I met with Jillian's a couple weeks ago and was treated to lunch. Do you know Jillian's? It's that restaurant/bar/club/bowling alley/billiards room/arcade entertainment venue in downtown Indianapolis just a few blocks from the Hilton Garden Inn. The food was delicious! I had a chicken pasta dish and sweet tea. Just a heads up, if you haven't eaten there, you should really take the time to check it out. Their menu is varied and my contact recommends just about everything!
During my meeting, we discussed an idea to set up a new Indianapolis hotel package for all you guests out there. It will partner our downtown Indy hotel with entertainment and gift certificate from Jillian's to keep you occupied while there. Another hotel deal I'm working on is with the Indiana Repertory Theatre, or IRT. Stay and see a play, experience the Indy arts scene. Keep your eyes peeled for a couple new packages coming this August!
Don't forget about our other packages we're always selling. Our hotel packages are a great way to find a discount hotel room in Indianapolis paired with great goodies from local businesses or from our hotel.
Indianapolis Zoo Package
Circle Centre Shopping Package
Wine Lovers Package and
Romance Package
Just go to our website and check availability for your preferred staycation date and see which one fits you best!
However, just this month, the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown received a 4 Green Keys designation by Green Key Global. We are the first hotel in Downtown Indianapolis awarded with this certification and the second in the city of Indianapolis. This is obviously something we are very proud of, but doesn’t represent the end of our continuing practice of adopting and developing new opportunities to enhance our sustainable operation.
Green Key Global is a international organization (US and Canada) that ranks hotels on 9 areas of sustainability (energy conservation, water conservation, solid waste management, hazardous waste management, indoor air quality, community outreach, building infrastructure, land use, and environmental management). This encompasses all facets of our business from our hotel meetings to our hotel sleeping rooms.
A Four Green Keys designation is described by Green Key Global in this way: “A hotel that has shown national industry leadership and commitment to protecting the environment through wide ranging policies and practices. Mature programs that involve management, employees, guests, and the public have shown substantial and measurable results.
If travelling green is important to you, and you need hotel accommodations Indianapolis, then we invite you to stay with us or check out our environmental statement above.
As our Indianapolis downtown hotel continues to grow and improve, we have recently started serving Starbucks® Coffee in our hotel! Starbucks® started out as a single coffee shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Now the company is an internationally recognized brand known for its quality coffees.
Starbucks® is now being served in our Great American Grill, located on the first floor of our newly renovated hotel.
As a smaller conference hotel in downtown Indianapolis, we thought it would be a great idea to offer Starbucks® Coffee as a hot beverage option for all banquets. Planners who are searching for an Indianapolis meeting hotel, or even couples searching for a hotel wedding brunch can now offer their guests the familiar flavor of premium Starbucks® coffee! We plan to offer Tazo Teas and different blends in the future.
Stay tuned! Or, better yet...come in for breakfast, lunch or dinner and have a cup today!
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown would like to announce and introduce ourselves as a new member and Preferred Hotel partner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We are very excited about our new partnership! Being one of the Indianapolis downtown hotels near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it seems natural we partner with the most famous sports venue in the world right here in Indianapolis.
I and the staff at the Hilton Garden Inn are committed to working hard to create competitive packages for our partners, like you, that include preferred partner benefits whether you are here for the races or other meetings and events in town. What are you waiting for? Let the Hilton Garden Inn put you in the driver’s seat for the 94th running of the Indy 500, scheduled for May 30 at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway! Don't forget about the Brickyard 400® and the Red Bull Indianapolis GP®!
**This is your opportunity to experience our HGI hospitality and the rush of The Greatest Spectacle in Racing® at a great Indianapolis hotel package price!
-=For package pricing and availability on our great Indianapolis hotel deal, please contact Camille Lauer at 317-405-5709 or clauer@fhginc.com.
Indianapolis is fast becoming a major destination for individuals and families looking for an enjoyable and affordable getaway! The beautiful, historic Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown hotel is an ideal hotel to select when seeking exemplary discount hotel accommodations for your next Indianapolis visit In addition to our out of town guests, HGI is becoming ever popular with local residents looking for the perfect, yet inexpensive “staycation”! Many of our guests like our staff and amenities so much, they visit us again and again. This allows us to develop an ongoing rapport with these visitors, and most importantly it allows us to individualize our services even more, to better meet the needs of these guests.
When considering y our next getaway, be sure to call the Hilton Garden Inn – Downtown Indianapolis (317-955-9700) and inquire about your next great hotel deal located in the heart of the city!
***While in Indianapolis, you might want to consider visiting one or more of the following attractions:
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
The State Soldiers and Sailors Monument and Civil War Museum
Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Museum (Home of the Indianapolis 500)
Lucas Oil Stadium (Home of the Indianapolis Colts)
Calling all stylists! Are you ready for the fashion experience of a lifetime? The Indianapolis Children’s Museum presents Barbie: The Fashion Experience, where you can not only be Barbie’s stylist, or makeup artist, but you can also walk the runway as she would! Barbie will be on the runway in Indianapolis until February 2011. The Children’s Museum is less than five minutes away straight up Meridian Street. Also, don’t forget to bring along your friends to meet Barbie!
Our General Manager, Mike Campbell, took his daughters to see Barbie and his son got to see Bob the Builder. As you can see in the picture, the girls look like they're having a great time in front of the wall of Barbies! While you are visiting, make a weekend of it and stay with us in our newly renovated hotel in downtown Indianapolis. We offer different family-friendly Indianapolis hotel packages that you can reserve to see our magnificent Indianapolis Zoo, or go shopping in the Circle Centre Mall, which has plenty of stores, a movie theater and great restaurants and is only a block and a half away.
Happy New Year and welcome to 2010! There's going to be a lot happening this year! The Colts have home field advantage for the playoffs and face off against the Baltimore Ravens this Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium! Being one of the hotels near Lucas Oil Stadium, our lobby is decked out with Fatheads, flags, bobble heads and our staff will surely be in Colts attire starting tomorrow!
We are officially one of Indianapolis' newly renovated hotels! Only a few final touches remain before we're 100% complete. Our restaurant, the Great American Grill, has been completely redone and has a very chic feel to it. The guestroom beds, carpet and furniture have been replaced. Lobby furniture is brand new and, as and Indianapolis meeting hotel, we have updated our meeting space as well! Check our pictures out on our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter too!
The Hilbert Circle Theatre will be host to some great shows this season. I'm particularly interested in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's presentation of The Music of Pink Floyd! Of course being a concert fanatic, I'm very excited to see what other venues will present this year. We're the closest hotel to Murat Centre, so why not stay with us when you come to your next show? Don't forget about the Pacers and those performances at Conseco Fieldhouse to which we're one of the the closest hotels.
Big things will be happening in 2010! Oh...ladies and gentlemen, Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching! So when you get engaged, be sure to call our wedding hotel when you're looking for a place to host your rehearsal dinner, small ceremony or reception or simply need a discounted hotel room block for your group's travel!
Happy New Year from the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown!
One of the key parts of our renovation and refresh is new carpeting. We have about 40% of our guestrooms completed with thankfully little to no disruption to our guests. Because of the high rise nature of the building we have a small number of rooms on any given floor so we've been able to isolate the work from areas our guests are in. The nightmare of any guest, and therefore any General Manager, is construction work being done right next door to someone trying to sleep, relax or work. We've worked hard to make sure that doesn't happen. The carpet, gives the room a warmer feel as you can see below.
The $1.2 million investment in carpeting, bedding, and new furnishing will allow us to be the most newly renovated hotel in Indianapolis' downtown. As part of the Hilton family of hotels it is important to keep our product fresh and vibrant and comfortable for our frequent business travelers as well as for those Indianapolis Colts fans that are arriving to support the team this weekend versus the rival New England Patriots, you might want to stay at this newly renovated hotel near Lucas Oil Stadium.
Our guestrooms will be very near 100% completion by Thanksgiving. If you are Downtown for the Tree Lighting ceremony on Monument Circle, or coming into town for the MLB Winter Meetings at the Indianapolis Convention Center take a look at the newest rooms in an Indianapolis Downtown Hotel.
As I've mentioned before, part of our ongoing strategy during this renovation has been to look for ways to green the operation. In accordance with our commitment to be a green hotel, the old carpet is being recycled. Indianapolis is fortunate that we have a regional carpet recycling center located on the Northwest side of town. We are working with Kruse Carpet Recycling to ensure that the enormous amount of carpeting doesn't end up in a landfill. To see more about the process take a look at this video of the Kruse Carpet recycling process.
The cost of recycling this carpet approximates the amount we would have spent on a roll off dumpster and has kept this material from accumulating near the building and detracting from our exterior appearance. It keeps this from entering the waste stream so it's a win win for us.
Did you know Hilton Garden Inns are Best Available Rate guaranteed hotels? What does this mean? Well, it means that when you, as our potential or returning guest, are searching for Indianapolis hotel accommodations or and Indianapolis hotel deal, you will find our rates are the same on all third party booking sites, like Expedia and Orbitz, as they are on our HGI site.How does this benefit you? First, you know the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown doesn't jack up our prices to sell at a higher rate on any website. Second, you know that king room you reserve on our website will be a king room when you arrive. Some third party booking sites only guarantee you a room, not a specific room type - like airlines guarantee you a fare, but not a specific seat. If this is the case on our site, you can always call the hotel to see what "Room Type Selected At Check-In" really means and if your preferred room type is, in fact, available. Finally, we can only offer our great packages on our HGI.com site. You'll find great Indianapolis hotel packages and our best available rates online...guaranteed.
Finally, whether you are searching for Indianapolis wedding hotels or a meeting hotel, hotels near Conseco Fieldhouse for your team or something downtown but still near the Indianapolis Airport for your group's easy arrival and departure, you can find Indianapolis group travel accommodations through our sales department. We would be happy to check availability for your friends, family, clients, conference or team. Call one of us if you need anything!
Christian Celis-Schemidt, Director of Sales, (317) 405-5708,
Camille Lauer, Corporate Sales Manager, (317) 405-5709,
Lindsay Gill, Leisure & Online Sales Manager, (317) 405-5710 and
Marcy Schwegman, Banquet & Meeting Manager (317) 405-5711.
Let me introduce Hilton eTools! Group Value Dates let you search for our hotel and find out what hotel deals we're offering for holding your event or setting up a room block here. From here you can submit a request for a proposal and get an email back shortly. Guest List Manager allows you to keep track of those guests in your room block, see if there are rooms still left in the block and edit/make/cancel hotel reservations.You can plan your meeting, all online, from the comfort of your own home/desk/office with Hilton's event resources. My personal favorite, the Personalized Group Web Page, allows guests to reserve their rooms inside the block without inputting a group code or making any long distance phone calls. The best part about it? You, as the group administrator, can build the page and add in group-specific information. For example, an itinerary of a wedding weekend, schedule for a meeting or family reunion activities. You can also add up to two pictures to really personalize it and make it yours.
All Hilton Family hotels have these tools. So the next time you're using that GPS on your PDA to search for "Indianapolis Wedding Hotels" or "Indianapolis Meeting Hotels", why not check out the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown to see how we can take some planning stress from you with these great eTools!
As a representative of a Downtown Indy Hotel I've recently been able to sit in on a few meetings that have highlighted some of the important steps that Indianapolis is doing to become a greener and more environmentally friendly city. Currently the Indiana Cultural Trail construction is already well underway and will pass within one block of our hotel sometime next year. Our central location on this trail will connect the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in all four directions via the trail to all the major cultural districts including the Fountain Square, Wholesale District, Mass Avenue and the Murat Centre, the Canal and White River State Park, and of course Monument Circle. If you know someone looking for a conference hotel in Indianapolis, another corridor of this trail will branch off to the Indianapolis Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium making this a very pleasant walk from the hotel for conventioneers, Colts Fans, or others on Indianapolis group travel.
Once completed, the Indy Cultural Trail will connect with the existing Monon Trail which will give guests staying at the hotel easy access to Broad Ripple Village as well. Check out the Cultural Trail's site if you get a chance. The storm water planters and natural vegetation will really add to the feel of Downtown Indy and enhance the experience for both cyclists and pedestrians. Very cool stuff.
To check out our own environmental projects check out our own environmental statement at the top of the screen.
We're near the Indianapolis Speedway and this is the perfect time to be one of many downtown Indy hotels close to that venue. Saving Abel is playing there this weekend, practice is running and the Brickyard 400 is Sunday! I'll be there, will you? There are lots of upcoming events this summer including some major conventions. GenCon, the Best Four Days in Gaming, will be held downtown in August and we are near the Indianapolis Convention Center - only a five block walk!
Since my favorite topic is live music, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra plays at Conner Prairie every year for Symphony on the Prairie. I've not been myself, but I hear it's great. If you'd like to stay in an Indianapolis area hotel after the Prairie, get online and check out our special rates for this event! Just input Group Code SOTP09.
There's only a couple months of summer left! Tell us how you'll make the most of it!
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! We will soon be setting up a Facebook and Twitter rate, too...stay tuned for more...
The colors will be a brighter pallet than what is reflected here and will feature functional space that will allow visitors to utilize laptops and other electronic devices that can take advantage of our wireless internet access.In keeping with our environmental commitments to be a more green hotel Indianapolis, all lobby furnishing that are being replaced will be either reused or recycled elsewhere.
The hotel rooms, meeting rooms, and restaurant are also being renovated and once completed we will be the most newly renovated hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Target date is the end of the year.
We are excited to be one of the Downtown Indianapolis Hotels that is participating with the guest of Do It Best. Being one of the hotels near Indianapolis Convention Center guest are within short walking distance for the convention.
We are also one of the hotels near the Indianapolis Speedway. Our hotel sits directly on the parade route for the Saturday festivities. We are also hosting a client event during the parade, come rain or shine, you can enjoy the view from one of our fabulous meeting rooms that overlook Pennsylvania Street.
Looking for the Face2 face Tour for Elton John and Billy Joel? We are one of the hotels near Conseco Fieldhouse. Visit our website and reserve one of our wonderful Indianapolis Hotel Packages.
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is an historic hotel in downtown Indianapolis renovated from the American Fletcher National Bank building which was built in 1915. The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown is a three star hotel located on the corner of Market and Pennsylvania Street. Our downtown Indianapolis hotel is within walking distance to Conseco Fieldhouse, Lucas Oil Stadium and the Murat Centre.
Our bloggers and what they will be discussing:
Michael Campbell - General Manager
Mike will be blogging about our sustainability efforts. Mike has been instrumental in implementing eco-friendly practices to make the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown a green hotel in Indianapolis.
Teresa Tracy - Assistant General Manager
Teresa will blog about what's going on in downtown Indianapolis and how it relates to the hotel. There are lots of events throughout the year so she will have much to write about.
Megan Mills - Guest Service Manager
Megan will be discussing what's going on at the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown. Whether we are welcoming convention attendees, reviewing a recent client function or recognizing a member of our staff, Megan will write about it.
Lindsay Gill - Leisure & Online Sales Manager
I will be discussing the special offers and hotel deals, hotel packages, weddings, meetings and banquets at the Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown.
The Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Downtown staff looks forward to telling you more about our hotel, our team and what's going on in Indy!
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