Hilton Garden Inn Bloomington

We had a great stay here the room was clean and perfect for our visit. The staff was friendly and helpful. I would highly recommend not going to coaches the bar that is on the first floor the management is a joke.

We hold our annual management summit here each year and have for the past couple of years! The staff is welcoming and attentive, the rooms are comfortable and clean and the food is always great! They go above and beyond to make sure each of us are checked in smoothly and efficiently which is certainly no easy task with more than 100 from our company alone plus other guests all at once. They are phenomenal to deal with! Excellent place to stay!

Easy checkin. Front desk was great. Room was clean. Nice amenities. Great location. Walking distance to everything. Plenty of parking in the garage behind the hotel. When you check in, just pull up in front of main entrance and run in. They will give you a prepaid swipe card for the parking garage. The only reason the hotel does not get 5 stars is, everytime the AC clicks on or off in the room, the thermostat makes this snapping sound and woke me up every time. Don’t know if all the rooms are like this or only room 213.

Just want to provide a Unilocal shout-​out to the Manager, Amanda, for going above and beyond to address an issue for me. Super professional, helpful and pleasant to work with. Amanda represents the HGI Bloomington brand like a rock star!
I’m a frequent guest at this property and Amanda’s customer service just bolsters my loyalty to this property. Well done and thanks.

Staff are really friendly and knowledgeable of the hotel and area. The rooms are nice and clean. But the piped in music, from 1930’s 40’s, was creepy, I felt like I was in a Steven King movie. The Shining came to mind. Seriously, the music needs to go

This hotel is very nice. I am staying here for the second time on business. Best part are the people who run it. I got in later than expected last night and missed service at the bar/​restaurant by 15 minutes (not a close call, by any means) and a man, who I think was management stopped me as I was walking out to the elevators and gave me to bottles of Bud on the house. Very kind and very welcome after an interesting day of travel.
Thanks, kind stranger!

Clean and really nice Hotel. The Staff was really friendly and helpfull. I would say one of the friendliest employees i experienced.

Probably would have been a great review, except for all the mistakes that were made. Putting us in the wrong room, that’s cool, got a voucher for a free entrée at the hotel restaurant, but the steak was way overcooked… and booooooo, no baked potatoes. Still not that bad, until I got home and saw they had charged my credit card, instead of the one that was used to book the room (they only took my card initially because they had put us in the wrong room, one that wasn’t previously booked). This really is why I choose not to deal with kids… because a smile, a sorry and flip of the hair just doesn’t cut it. Please let me deal with an adult. C’mon Hilton, get your sh*t together!

Excellent location, and the rooms are perfectly up to date. Walking distance to just about everything, and the parking is right behind the hotel.

Highly recommend this for visiting Indiana University. I had a great experience here. The room were clean and cozy. Service was awesome. It’s located in a very nice area, just about the right amount of walk to IU-​B while getting a nice tour of everything else that is there in the Bloomington, IN area.

Nice little hotel in Bloomington Indiana for those that are visiting their kids at nearby Indiana University. In fact, you can just about walk to campus if you are a good walker and the weather is co-operating…and if not this hotel is still right in the middle of downtown Bloomington, so all the nice restaurants and city activities are right outside your door.
Hotel wise it was a typical Hilton Garden and I mean that in a good way… very nice rooms… clean and stocked. It is attached to a multi-​level parking garage so you have a nice convenient place to tuck your auto while in town. Classy lobby area where you can sit by a fireplace while you wait for someone or call a cab. The lobby is also a nice area to lounge in in the morning with the free AM coffee service… bring a book and sit in one of the couches. Right off the lobby is a Coaches Corner restaurant. Its a sports bar but is a nice addition to the hotel property for when you get hungry.
Nice pool and fitness area. Fitness room has a few free weights instead of just all treadmills and cross-​trainers. When you are in Bloomington visiting at Indiana University this is a good place to stay. Fills up pretty fast though on the big campus weekends — Freshman Weekend, Parents Weekend, football games, etc. Try it.

This is always a nice welcome from the other Bloomington hotels. I have stayed at nearly all if the chain hotels in Bloomington, and this is the nicest one.
It still looks great, and it’s not exactly brand new. It has a solid restaurant/​bar in the lobby, in Coaches. Nice selection. Of beers on tap, and decent bar food.
The hotel fitness center and indoor pool/​jacuzzi are also nice.
The location can’t be beat in terms of being able to walk to so many nice restaurants and bars. In fact, they continue to add more hotels and restaurants on this block ever time I visit.
Service is also very good every time I visit. I just called at 11:30 PM to say my tv remote batteries had died, and while there was only one employee here this late, she still ran one up within 5 minutes.
Will definitely be back again soon!

This is the best place to stay in Bloomington. It’s perfectly located on the square, but the parking deck is super convenient and cheap so you can walk OR drive to wherever you need to go. The décor is fantastic. The staff is thoughtful and friendly. The rooms are lovely and well appointed. The attached restaurant/​bar is pretty great; the cooked-​to-​order breakfast buffet is an outstanding value. We thoroughly enjoyed our experience and look forward to staying there again when we’re in B-​Town.

Two amazing things about this hotel. The first is the very firm mattress in the room and the second relates to the existence of an actual bathroom fan which I find particularly amazing since they’re a little a snowman in July-​you never see one! The reason for the former may be the result of ongoing renovations while the later because we were on the top floor. Who knows but it’s there.
Otherwise this is just another hotel room in a long series of them. It’s small but clean and I’m doing nothing more than really sleeping in it so I’ve got no right to complain. I might add that for aesthetic purposes, the carpeting is rather ugly so you need to question the interior designer and his or her taste. Secondly put in high mattresses, I really don’t want to see the dust behind the headboards.
So this is a decent place to stay but nothing that jumps out at you.

I love Hilton hotels.
Staying for a week for Indiana University’s Kelley Direct Connection week for my husband.
We checked in and got our cold bottles of water, as usual. Great service, as usual. We are HHonors members and I think the reason we are Gold members is because the service is always amazing and it’s to e expected. Caroline was so helpful every time I bugged her. Any time I needed anything, I always called and said I would come down to get it and they would say «we will Come to you» as usual. Microwave, hair dryer, fresh towels and linens, fridge, iron and ironing board as the be expected. The cleaning staff were super sweet and would wait for me to gather my things before they entered my room. 24 hour laundry facility, pool & spa, and fitness room. Beautiful courtyard (one of the best i have seen) with a smoking section (I know I know!) as the hotel is 100% smoke free. I wish when we checked in they would have warned us that they were hosting sport tournaments for youth baseball, golf, tennis, and soft ball because there were kids EVERYWHERE the first 2 nights. And of course as children do, they were being annoying and completely uncaring of others (riding elevators, stopping at every floor, running around with no supervision or shoes!) and I wish the hotel staff would have put them in their place or at least talked to the parents. But they all left Sunday and after that its been peaceful. I’m sure we are the only ones on the 6^th floor which is nice because I can turn my music up and study. Water is super hot which I love for a relaxing bath. Shower heads are adjustable spraying. The beds are my favorite; so much that after my first few stays, we purchased a bed set from the Hilton website so it was like being at home. The rooms are larger and very roomy. The air was in perfect working condition (I like it cold and set it at 60 when I am not paying the electric bill). There was no outside noise leaking through. The parking garage is connect through the court yard and is regularly $ 5/​night unless you ask for a parking pass which they have no problem doing. Breakfast for us, is free because of our membership level but it is normally $ 10.95 which includes both buffet and made to order. I get breakfast every morning to go and go out to the courtyard. Worth every penny if I had to pay. Hotel is in the perfect place; walking distance to IU (less than 1 mile) and many wonderful restaurants and shopping.
There’s a reason we are gold, almost platinum members. It’s the only hotel I will stay at. Worth every penny.

Very comfortable hotel stay — nice room with super comfy bedding. The staff was really helpful and nice. They gave us a lot of extra coffee and smiled when we walked by. The hot tub and pool were relaxing and clean. The location is not far from IU’s campus and near restaurants. It has a very downtown feel.

I recently stayed in a Hilton Hotel in Bloomington, Indiana. It was the perfect location — right near Indiana University Campus and in the downtown area of Bloomington. Everything was clean and the breakfast was delicious. My co-​worker enjoyed the Omelette Special — spinach & goat cheese. The workout room had a good number of treadmills and ellipticals, too! The décor in my room was a bit dated, but everything was in working order, and the desk in my room was very spacious. The internet was not slow like in some hotels.

I had very good experience at the Hilton Grand Garden; aside from the late night cheering from game 6 of the world series that woke me up at 3 am, but I really can’t blame the hotel for a game that went until 3 am. However, like another reviewer mentioned, if you wake up to any noise then don’t get a room on the main street.
The room itself was clean and appropriately furnished. I liked that it had a fridge and microwave in addition to the staple coffee pot. The bathroom was a good size to move around in and the shower was hot with an excellent showerhead with variable settings. The amenities were Neutrogena (good quality), and the towels were clean and soft. The bed had a soft-​firm adjustable control that worked well and was a nice surprise. They provided 4 very comfortable pillows. The temperature of the room was easy to adjust and worked like thermostats should. They had an outlet in the lamp next to the bed (convenient since I use my phone as my alarm). The room itself was dark, although I had to put a book in front of the green lights for the internet on the desk.
Free complimentary wireless in room. Definitely required for a good hotel in my book.
The staff was friendly and helpful. We had a large group and they were very accommodating with holding our luggage after we checked out. The location is extremely convenient. I didn’t have a car so I can’t make a comment on the parking situation. However getting a cab was easy, and many places are within walking distance. The Coaches Bar and Grill downstairs of the hotel was also convenient. If I end up in Bloomington again I will definitely consider staying again.

Having stayed in all the Marriotts, Hiltons, and Intercontinental joints in town, HGI wins hands down.
Pros
— Location: It’s right off the square and on one of the main drags in B-​town. That said, if you’re a light sleep, request a room on the parking garage and not the street side.
— Staff: Friendly, kind, and not too obtrusive. Some of the other folks (and this may be an Indiana thing) are too generous with the welcomes and greetings. Sometimes you just want to get your key and get to your room and not make new friends.
— Rooms: Clean, newish, and without issue in my many weeks here.
I haven’t eaten in the restaurant but I tend to avoid hotel food as a rule. I don’t pay for parking (usually $ 5 per night in garage) as there are usually free spaces until 7am all around the block.
Don’t get me wrong — it’s not 5-​star in most decent sized towns in the world, but for B-​town, it’s as close as you’re going to get.

Stayed and parked at this hotel for a wedding down in Orleans, IN. The wedding party and all of my college friends ended up staying here in this hotel, and were greeted by the other half of the hotel that seemed to be in the state for another wedding out of the Bloomington city area.
Checked in and met a great guy who was currently a student at IU, since I graduated ISU in Terre Haute, we talked a bit waiting for my brother to come inside from the car. He offered us his knowledge on local bars and restaurants; which we appreciated.
The hotel is only a 5 – 8 minute walk to the border of the campus and the walk there is beautiful. Great location, quiet rooms, quiet environment around the building itself, and discounted parking for staying in the room.