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Great Value, Great Location

The Jet Hotel offers great value for a night's stay in downtown Denver's LoDo (Lower Downtown) district. This small 19-room hotel is accessible to some of Denver's finest restaurants downtown, including the Samba Room and Tamayo near Larimer Square, and is also near great local retailers like Rockmount for western apparel (a landmark Colorado institution) and Tattered Cover Books, a comfortable sprawling loft-style bookstore offering author readings, espresso, and a great selection of new releases and suggested titles. MCA Denver -- the Museum of Contemporary Art -- is also within walking distance for a look at a variety of contemporary visual art works, sculpture, installation and video.



The Jet Hotel, itself, is a modest but comfortable hotel. The entry and lounge is small and intimate, and shares a sleek minimal aesthetic keeping with contemporary design tastes. And the guest room I stayed in was comfortable, and somewhat insular from street noise below. It helped that it snowed overnight, keeping pedestrian and car traffic to a minimum.



That said, the hotel seems like it needs some fit-and-finish touches to improve the overall furnishings around the hotel. For instance, our vertical blinds off the balcony in the room were broken, and there were some exposed cables. The room's floor entry foyer off the elevator bank was dark even in daylight hours, and seemed unfinished with furnishings like framed hallway mirrors on the floor.



These are only minor examples. I would stay at the Jet Hotel again for it's location and value. It's also a nice space and nearly fits in a comparable class of boutique hotel like Hotel MAX in Seattle and the MODA Hotel in Vancouver, B.C.