Anchorage Downtown Hotel

Ruth | July 23rd, 2010

My first impression of the newly remodeled Anchorage Downtown Hotel was clean, stylish, homey and clean.

Anchorage Downtown Hotel on K Street near 9th Avenue is a small hotel with a personality.  When new ownership took over in November they remodeled inside and out.

New paint and carpet gives some style to the place.  They had a local artist come in and paint decorative murals in the rooms.

With only 16 rooms the small size and warm hospitality create a homey feel.

All the rooms contain the necessary items to make a hotel stay pleasant.  Each room has its own bathroom and cable TV is provided.  There is an iron available and closet space.

Personally I can’t imagine what you would be doing ironing on vacation in Alaska, but I guess business travelers might find that handy.

For those of you who can’t sleep in the endless daylight they have blackout curtains.

Anchorage Downtown Hotel has parking and since this is downtown let me just throw in that it is FREE.  If you need a ride they have a shuttle.

Continental breakfast is provided and some days if things go your way you can get a real breakfast cooked by Anchorage Downtown Hotels own celebrity chef.

I’m not sure they actually said “celebrity” when we talked about it, but the guy was a fire fighter for 20 years so that should earn him celebrity status.

If he managed to cook for hungry fire fighters I imagine he can make a nice hearty breakfast!

They try to let guests know the night before when they have a full breakfast so you can plan ahead.

You may have noticed I mentioned clean twice in my first impression of the Anchorage Downtown Hotel.   I don’t care how nice your paint job is, if the room doesn’t feel clean I don’t want to stay there.

Anchorage Downtown Hotel triples the number of cleaning staff that most hotels use because they emphasize cleanliness.  The place smells clean, looks clean and feels clean.

Between the comfortable feel of the rooms and the friendliness of the staff we started feeling at home right away.  (Cleaner than my house, but I managed to feel at home anyway.)

Then we smelled that familiar smell…someone was baking.  Sure enough they bake fresh cookies every day!

I was impressed before, but as I munched on my chocolate chip cookie straight out of the oven I wondered if they would let me move in!

Check out or rather check in at the Anchorage Downtown Hotel.  The price is right and you get free cookies!