The hotel’s official name is Doubletree Inn at the Colonnade by Hilton, but on the building there’s a plaque that reads, Inn at The Colonnade Baltimore.
This hotel with the very long name is located at 4 University Parkway in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore.
It’s right across the street from the humongous campus of John Hopkins University, so if your 30 Plus Teams Tour of Baltimore includes a visit to the school, this is the ideal hotel to stay at.
I’ll talk more about John Hopkins University in another post.
One of my Circle of Sisters and I were in Baltimore for our annual trip to see the Yankees and Orioles baseball game at Camden Yards.
We usually get a hotel closer to either the Inner Harbor or Downtown Baltimore, but for some reason, everybody and their mama plus Coco the dog we’re staying in town July 22-24, so the hotels we normally stay at weren’t available.
Other hotels in those areas had rooms but neither of us wanted to mortgage our houses to stay there, that’s how high the rates jumped up to on Saturday night.
My friend wasn’t too thrilled with the hotel, even though it was “cheaper”, I, however, LOVED it, and I would stay here again if I was doing a 30 Plus Teams Tour of Baltimore.
What did I like about it?
The fact that it actually is close to public transportation, as there is a bus stop right in front.
If you walk a block or two, there’s the free Charm City Circular Purple Line that stops at the major tourist attractions in town and stops at Baltimore’s Penn Station if you happened to be taking Amtrak from New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia or Boston.
The Charm City Circular stops right around the corner from the hotel.
If you’re coming from the BWI airport, you could take public transportation, but an Uber or a cab would be your best bet.
The elevators are painted with tourist attractions of the city like the Inner Harbor and the original Washington Monument, which is in Baltimore NOT the District of Columbia.
The bed in the room, which had a refrigerator and coffee maker, was very comfortable.
The Sports Diva wants to know though, Doubletree. Do we really need FOUR big pillows on the bed though?
They have a breakfast buffet in the hotel that is open from 7am until 10am and costs $14.84.
I thought it was worth it and shout out to the waitress, Jasmine, who was so friendly and kept the coffee and hand sanitizer coming.
NoNow what would a visit to a Doubletree hotel be in without the cookie you get when you check in.
If I come back to Baltimore for a 30 Plus Teams Tour, maybe even on a solo trip, I’ll come back to the hotel with the long name.
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