Aloft Durham Downtown Hotel
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Aloft Durham Downtown Review
Centrally positioned near American Tobacco Campus, the charming 4-star Aloft Durham Downtown Hotel offers a fitness centre, a summer terrace and a shared lounge. Located at a 300-metre distance from Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the historical hotel has 134 rooms near a train station.
Guests can enjoy breakfast in the restaurant from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM on weekends. There is a lobby bar onsite and it comes with billiards and a TV. Tobacco Road Sports Cafe serves various kinds of American dishes only a 5-minute walk from this Durham hotel.
This Durham property is based approximately 10 minutes by car from Duke Private Research University Chapel and within a 10-minute drive of Duke Park. The Aloft Durham Downtown gives access to business venues like Durham Civic Center Complex (550 metres) and American Tobacco Historic District Business Park (0.7 km).
Guests will also find convention centres and government offices adjacent to the charming accommodation, and North Carolina Central University is set 2.1 km away. Aloft Durham Downtown Hotel allows you to enjoy such natural sights as the 55-acre public Sarah P. Duke Gardens about 2.7 km away.
Some of the air-conditioned units feature a flat-screen television as well as a coffee machine. The rooms also have private bathrooms.
This Durham property is a short way to Durham bus station.
The Aloft Durham Downtown features a year-round outdoor swimming pool. At the property, guests can take part in fitness classes offered at a fitness centre. Business travellers will also appreciate a meeting room including a photocopy machine and a work desk.
Impressions
Positives and negatives
- Upscale brand-new hotel with bars and a stadium.
- Perfect location just 5 minutes' walk from American Tobacco Campus.
- Within 10 minutes' walk to the town centre.
- Modern rooms – all with big windows and free wireless internet.
- Menu offers healthy Mexican fare.
- Good prices for the area.
- Bathrooms get mixed reviews and might be quite small.
- Minor complaints about a few not very friendly employees.
Key Features
- parking
- free wifi
- non-smoking rooms
- family rooms
- restaurant
- facilities for disabled guests
- bar
- breakfast
Rooms
Facilities
Facilities
- Television
- Direct dial telephone
- AM/FM alarm clock
Rooms
- Air conditioning
- Heating
- In-room safe
- Soundproofed rooms
- Sitting area
- Terrace
- Garden furniture
- Tea and coffee facilities
- Ironing facilities
Dining facilities
- Restaurant
- Snack bar
- Bar/ Lounge area
Services
- Room service
- Car hire
- Laundry
- Dry cleaning
- Wedding services
- Wake up service
- Welcome drink
Relax
- Swimming pool
- Sun terrace
- Leisure/ TV room
- Exercise gym
- Tennis court
- Billiard tables
Activities for Kids
- Board games
- Game room
Reviews
Location
Landmarks nearby
- American Tobacco Historic District 140 m (459 ft)
- Chet Miller 470 m (1542 ft)
- Durham Bulls Athletic Park 400 m (1312 ft)
- American Tobacco Campus 10 m (33 ft)
- Durham Farmer's Market 820 m (2690 ft)
- Jordan Lake Game Lands 710 m (2329 ft)
- Lucky Strike Tower 160 m (525 ft)
- Orchard Park 760 m (2493 ft)
- Golden Belt Historic District 840 m (2756 ft)