel programs because you are the only hotel chain that still keeps a few rooms for those of us with an addictive habit....I have rewarded you for your thoughtful behavior by staying at your hotels billions of times and driving lots of business to you. I'm not happy about this, Hilton Garden Inn, I'm really not - could you warn a girl next time? I had to pry my mother out of her mold and cat pee infested home and move her into a semi-retirement community. Not only was I exhausted and SMELLY, but very, very stressed out as well. I just wanted a shower (a loooong one), some food, and a cigarette to go with my apres-move xanax, but nooooo, no room service (as advertised both on your website and in the posters in your elevators) and I had to GO OUTSIDE IN MY JAMMMIES to smoke. Grrrr. Furthermore, my room was dirty. There was a soda can in the trash and change scattered over the floor. Furthermore, I did not get my Diamond perk of 2 bottles of water in my room. It's a small thing, but I count on that water, Hilton, I really do. I'm usually fresh off a plane when I enter your soothing embrace, and I NEED that water. In this case, I was dirty, smelly and exhausted and I needed that water. NOT COOL, Hilton Garden Inn, NOT cool.
On the plus side, the rooms themselves are lovely, the staff is overall very friendly (props to Aubrey, the late night desk gal), the late night pantry is handy, and they do a great job on the breakfast. I'll be back as I'm so committed to the Hilton Honors program, but next time, please make sure my room is tidy and I'll make sure to pack a robe for those late night trips to the smoking zone so I don't look so scandalous in the lobby.
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the good thing you get with Hilton Garden's, you know what you are getting.
Clean hotel, below average breakfast and decent service. I have no idea what the price was like since I was there on business.
Yes, world, the new Hilton is (finally) open. Although it opened in November, as opposed to this past July as originally planned, it is, I believe, well worth the wait.
The hotel truly is a thing of beauty, with impressive columns, a gorgeous floral arrangement, and beautiful tile floors to greet you as you enter the front door. To your left is a cozy sitting area, complete with fireplace and flat-screen plasma TV. To your right, the Great American Grill, serving yummy food and drinks.
Rooms are spacious and complete with all the amenities, including ergonomic office chairs, flat-panel plasma TVs, and other fun extras in each room. The hotel is 100% non-smoking, and since it's brand new, that means that none of the rooms have been smoked in! As someone whose pet peeve is smoke, this cheers me to no end. The pool isn't quite finished yet, but the fitness center is, and it's a sight to behold. I've been to entire gyms that weren't as nice.
The hotel possesses several great ballrooms to handle whatever event you might need, and the event-planning staff is top-notch. The head event planner is one of the most with-it, on-top-of-things, sickeningly organized people I have ever met in my life, and I'm not just saying that because she's a good friend of mine. She knows how to make things happen.
The rest of the management staff are all extremely competent, gifted people who know how to go the extra mile to make a customer happy. Quite simply, they're the best, and the Champaign Hilton is lucky to have each and every one of them.
Champaign, your Hilton has arrived. Embrace it!
Clean rooms, helpful staff. Not the fanciest hotel in the world, but nice rooms for a reasonable price.
Walking distance (.5 miles) from Memorial Stadium and Assembly Hall.
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Nice hotel, but I need to deduct stars for their misleading advertising. They say they are 2 blocks from campus, which is technically true. But, it's 2 blocks from a far distant side of a very large campus and there's nothing anywhere close by.
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