MI Detroit Westin Detroit Metro Airport DTW

[Sutter]

Through Hotwire, cost $77 plus taxes and fee, for total of $95. 4-star hotel. Amenities: smoke-free; pool; high-speed Internet (about $9); shuttle (really the airport's shuttle, to the North Terminal); fitness center, business center. Lowest rate directly through the hotel was about $129 plus tax, though there are discounts available (e.g., AARP).

Exceptionally nice, modern hotel, attached to the McNamara Terminal, used by Delta, KLM and others. There is an airport shuttle to the North Terminal, used by American, Southwest, etc. Shuttles to rental car facilities are on the lower level of the parking structure across the street. Parking, valet only, costs about $24 (cars are parked in the aforementioned parking structure). Rooms are nice. There are both interior rooms, with views of the enclosed multi-story atrium and lobby area, and outside rooms, with views of the termnal and runways. We stayed one night in each (several days apart). I did hear some minor plane noise in the morning from the outside room (my wife did not), and preferred the inside room.

When we checked in the first time and asked for a quiet room, the recetionist said she'd put us in an inside room on the concierge floor. Rooms on that floor are actually the same as any others, but on weekdays there is a breakfast in an events room (we were there on a weekend so no freebie). No sense we were given a lesser room due to the Hotwire rate. When we returned a week later, having booked directly through the hotel, the hotel was a lot more full and we ended up with an outside room.

The first night there the restaurant was closed so we had dinner in the bar area. The second time we ate in the main restaurant. Not cheap, but pretty good. On both occasions we ate breakfast elsewhere due to the high cost in the restaurant. We did not have time to make use of the fitness center small pool.