Choosing your base in United States
Choose the part of the country first. For each destination, compare a walkable or transit-based stay with one that needs a car, including parking and the daily journey in the cost.
Explore destinations in United States
Albuquerque
Albuquerque is in New Mexico. Choose the local area around the visits or event that brings you here, then compare the arrival and daily journeys.
Read the guide →Arizona
Arizona is a state, so it needs a route rather than one hotel base. Choose the cities and other stops you want to combine before booking nights.
Read the guide →Atlanta
Atlanta is Georgia's capital. Choose the local area around the purpose of your visit, then compare the arrival and repeated daily journeys.
Read the guide →Austin
Austin is Texas's capital. Choose the part of the city where you expect to spend your time and check the route back to the hotel after evening plans.
Read the guide →Baltimore
Baltimore is in Maryland. Choose the hotel area around the specific places you need to reach, with the arrival route included in the comparison.
Read the guide →Boston
Boston sits on a peninsula at the head of Massachusetts Bay, with the Charles River separating it from Cambridge and Logan Airport just across the harbour in East Boston. Most hotels are in Back Bay, with others downtown, in the Seaport and over the river in Cambridge, and the compact centre is easy to cover on foot or by the T.
Read the guide →Charleston
This guide covers Charleston, South Carolina. Choose a local base around your planned walks or outings and the way you will arrive.
Read the guide →Charlotte
Charlotte is in North Carolina. Choose a base around your main daily destination and the airport or station used for the trip.
Read the guide →Chicago
Chicago stretches along the south-west shore of Lake Michigan, with the Loop business district at its heart and the 'L' train network radiating out to the North, West and South Sides. Most hotels sit downtown in the Loop and around the Magnificent Mile, with a second large cluster beside O'Hare airport that is a poor base for sightseeing.
Read the guide →Columbus
This guide covers Columbus, Ohio. Choose the hotel area around your main destination, particularly when the trip is for a specific event, campus visit or appointment.
Read the guide →Dallas
Dallas is in northern Texas. Choose the part of the metropolitan area your visit actually uses before comparing hotels across a broad search.
Read the guide →Denver
Denver sits a mile above sea level where the High Plains meet the Front Range of the Rockies, with a compact downtown running from Union Station and LoDo up to the State Capitol. Light and commuter rail reach the suburbs and the airport, but many visitors spend their days in the mountains, where ski resorts lie roughly two hours west along I-70.
Read the guide →Detroit
Detroit is on the Detroit River in Michigan. Choose the part of the city that serves your visit and check your actual arrival route.
Read the guide →Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is on Florida's Atlantic coast. Separate a beach stay from an overnight connection before deciding where to book.
Read the guide →Fort Worth
Fort Worth is a separate city from Dallas within the wider north Texas metropolitan area. Choose accommodation around the places you intend to use locally.
Read the guide →Honolulu
Honolulu covers the sunny south shore of Oahu, from Pearl Harbor and the airport in the west to Diamond Head and Hawaii Kai in the east. Nearly all visitor hotels sit in Waikiki, a compact strip between the beach and the Ala Wai Canal, with smaller clusters at Ala Moana, Kakaako and downtown around the harbour.
Read the guide →Houston
Houston is a large Texas city where the useful hotel area depends on the purpose of the visit. Begin with the exact places you need to reach.
Read the guide →Jacksonville
Jacksonville is in northeastern Florida. The broad city destination needs a more precise local-area choice before you compare hotels.
Read the guide →Kansas City
This guide uses Kansas City, Missouri as its starting point. The wider metropolitan area crosses a state line, so check the exact address and local destination you need.
Read the guide →Las Vegas
Las Vegas lies in a desert valley in southern Nevada, and visitor life runs along two corridors: the four-mile line of casino resorts on Las Vegas Boulevard, most of it technically in unincorporated Paradise rather than the city, and the older Downtown around Fremont Street to the north. Harry Reid International Airport sits about two miles from the Boulevard.
Read the guide →Los Angeles
Los Angeles is less one city than a wide basin of separate centres joined by freeways, from Downtown and Hollywood inland to Santa Monica on the Pacific. Metro rail links several of them, but distances are long and peak-hour traffic is heavy, so the district you sleep in decides how much of each day goes on the road.
Read the guide →Louisville
Louisville is in Kentucky. Start with the specific part of the city your visit needs, especially if an event or appointment anchors the trip.
Read the guide →Memphis
Memphis is on the Mississippi River in Tennessee. Decide which part of the city you want to explore and how you will return to the hotel in the evening.
Read the guide →Miami
Miami sits on Biscayne Bay at the southern tip of mainland Florida, with its downtown and the Brickell towers on the mainland and Miami Beach, a separate city, on a barrier island across the causeways. Beach hotels cluster in South Beach and along Collins Avenue, while business and cruise travellers tend to stay downtown near the Metromover loop.
Read the guide →Miami Beach
Miami Beach is a coastal city distinct from mainland Miami. Choose the local part of the beach area that fits your plans and check how you will travel beyond it.
Read the guide →Minneapolis
Minneapolis is in Minnesota. Choose the specific part of the metropolitan area your visit uses before comparing hotels under a wider regional label.
Read the guide →Nashville
Nashville is Tennessee's capital. Decide how close you want to stay to the places you will use in the evening, then look closely at the sleeping conditions.
Read the guide →New Orleans
New Orleans fills a bend of the Mississippi in south-east Louisiana, with the French Quarter and the Central Business District beside the river and the Garden District and Uptown stretching upstream along the St Charles Avenue streetcar. Most visitors stay in the Quarter or the CBD, with guesthouses in the Marigny, Tremé and Mid-City for a quieter base.
Read the guide →New York
New York City spreads across five boroughs at the mouth of the Hudson, but most visitors sleep in Manhattan, the narrow island between the Hudson and East rivers. The subway runs around the clock, so a room in Long Island City, Brooklyn or across the river in Jersey City can work as well as Midtown if it sits near the right line.
Read the guide →Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City is the state capital. Choose the local base around the purpose of your visit and the transport you will use.
Read the guide →Orlando
Orlando sits near the centre of the Florida peninsula, roughly an hour's drive from either coast, and its hotel geography is shaped by theme parks south-west of downtown. Universal is inside the city close to International Drive, while Walt Disney World is further south-west in Lake Buena Vista, so most stays are planned around a park rather than the city centre.
Read the guide →Philadelphia
Philadelphia is in Pennsylvania. Choose a neighbourhood around the visits or appointments that anchor the trip and the station or airport used for arrival.
Read the guide →Phoenix
Phoenix is Arizona's capital. Choose the local area around your plans before comparing properties across the wider metropolitan destination.
Read the guide →Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is in southwestern Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet. Choose the local area around the places you need to reach.
Read the guide →Portland
This guide covers Portland, Oregon. Choose a neighbourhood around your plans and compare the route from your actual arrival point.
Read the guide →Richmond
This guide covers Richmond, Virginia. Choose accommodation around the purpose of your visit and the route used for arrival.
Read the guide →Sacramento
Sacramento is California's capital. Choose a local base around your main visits and the arrival or onward route.
Read the guide →Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is Utah's capital. Separate a city stay from a base for outings farther into the region before choosing accommodation.
Read the guide →San Antonio
San Antonio is a large south Texas city with a compact visitor core: the River Walk loops one level below downtown streets past the Alamo, the convention centre and Rivercenter mall. Along the river's Museum Reach to the north lies the Pearl, while the King William district and the Spanish colonial missions of the national historical park stretch to the south.
Read the guide →San Diego
San Diego is on Southern California's Pacific coast. Choose the local area around your plans, then compare the hotel with the beach, venue or neighbourhood you expect to use.
Read the guide →San Francisco
San Francisco covers the hilly tip of a peninsula between the Pacific and the bay, and most of its hotels cluster in the north-east corner around Union Square, the Financial District, SoMa and Fisherman's Wharf. The city is compact enough for Muni, BART, cable cars and walking, while steep streets and costly parking make a car more burden than help.
Read the guide →San Jose
This guide covers San Jose in California's Bay Area. Choose the local base around your planned visits and the actual airport used for arrival.
Read the guide →Savannah
Savannah is in coastal Georgia beside the Savannah River. Choose the part of the city you want to explore and check the approach to the hotel with luggage.
Read the guide →Seattle
Seattle is in Washington State in the Pacific Northwest. Choose a local base from your planned visits and the connection used for arrival.
Read the guide →St. Louis
St. Louis is in Missouri near the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Choose the local area according to your planned visits and arrival route.
Read the guide →Tampa
Tampa is on Florida's Gulf Coast. Choose between a city base and accommodation used mainly around an arrival or onward connection.
Read the guide →Washington D.C.
Washington, D.C. lies on the Potomac between Maryland and Virginia, with the National Mall and its museums and monuments at the centre and the Metrorail network reaching out into both states. Hotels are spread across the city's East End, West End and Georgetown, with many more beside Metro stations in Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda and Silver Spring.
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Before choosing a room
Read the whole-stay total for mandatory hotel charges and confirm the bed arrangement for everyone travelling.
Compare the exact room category, including bed layout, cancellation terms and the full stay total. Hotel photographs may show several categories. If a detail matters to you, look for it in the room description or ask the property.
Where guest evidence is available, use it to investigate specific questions about the stay. Read the supporting comments and their dates. A neighbourhood description cannot establish how quiet an individual room will be.
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Our stay advice is editorial guidance. Room facilities, transport services and hotel offers can change. Confirm the details for your trip before booking.