Holiday Inn Express Baltimore At The Stadiums

Definitely not the best place I’ve stayed in B’More, but not the worst. Fits your needs if you’re just going to use a room to sleep and shower in. I stayed with my family and was a bit peeved that they didn’t have any double bed rooms available, but they did accommodate with pull out beds.
In walking distance from both M&T Stadium and Camden Yards, I’d definitely consider staying again at the price point for a short stay.

No coffee in the room, no comforters. Breakfast was weak.
The employees were nice and the office came in handy for my bus ticket.
There is a $ 20 parking charge for some reason so we just ended up parking at the casino parking garage.

The water took forever to warm up, I literally stood in the shower for 5min waiting for the water to warm up. It is also right next to a major road, so it is really loud and noisy around that area (barely got any sleep). Only good side is that it is right next to the city so it is somewhat of a walking distance to everything, and the horseshoe casino is literally right next door so for the gamblers that’s good.

One of the worst hotels we’ve stayed at. $ 220 per night for a run down, worn out room! Stay Away’

Better than I expected. The complimentary breakfast included hot food. Not great quality, but OK.
Location is an easy walk to the stadium.
The rooms were OK. Air conditioning was effective, but a bit loud. Everything was clean.

I stayed at the Holiday Inn express in Baltimore for the weekend of 10÷16−10÷19. I booked 2 rooms with 2 month advance notice. on 10/​15, I called to change one of the rooms to be a 3 night stay instead of 4. When I arrived, things went smoothly, until Friday when the check in for the second room took place. Holiday Inn originally quoted me $ 1192.00 for the entire stay of both rooms and suddenly I had a total of 2600 charges pending on my card. Concerned, I asked multiple times to speak to a manager and the staff said they would have someone call me. I called after not hearing back and the front desk lady hung up on me. I called again and no results. I went to the front desk multiple times throughout the day and no manager was on site. I was told Sunday, the manager Jim would be there by 8AM. I waited till 8:30AM and then was told Erica, the other manager would come at 11AM. No one showed up. The staff had no idea what was going on and they were just incompetent and rude. I called your corporate office on Sunday ¹⁰⁄₁₈ and again I was told a manager would call me back. I didn’t hold my breath. I am yet to hear back. This organization needs serious training on customer service.
Good Riddance!

Stayed here for business. The Wifi here was terrible. I was on the 2^nd floor on the casino side, and I could barely send an email. Because I had to submit reports and do research at night, this was unacceptable.
Besides the horrible Wifi, everything else about this hotel was average. Only good thing was the complimentary breakfast.

I picked this hotel due to proximity to Carroll Park but the price was high for what they gave you. I stayed two nights and they did not replenish my in room coffee. I don’t like being tentatively charged for parking when I said at check in I did not have a car. The system should be able to handle it. The room was clean so that was a plus! If you are attending something at M&T or Camden Yards the location is great.

Stayed here on a weekend for an O’s game and to check out the casino next door to the hotel. First time in Baltimore, so I wasn’t too sure what to expect, but I had a pretty good time overall at the hotel. Front desk held our bags so we could explore the city a little bit. Parking is $ 20 a day, but I didn’t find that to be outrageous or anything. The room was nice, definitely in line with what we paid for our stay. They offered free pancakes from 8pm to midnight, which was a nice touch. Free hot breakfast in the morning as well. Our room faced the casino so it could get kinda loud, but again, nothing we couldn’t sleep through. If you’re planning on going to an Orioles or Ravens game, you really can’t beat staying here as you can walk to both relatively easily.

Had a wionderful experience at this hotel. WO\ould recommend it especially for cruise parking.

This was one of the worst hotel stays I have had in years. I wrote a review on Holiday Inn’s website and it was rejected due to being inappropriate. I did not mention anything that wasn’t true. I feel they just don’t want to accept poor reviews and that is why it looks good on their site. Poor service from front desk and cleanliness of hotel where my main reasons for my review.

I have chosen Holiday Inn Expresses as my go to (go to sleep too tired to drive). Upon arrival with reservation, clerk needed my reservation number to find me, odd. I have road warrior written all over me, glazed eyes, coffee stains, disheveled, exhausted. She look annoyed to have to put down her phone. I gave her everything she needed and she started rattling everything pertinent to rush me off.
I was EXTREMELY incensed that it’s $ 20 a night to park! She said my hotel key will open the gate to the lot. So I drive around to lot in back of hotel– the «gate» is a bar that even if down could be ducked under/​over. Didn’t matter, it was UP, WTH? This is the middle of crap town, junkie, hookers, get the picture? I’m told to display the card they give you in window. I notice there are tons of cars w/​o one. This lot is really false security, no cameras and dark, with a short fence keeping «the hood» out. I’d feel safer parking at the lighted gas station and pay the clerk $ 20 to watch it.
There are no valet carts in sight, I had to schlep everything in one trip. Awful, because the hotel is relatively empty off season, mid week. Pass hotel clerk, doesn’t look up from her phone. This level of service can certainly be automated.
The room itself is nice enough, but totally NOT worth the $$$ ($ 145 with parking for one night). No restaurants around unless you go in the casino– which wasn’t interested or Subway.

This hotel has some things going for it and some very frustrating things about it.
If you are going to be spending a considerable amount of your stay at the casino as my friend and I were for poker, then it is the closest option. Although I wouldn’t recommend it for almost anything else as it is sort of hood down here and not much of a discount to reflect that reality, likely due to the increase demand coming from casino.
Also, the walls in this hotel must be made of paper mache’ or something.
I am currently in my room writing this review because the front desk called our room threatening to have us removed by police because of a noise complaint by our «neighbor»
My friend and I were having a normal conversation at very normal levels of speaking. Nothing that one would even consider possible to be getting a call from the front desk. Not only that but they tell us that they called us the previous night due to a noise complaint from same said neighbor.
First off, no one called our room the previous evening. period. end of story. Either the person who spoke to us is making it up or the person who reported to them that we were called was making it up.
. So either we are staying next to the crankiest old man who happens to also be the lightest sleeper ever, these are the thinnest walls ever, or some combination of both, which I believe to be the case.
Either way it is extremely frustrating being someone that tends to be awake «non-​traditional» hours, that any form of normal conversation or standard volume television options are eliminated because of the lack of the walls ability to keep even the smallest of sounds out.
The other thing that has been frustrating about the room is the heat/​cooling system. It basically will make it in the room so that you will wake up 1 – 3 times a night guaranteed just to adjust the settings because it is either a sauna or an igloo. Very tough to maintain any sort of normal an acceptable temperatures.
Also, it is $ 20 a night to park. And yes I am sure buried in their fine print it says this somewhere but the fact is most people assume when booking a rate of $ 100+ per night that this might be all inclusive enough as to let your park there without a 20% increase in payment.
The staff has actually been very polite for the most part it is just annoying having to be called and threatened with removal over something that should be a total non issue. I should never have to remain silent in the room I am paying three figures to stay in, but with these walls apparently that has what it has come to. So instead I got on here and am trying to silently type and reflect the absurdity of this situation to my fellow Unilocalers before they send Baltimore’s finest in to bust us for having a normal human conversation in a room absent of drugs, alcohol, outsiders, or anything of the sort.
So overall, just make the drive from some nicer area like hanover 15 minutes away or stay closer to the actual harbor/​downtown. This location wouldnt be worth it to almost anyone who has other options.

At least those that wish to stay at this hotel will know they have to pay for «their» room and the «parking-​room» for their vehicle. Bring a pillow! I still will not be staying at this or any other hotel in that area if they charge for vehicle parking. I realize it’s a «tourist» area and probably why the hotels want to suck more money from the person on their short vacation stay. :)
I found a much better choice at another HIE on Rt 40 with access to everything I needed, including my trips downtown.

This hotel did everything we wanted for our stay. Good location where we could walk to the stadium and Inner Harbor. And it was a clean and decent hotel for us to sleep.
Some of the reviews on here are negative and I can understand that. There were some sketchy characters hanging around outside during our stay. We didn’t pay them any mind and they didn’t bother us. You are going to get that at most hotels around this area. But it is a short walk to the stadiums from here.

Find some else to stay new. Casino going up next-​door this place will be torn down and rebuilt shortly after two room changes we finally got a room that the AC was working. Got a Bullet hole in the wall can see in in to the other room!

DO NOT stay at Holiday Inn Express Baltimore at the Stadiums. Why? Two reasons:
1) This hotel makes false claims (on its website) about its location that it is located in Inner Harbor, Baltimore. Do not be fooled. The hotel is definitely NOT in the Inner Harbor area. It is almost two miles to the Inner Harbor. It is at the Stadiums; the Stadiums are NOT in Inner Harbor. Unless you want to be at the Stadiums, DO NOT stay at this Holiday Inn Express.
2) Hotel charges for parking and then denies hotel guests parking. This hotel charged $ 15 per night for parking. We stayed at the hotel for two nights and paid for parking for two nights, June 6 and 7, 2014. On June 7, the hotel parking lot was full and we were forced to park at a Shell station across the street. When you paid hotel for parking, you expect to park at the hotel parking lot. While the hotel clerk was not rude, she did not even apologize for the inconvenience nor offered to refund our parking fee. It appeared to her to be quite normal — to deny guests parking after they have paid for parking.
Then, when we tried to park at the Shell station, the Shell employee knew NOTHING about this arrangement. He tried to call his boss but his phone ran out of power. He had to use my husband’s phone to call his boss who then gave him the OK to let us park. It took 15 minutes to sort all this out. This was 11:30 pm and this is NOT something any hotel guest should have to deal with late at night.
Unlike the hotel parking lot, the Shell station is not a secured area. So we paid $ 15 to park at an unsecured space. We might as well be parking on the street.
For these two reasons I will NEVER stay at the Holiday Inn Express at the Stadiums again. If you need parking, DO NOT stay at this hotel because you may find yourself denied parking even after you paid for it and sent to god only knows which gas station in the area. If you want to be in Inner Harbor, Baltimore, DO NOT stay at this hotel because it is NOT in Inner Harbor despite its claims on its website.
PLUS, the traffic at the Stadiums is horrendous especially on game nights. The area this hotel is in, is generally quite shabby and not a specially nice area to be sent off to park at some gas station late at night. Oh, the wifi is pretty much useless even though free.

Is this really a Holiday Inn? Paid $$$ online. Then we were solicited by two homeless people for handouts during our check-​in process (and the new casino is not even open yet!) We were assigned the room closest to construction of new casino — was it the only room left… Room smelled bad, burnt out light bulbs, missing shower curtain (WTH!?!). Trash found on floor of room. Ear plugs were provided in the room, apparently to reduce the noise in the morning. The only positive was the maintenance man (72 yrs) showed up right away with lightbulb and shower curtain, was friendly and nice. Maybe the new casino will hire him and he can retire shortly thereafter.

Look, if you’re coming to Baltimore and don’t realize in advance that some of the city isn’t up to par with your white picket fence, Disney World standards… then this hotel or even the city for that matter, aren’t for you.
The hotel itself has gone through some significant upgrades over the years, including a fenced in, key only parking area. The slightly shady Greyhound bus station is right behind the hotel and yes, there are abandoned lots surrounding the HIE, but it’s not the fault of the hotel for this… blame the taxpayers and local officials for having an eyesore so close to the city itself.
I’ve been staying here the past two weeks for business and it has certainly grown on me. My rates have ranged from $ 108 to $ 124 a night. The staff is one of the friendliest I have ever encountered and it takes awhile for a Northerner to grow accustomed to the «how are you doing?» from random strangers who pass by. My rooms have been very nice in general and what makes me the most happy is that they not only have 40″ flatscreens in the rooms, they ALSO come with actual HD channels. So many times I’ve been in hotels where this was wasted on the good screen, here they have DirectTV to ensure that this doesn’t happen, +1 star right there. :) Oh and as a techie, this is the time to mention how fast and reliable the completely free wi-​fi is… I’ve been impressed having to do work late into the night and it never dropping the signal or timing out on a page.
Criticisms are few. Keep the pool open beyond Labor Day when it’s still in the 90’s! I don’t know why that’s a closure time for anything below the Mason-​Dixon line, somewhat annoying. Also, the workout area is in need of an upgrade, free weights would be nice. HIE’s are all over the place when it comes to the fitness centers, some extremely nicer than others… this one needs an overhaul.
The shuttle to and from town is a nice feature, it stops at the convention center, Inner Harbor and Johns Hopkins hospital… this is nice for those that don’t want to pay for parking downtown or came in on a bus themselves. A walk to the city would be quite a pain since it doesn’t look all that pedestrian friendly. There is a reason it’s also called «At the Stadiums», this is likely the best hotel for NFL fans attending a game against the Ravens. In fact, I’m lucky I got a room on a Thursday night prior to their home opener because they are for sure booked solid this upcoming weekend.
Go because it’s cheap and has FREE transportation to the city, not for the views

When I arrived at this Holiday Inn they couldn’t fulfill the booking I requested weeks ago. I reserved a two-​bed, non-​smoking room. When I arrived all they had was a room with a king bed and another with two beds but it was a smoking room. We checked the smoking room out but it smelled horrible therefore we decided to go with the room with the king bed. The manager told us he would give us a roll away bed since there was two of us.
Once we got into the room with the king bed we noticed it was much smaller. The roll away bed soon arrived and it barely fit in the room. The roll away was also unmade and the mattress was broken (I attached a picture of it). They also gave us possibly the worse room in the hotel. It was right above the lobby so we heard people talking below, and cars on the busy road. It is also advertised that they have free WiFi in the rooms but the signal wasn’t strong enough for our room apparently. Due to these circumstances we decided to check out at 10 PM and go elsewhere.
Also I’m a Priories Club member and I booked this reservation weeks in advance so this shouldn’t of happened. I also noticed that this hotel has had previous car brake-​ins. They have a fence and gate so I’m not sure if this is still a problem. Just make sure you don’t leave anything in plain view of the window. It is a shady area.