I started with the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown in June 2004, and with the exception of a short stint in Austin, TX, I have been here since. I returned from TX in January 2008 to work again at this beautiful downtown Indy hotel as the Leisure & Online Sales Manager.
Here I am responsible for the following markets: Social, Military, Education, Religious, Fraternal, Sports, Entertainment, Group Tours and Associations. Did I leave anything out? I also manage our online presence - the third party reservation sites, our
hgi.com site, Twitter, Facebook and this blog; I also create most of the hotel's packages you can see
online.
Other facts about me: I received my BS in Tourism, Convention & Event Management in 2006 from IUPUI. Concerts are my thing. Music is my addiction and I fork over paychecks to travel for shows all over the country, especially Phish. I love sushi, the color blue, summer time, family, friends and my work here at this three star hotel downtown Indianapolis!
Just hours ago, Travelocity posted an
article about the Top 5
other Christmas trees to see this year...that is, outside of the world-famous tree at Rockefeller Center in NYC. Our very own "tree," built around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Monument Circle, made the list! I don't know how one could not get into the Christmas spirit with this multi-colored, 284' tall beauty.
The trees that stand up to Rockefeller Center:
1. Biltmore Estate, North Carolina - 34' Fraser fir tree in the ballroom
2. Galleria, Dallas - Texan style with 250,000 lights standing 95' tall
3. Monument Circle, Indianapolis - 284' tall with 4784 lights and 52 strands of garland
4. Toledo Zoo, Ohio - 85' tall and glittering with 35,000 lights
5. Coeur d'Alene Resort, Idaho - 191' live tree decked out with 30,000 lights
What is unique about the Monument Circle display just steps from our historic hotel Indianapolis? Well, it's the only tree on the list that you can see from the inside. Visitors can ride to the top of the monument (21' shorter than the Statue of Liberty). From there you get what Travelocity has dubbed a reindeer's view from the top.
Come visit Indy for Christmas. Stay at our downtown Indianapolis hotel and ask for a room facing Monument Circle for the best view of Indy's most magnificent holiday centerpiece.
Happy Holidays from the staff at the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown!
Christmas seems like it gets here earlier and earlier every year and Thanksgiving is JUST around the corner! Before you know it you are taking out your menorah or Christmas tree, lighting that first candle and wrapping presents when you realize you forgot to search for that perfect hotel, one where your in-laws would really at home.
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is that perfect hotel. All decorated for the holiday season, our downtown Indy hotel staff wants your family to have a wonderful holiday season without being in your hair 24/7!
Our hotel accommodations Indianapolis feature over-sized guest rooms with a complimentary refrigerator and microwave. Your family will have all the comforts of home while not sleeping on your sofa. Each of our guest rooms also includes complimentary Wi-Fi and local calls.
For families with children, you might suggest Aunt Harriett and Uncle Harry reserve one of our Indianapolis hotel packages, like the Circle Centre Shopping Package. This particular hotel deal Indianapolis includes a $100 American Express gift card to use anywhere AmEx is accepted. They will also receive a gift bag full of gifts from Simon Malls and coupons to use while shopping. Finally, the package includes breakfast for two in the hotel’s Great American Grill!
We have other Indianapolis hotel packages available if they’d like to consider our Bed n 
Breakfast deal or another money-saving option. Tell your family to call our friendly Front Desk reps at 317-955-9700 or to book online today.
Tip: Our rates during holidays are usually quite low compared to the rest of the year! SHH! Don’t tell anyone, this is just between us. ALSO, you can earn Double HHonors Points or a free night stay certificate before December 31st with four stays!
Ways to participate in Super Bowl XLVI without a ticket, ideas 5-1:
5. Check out the new Chase Near East side Legacy Center and Indianapolis Youth Education Town
The NFL supports the development of a Youth Education Town in each city. This leaves a lasting legacy for the youth and families in the area. Indy's Super Bowl will focus on Arsenal Tech High School. You can see the webcam of the center's pr ogres here.
4. Stay Connected with Super Bowl XLVI
Sign up for newsletters and updates leading up to the Big Game. Keep in touch with 1st & Green, Super Service and more! Keep in touch with our hotel as well! Find the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown on Facebook and Twitter!
3. Encourage kids to be active with the NFL Play 60 Challenge
You've probably seen the commercials. This program is geared toward schools, but you can certainly apply its principles to your neighborhood, after-school care, kids, etc. The challenge to to get kids outside and playing actively for 60 minutes a day at school and home. Let's help prevent childhood obesity! Our Indianapolis meeting hotel staff is considering starting up a workout program a couple evenings a week. The cookies at the Front Desk continue to put pounds on all of us! Ha!
2. Celebrate "all things football" in Super Bowl Village
Georgia Street is under construction to turn into a great pedestrian-only boulevard in the heart of downtown Indianapolis. It will lead directly to the NFL Fan Experience in the convention center. We are one of many hotels near the Indianapolis Convention Center even at six blocks away. NFL will be represented with all 32 franchises surrounded by bars, nightlife, great dining and live music!
1. Be your own pro-football star at the NFL Experience
An interactive theme park dedicated to football? Yes, please! Memorabilia. Kids' football clinics. Autograph sessions. More. More! MORE!! The most exciting thing? TICKETS ARE AFFORDABLE FOR THE NORMAL PERSON!
As you might have guessed, hotels are sold out, restaurants will be packed and to get to Super Bowl XLVI the normal person may have to sell an organ or their soul. I'm sure to be on call 24/7 and sleeping in the office that weekend. Luckily, we just ordered new, comfortable (I hope) chairs. Ha!
There are plenty of other ways to get involved with the Super Bowl in downtown Indianapolis starting right now! A list created by the Super Bowl Host Committee gives us the top ten things we can do to be involved in the BIG GAME without a ticket!
10. Fight breast cancer with Indy's Super Cure
Indy has partnered with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at IU Simon Cancer Center. You can contribute financially, become a tissue donor to increase the diversity of breast tissue samples received to help fight cancer and/or volunteer at the Komen Tissue Bank. Tissue donation events will be taking place up to and including the week of Super Bowl XLVI.
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown management team is participating in this. Our green hotel Indianapolis is very proud to be a part of this challenge. You can sign up as an individual or an organization. You track green activities on, at least, a weekly basis. Activities such as planting a tree, reducing your shower time, choosing for alternate transportation and opting for reusable shopping bags are tracked.
Blue and white, handmade scarves will be presented to all volunteer staff. If 8000 scarves are made, excess scarves will be given to front line hospitality employees who will provide
SUPER SERVICE for our city's guests!
It's pretty simple. Plant a tree - you can track it in 1st & Green or volunteer with
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful to participate in a planned tree planting. Trees provide so many benefits to the environment and, let's face it, they're pretty. Function & form, form & function. Our downtown Indy hotel usually participated with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful each year for a downtown cleanup.
6. Participate in neighborhood cleanups to leave a lasting
legacy
This project is focused around the near east side of Indy. The idea is to leave a lasting impression of this civic project well beyond the Super Bowl.
We may not be able to help you with
hotel reservations Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, but you can always get involved in other ways. I'm just excited to be working and living downtown during this event!
Lady Victory, the 38' tall bronze sculpture who has sat on top of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument since 1893, returns to her spot overlooking the city, 284 feet above ground. Victory was removed in the spring time and split into four pieces so she could be restored to her original grandeur. Crews tried to place her atop the Monument last Tuesday through Friday but Mother Nature would not cooperate with unfavorable wind conditions.
The job isn't over yet. Victory, who is also known as Miss Indiana, still has to be finished, waxed and buffed. Not that kind of wax! She will be finished by crews working on scaffolding to finish her off with bronze finisher, patina and clear coat to restore her golden brown color before adding the wax protectant. It' just like having your car repainted!
Lady Victory was standing in the northwest quad of Monument Circle for four days before workers attempted putting her back up. This was the first time in 117 years people could get close to her. Traffic just around the Circle from our three star hotel downtown Indianapolis was backed up while residents and visitors stopped to take photos. None of mine turned out very well.
Our historic hotel Indianapolis has 12 guest rooms which overlook Monument Circle and Lady Victory. They peak around the Chase building until you get higher up and look over Chase. Make your hotel reservations Indianapolis with us and request a "22 room" for the view. They're usually in high demand, so we don't guarantee them, but you can always step out of our doors and look up if you don't get the room. We're that close.
Photos courtesy of
www.wibc.com
"When things go smoothly at a hotel, there is really no way to judge how they truly operate. It is when a problem occurs, that you can tell what management's attitude is."
This is my new favorite hotel quote. A guest recently stayed at our hotel and wrote about her visit on the blog 2 Wired 2 Tired. Although we have many guests stay with us who may review their stay on Expedia, TripAdvisor and through Hilton's guest satisfaction survey, it really catches our interest when a guest posts something on their blog. Blogging a review usually evokes more of a story-telling dialog and we can find out more in depth how things went instead of a simple satisfaction scale.
We had no idea "Tired Grandma Judy" was here to write about her stay and her trip to Indianapolis. So when our General Manager came to the morning staff stand up meeting with her blog post, we were excited to hear what she wrote. Of course we'd like it to be a glowing review of our downtown Indy hotel! It wasn't. As soon as we heard the quote above, we all took a deep breath, preparing ourselves for what we were about to hear.
Upon settling in to their room, Judy and Grandpa Randy had multiple phone calls from the Front Desk but no one could be heard on the line. Then a knock on their door presented someone from our maintenance department to switch out the broken phone, which Grandpa Randy said wasn't needed. Another phone call and Judy "was beginning to get irritated."
They opened the door again and there stood Megan Mills, our Guest Service Manager and Dave Kalbfleisch, Chief Maintenance Engineer. Megan explained that one of the valet drivers accidentally scratched the bumper of their car on a wall and she wanted them to come down to look at it. Maintenance was still there ready to replace the phone.
"The damage to our car was minor [but] the Hilton Garden Inn offered us a rental to get around the city the next day, while they got it repaired. I told them I just wanted to take it home to the person I knew. They agreed and asked us to get an estimate and they would mail the check out immediately."
After day two passed and they hadn't yet received the check, Judy was followed up with by our General Manager, Richard Letko. The check was received the next day to cover the scratches. "We were very pleased."
"Pleased with the valet for reporting it, he easily could not have and we probably would not have noticed until after we had left Indianapolis. We were also pleased with the front desk for being persistent and handling the incident in an appropriate manner."
PHEW! What a relief! Although we're never happy when a guest has an issue or inconvenience during their stay, we are pleased that we were proactive in contacting the guest, being completely candid about what happened and quick in following up and resolving what happened.
Judy goes on to say,
"The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown would be my recommendation for those attending the Super Bowl in 2012, the Big Ten Championship Football Game, or those simply visiting Indianapolis."
Thank you, Judy and Randy, for staying with us this time. I am SO happy to hear everything turned out all right and we handled your situation in an appropriate manner. I hope you will stay with the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown again the next time you are in or through Indianapolis. We would be pleased to have you stay with us again...sans bumper scratches.
*****
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As downtown Indianapolis strives to be a more bike-friendly city, commuters are urged to start pedaling instead of driving. Our green hotel Indianapolis supports this cause! The
Indy Bike Hub is currently under construction next to the
Indianapolis City Market. The Indy Bike Hub, a facility of the YMCA is a place where commuters can ride their bike into downtown and securely park it for the day until ready to return home.
The Indy Bike Hub will feature secure, indoor parking for 148 bike! Bicycle Garage Indy will also have an area for sales, service and bike rental, too. Not only is this a bicycle transportation hub, the
YMCA will have strength and cardio equipment, group classes and personal training! So really a new gym and wellness center will be opening just two blocks away from our downtown Indy hotel!
Don't worry about being sweaty after you ride. Before you walk into work, park your bike and take a shower in the locker room. All you have to do is roll out of bed , throw on some comfy riding clothes, park it, shower, dress and walk to work! I'm moving 3.5 miles from work and I'd rather ride my bike than the bus so this will be a great option when I get settled! The Indy Bike Hub is only two blocks from our Indianapolis meeting hotel.
From what I understand we can buy a day pass, get a full
YMCA membership or buy a bike/shower only membership! How exciting! Grand opening is September 14th!
Visit them on
Facebook!
How many times do start off a blog post with something like, "In my effort to save you some cash..."? Well, here's another one. In my effort to save you some cash, I thought I'd write about this idea I surfed upon on
Indianapolis Downtown, Inc.'s website:
50 Date Ideas Under $50!!!!
The ideas range in price from FREE to Under $25 and Under $50. Our green hotel Indianapolis is right in the center of it all and ready to help you save some money! Here are some of my FREE favorites (some modified based on my own experience):
Some of my Under $25 favorites:
And the Under $50 faves:
Don't forget we have some great Indianapolis hotel packages to save you even more money. Though we can't offer rooms under $50, we do have room + tickets + breakfast type packages that give you a good discount when bundled! Don't forget to make your reservations at our downtown Indy hotel if you're tooling around downtown checking out these cool spots!
I've only done six of the 15 on my list...but I hope to experience more of Indy. I just signed a lease for 18 months so I'm sure I'll be around to see and do more!
On June 6, 2011 the Big Ten announced the
Big Ten Football championship will be held in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium 2012-2015. Indianapolis was already selected to host the inaugural championship on December 3, 2011 at Lucas Oil. This comes as a big win for the city as we will begin trading the Big Ten Men's and Women's Basketball Championships with Chicago. The games will take place in Chicago in 2013 and 2015.
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is on the hotels near Lucas Oil Stadium. It's about seven blocks from our hotel and about a ten minute walk. If you are looking for a three star hotel downtown Indianapolis, we still have rooms available for Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3 for the Big Ten Football Championship. Make your hotel reservations Indianapolis today by
visiting our website or calling 317-955-9700. Or for Indianapolis group travel, we may have a discount available for your group of ten or more rooms. Call Lindsay at 317-405-5710 to check group reservations availability.
(Photo courtesy of
ESPN SportsTravel Photo Gallery)
Christmas in July? Yes, please! Now is the time of year when all you planners out there are thinking toward planning holiday parties for your company, organization or family. The heat index yesterday was 113 degrees in downtown Indianapolis, so to cool down a bit I'm thinking of winter also. But let's not rush it...
Our staff has a great offer for holiday parties at our downtown historic hotel Indianapolis. Don't wait to book your holiday party in our beautiful Benjamin Harrison Ballroom or on the spacious second floor mezzanine. This Indianapolis hotel package offers the following:
- 10% discount on per person food items
- Complimentary event space rental
- Bartender fee waived
Also, if you arrange to have your hotel accommodations blocked at our three star hotel downtown Indianapolis, you will also receive the following:
- Discount hotel Indianapolis rates when blocking a group room block
- One complimentary suite night for every 15 paid rooms nightly (based on a
vailability)
To arrange your 2011 holiday party at our newly renovated Indianapolis hotel, please call your Sales Manager or Celia Belden, Catering Sales Coordinator at 317-405-5711 or
cbelden@fhginc.com.
Happy Holidays from the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown!
2011 marks the inaugural race Indianapolis Women's Half Marathon & 5K. The start line is on the north side of Monument Circle, just one half block away from our downtown Indy hotel. The race then heads north on Meridian, west on Michigan to tour the IUPUI campus, east back to downtown and then south around Monument Circle. The course continues north on Pennsylvania Street, east on 38th past Indiana State Fairgrounds and south on Fall Creek Parkway. Connecting with Delaware Street, runners will head south with a quick jaunt through the historic Lockerbie neighborhood passing some great Indy landmarks and then finish up on Market Street at the Indianapolis City Market.
Phew! I'm tired just typing all of that!
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is very proud to be the official headquarters hotel of the race and to be a part of this great event!! The Indianapolis Women's Half Marathon & 5K will have many great events in our newly renovated hotel Indianapolis, too. We will host the packet pickup and onsite registrations, the pasta dinners and fashion shows, too. There will be exhibits from St. Francis Women's Health, Paul Mitchell Salons and more.
This race benefits the non-profit organization Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run, according to the blurb on the IWHM5K website, "promotes physical, emotional, social and intellectual development in 3rd through 8th grade girls. The girls complete the 12-week program with a stronger sense of identity, greater self-confidence, a healthier body image and a better knowledge of what it means to be a member of a team and a community."
The Indianapolis Women's Half Marathon & 5K has been so popular this year already! In early July our special discount hotel Indianapolis rate for the race sold out! Not to worry, you can make reservations at our sister hotel, the Hilton Indianapolis. They are equidistant from the start line, on the same street as our Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown and just a few blocks from the finish line! You can make your reservations at the Hilton online or call 317-972-0600.
If you can't run this year but still want to be a part of the event, please check out volunteer opportunities to assist the runners!
Welcome to "Indiana's Nicest Day!" The
Penrod Arts Fair is the nation's largest single day arts fair "features over three hundred artists, six stages of entertainment, more than 50 arts-related non-profit organizations, and an extensive children’s area." And guess what? All this culture is AFFORDABLE!
The Penrod Arts fair will take place on the exquisite grounds on the
Indianapolis Museum of Art this September 10th from 9am until 5pm. It is a celebration of Indianapolis area local artists and musicians. Proceeds go to provide grants for Indianapolis area arts and community organizations.
If you are interested in attending the Penrod Arts fair and seeing some architectural art, please come visit our historic hotel Indianapolis in downtown Indy. The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is located just a few miles south of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Our building was completed in 1915 and was Indy's first skyscraper. Our downtown Indy hotel has guest rooms available on September 10th if you'd like to
book your hotel accommodations Indianapolis and stay with us that night.
Have fun at the Penrod Arts Fair this year! Tickets are available online at the IMA, Marsh Supermarkets,
Hubbard & Cravens and Borders.
Rib America Festival is coming up again this Labor Day weekend. There are only 43 days left until the festivities begin at Military Park. You can always count on Rib Fest to be a smokin' hot, sweet and spicy good time. Live music, great BBQ, drinks and sunshine drain the energy out of us for four days...and it feels so good!
This year we are proud once again to offer hotel accommodations Indianapolis at a discounted price. For $99 per night, plus tax, stay at the official hotel of Rib America. We also have a great downtown Indianapolis hotel package which includes two admission tickets to the festival, 20 food & beverage tickets and breakfast for two in our downtown Indy hotel's restaurant, the Great American Grill. Act quick, though, because this Indianapolis hotel package is almost sold out!
Our Hilton Garden Inn is located just five blocks from Military Park - a quick walk or a $5 cab ride. The IndyGo Red Line Circulator also has $1.75 single rides picking up one block north of the hotel and dropping off at Military Park. Don't forget to check Sunday and holiday schedules as the Red Line may not be running.
Call our downtown Indy hotel today to reserve your Rib Fest hotel reservations Indianapolis downtown! We'd love to have you join us in the best BBQ affair of the year!
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is getting a NEW FITNESS CENTER! In preparation for the HGI new standard fitness centers, we have taken out our universal machine. The flooring is scheduled to be installed before next week, too! You know, that bouncy, cushy foam-like flooring you see in nice gyms?
In addition to the flooring, your favorite downtown Indy hotel is replacing our equipment. These treadmills see a lot of miles and it's time we bring in some new work horses to handle the next seven years. Hilton has a standard for Precor fitness equipment. So within the next few weeks or so our equipment will be upgraded to the Precor treadmills, elliptical and bike with the TVs on them for your viewing pleasure!
What are we getting?
Two treadmills
Two elliptical machines
One bike
Two sets of free weights
Two exercise benches
Exercise balls
So now our 2010 newly renovated hotel Indianapolis will have a newly renovated fitness center. It's all for you, our guests. Stay healthy, be happy! Oh, and we're definitely keeping the motivational quotes on the wall like, "Run, Forrest, Run!" -Jenny and "It's 5 o'clock somewhere." -Jimmy Buffet.
Happy 4th of July from your friendly staff at the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown!
The
Indiana State Fair is fast approaching! Taking place this year between August 5 and 21, the fair is located, as always, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds (ISF). Our Historic Hotel Indianapolis Downtown is located just five miles from the ISF.
This year the State Fair has some
new things added to the roster of things to do and see! Let's check some of them out:
- "Wilkommen to Germany" Exhibit
- New Midway rides and reduced prices
- Fido 500 - Weiner/Mini-Dog races
- Pioneer Village 50th Anniversary
- Indiana 4-H Foundation 50th Anniversary
- Mini-Indy Races (Quarter Midgets)
Admission to the Indiana State Fair is $8 but discounted $7 tickets are available at Walmart, CVS, Indiana Farm Bureau, Marten House Hotel and of course the ISF Box Office.
It's not just an event to see some livestock; some
great concerts will take place just north of our downtown Indy hotel. This year Sugarland, Janet Jackson, Big Time Rush, Train, Maroon 5, Lady Antebellum and more will be there!
Go check out this year's Indiana State Fair! If you need
Hotel Accommodations in Indianapolis, please think of us! We have a pool for the kids, a bar for the adults, free Wi-Fi for everyone and some of the cheapest parking for a Downtown Indy Hotel.
The
Indianapolis International Film Festival is coming up next month! It begins July 14 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, located about four miles north of our downtown Indy hotel. This is the eighth year of the Indy Film Fest and it's become one of the Midwest’s fastest-growing and most-watched film festivals..."
Films will be exhibited from filmmakers around the country and around the world. I'm particularly excited to see "Clerks"! Remember my blog about the list of things I want to do in Indy this summer? Well, an outdoor movie at the
Indianapolis Museum of Art is one of them and luckily I can combine "Clerks" outdoor movie at the IMA with the Indy Film Fest!
You can even get a sneak preview of the festival's films and events on Thursday, June 16. From 6-9pm at
Sun King Brewery, the Festival will show some trailers. Enjoy a pint of Sun King's tasty craft beer, food provided by Scratch Food Truck, music and more.
Our Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown has partnered with the Festival to help sponsor this year's events. We have offered a very special rate from July 14-24 of $99 for any person wanting to stay the night. You can make your Indianapolis hotel reservation by booking online at
http://bit.ly/IndyFilmFest2011. Of course you can ALWAYS call our friendly, funny and helpful hotel staff to book your Indianapolis hotel room at 317.955.9700.
We look forward to having you stay with us!! Book your hotel deal Indianapolis today!
Over the weekend, Kirk Stelsel and wife Laura stayed at our Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown. They planned a "staycation" in downtown Indy for Kirk to blog about on Doing Indy's blog. The happy couple spent Saturday night with us, had dinner at Mesh on Mass Ave and then went to an Indianapolis Indians game at Victory Field.
Kirk and Laura were married on April 24, 2010. We were one of their selected Indianapolis wedding hotels for their guests to stay while in town for their nuptials. It was good to have them back here with us just over a month after they celebrated their one year anniversary.
Kirk is posting three installments on the Doing Indy blog. The first is about our downtown Indy hotel and their experience here. The second will be about dinner at Mesh while the third is reserved for the Indians game. In the first blog, already posted, Kirk talks about how their three star hotel downtown Indianapolis is within walking distance or a short cab ride to many things downtown, one of my favorite features of our HGI.
If you want to read Kirk's blog and hear it from a real guest, other than my sales blog, please check it out and comment on it!
Finally, CONGRATULATIONS to Kirk and Laura on their one year anniversary!
Summer is almost here! I know the staff of the our downtown Indy hotel loves this season. Being so close to Monument Circle and one of the hotels near Conseco Fieldhouse and the Murat, we have quick access to so many events going on!
I have recently made a list of some things I'd like to do with my guy this summer. Some I've experienced, some I have not. Let me list some off for you and we'll get some ideas flowing!
- Attend a film at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Outdoor, summer evening films. The Sandlot, Zoolander, Mommie Dearest and more!
- Revisit the Indianapolis Zoo
- They've added some animals since my last visit.
- Bicycle the Monon/Central Canal
- I have a cruiser now so little hills kill me. But it looks so nice to chill out and maybe stop at Huddle Frozen Yogurt on 86th Street for a cool treat!
- Go to a concert at The Lawn
- I already plan on seeing Umphrey's McGee, The Black Keys and The Avett Brothers there. If you've read some of my posts, music = life.
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's Marsh(R) Symphony on the Prairie
- Another I miss year after year. I'm determined to visit Conner Prairie this year for some symphonic renditions of popular music.
- Rib America Festival
- This is one of the best weekends downtown. Four days of music, sun, and of course some of the best bbq in the country! you might catch me there every day. See my upcoming blog about this event and check out our Indianapolis hotel package for an amazing deal!!
- Visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
- It's race weekend but I'll be out of town for a four-day music festival in Illinois. So...maybe I'll visit for Brickyard 400 or Red Bull Indianapolis GP is my only chance of the year. We are one of the downtown hotels near Indianapolis Speedway...so it's not too far from work!
- Rock & Roll BBQ
- A new event to Indy at Victory Field. Country music and rock & roll with more bbq! I think this is 4th of July's answer to Labor Day's Rib Fest. Music and food? I'm IN! What about you? We still have the availability for you to make your Indianapolis hotel reservations and attend this first year event!
Well, those are some of the things I want to do in Indy this year. Other things I'd like to do are out of city/state: That four-day music festival this weekend, Phish in Ohio next weekend, camping in Hoosier National Forest, road trip to Florida to see my parents....it'll be a good summer.
What do you like to do in and around Indy in the summer? Share some of your faves!
If you are finding the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown blog via search engine, you should continue on to our new website. We are very excited to have our new site up and running! We are still tweaking little things here and there to make the user experience easier, more interactive and eye-catching.
Soon, we will be having a photo shoot to enhance our new website and better display our three star hotel downtown Indianapolis. We will also be including area shots of downtown Indianapolis in our photos so you, our guest, will be able to visualize what is in the area of our downtown Indy hotel.
We hope you like the new Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown's website as much as we do! Thank you eMax for making us look good!
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