La Quinta Inn & Suites Indianapolis Downtown

Located about a mile off I-​65 and a few miles from the heart of downtown Indy, this La Quinta is clean and has small rooms. What made my stay a pleasant one was the super friendly front desk staff.
I love how accommodating the front desk guys are. When I first checked in, I was greeted with «Hello and Merry Christmas!» He was genuinely interested in my stay and how my travel was going. Check-​in was easy and quick, and the staff was very polite when I had called earlier that day.
A different front desk I greeted me in the morning the next day. He complimented me on how cute my dog was, and gave me a bag of fancy dog biscuits from the local dog bakery! I was checking out kind of late, and they were closing up breakfast, but he went and got me an oatmeal pack and a spoon for the road. FIVE STAR SERVICE!
I slept comfortably knowing the room was clean– sheets were a bit worn but we’re starch white, and the towels were also super white smelling of detergent and bleach! I am a German neat freak, and after doing my walk-​in ritual going thru the whole room, the only thing I found was an eyelash in the bathtub!
I don’t have many negative things to say about this place other than the room would not be big enough to stay multiple nights, and like other reviewers mentioned, the elevator is the size of a small closet lol.
Reasonably priced and comfortable, I would def recommend this La Quinta for a solid mid-​grade hotel.

Old outdated elevator. Close to Bankers Life Fieldhouse but not the greatest stay. Cold showers.

The hotel is within walking distance to Indy however boarders a shady part of town. The hotel is very old, the front dest was extremely nice. Don’t waste your time on the breakfast. Powder eggs with either cold cheese or plastic cheese, nothing to drink except coffee or hot tea. No milk, juice dispenser «out of order» no water. I would pay the extra money to closer to downtown.

The staff was helpful we asked to change the room three times due to the rooms’ hygienic issues and also oldness. The hotel was very old and you can understand that by the time you step into an elevator that doesn’t even show which floor you’re at. However the staff was very helpful. That must have been the only good thing about this hotel. The bathrooms were very old and some of them had rust. You should stay in this hotel if you really need a cheap hotel and if you won’t be in town for a long time.

Stopped in this place on the trip from coast to coast.
Location is ⁵⁄₅ perfect about one block from Indy downtown.
Service is ⁵⁄₅. Receptionist, Michael, was a very hospitable guy.
Facility: very reasonable.
Breakfast: ⁴⁄₅.
Breakfast lounge: ⁵⁄₅. Nice, tidy, quiet and comfortable to have a chat.
Price: total with tax: $ 127 per night for single room double beds

This hotel has wonderful service! I left a necklace on the floor, left town and realized what I had done and the front desk worker (Terrance) went in my room after the maid cleaned and found my necklace for me! The hotel has wonderfully pleasant workers every time I’ve stayed here and you really are getting good quality for the amount paid. Everything’s clean, breakfast is nice and the location is very close to downtown! Perfect choice!

The room was clean (although trash cans did not have trash bags in them) and the location was conveniently located downtown. That’s about all I can say good about this place.
The hotel front desk staff was uninformed about close by businesses. We asked if he knew where the closest gas station was. His response: «yes.» Pause… Me: «well, are you going to tell me?» Him:” you go out of the hotel right here (hey, I’m on the phone, not standing in front of you. What does «right here» mean?”). I asked him for an address or intersection or name of gas station and he couldn’t tell me.
Not only that, the front desk accosted my bf in the morning as he went to the lobby bathroom, on his way to the breakfast area by banging on the door as he was inside the bathroom. She wanted to know if he was a guest. Could she not have waited until he came out? That was rude and uncalled for! Never going back!!!

Don’t stay here. Reasonably priced but you get what you pay for. It’s a very old hotel that has been rehabbed. Staff and General Manager are less than friendly. We had our rate raised a few days before our stay even though we booked on online weeks prior. Hotel had low-​lifes and drunks that partied all night and urinated in the halls. The General Manager did nothing to address our complaints. Never will stay again. Only positives of stay were free parking and breakfast but not worth it anyway.

BEWARE!!! What a «Thanksgiving» rip off!!! Once we received our credit card statement there was a $ 250 charge for «cleaning vomit». According to the manager, it was «all over» but they have no pictures, nothing to prove it. It’s the first time in my life we had an experience like this (and we have traveled a lot!). We stayed a week there… do you think that is reasonable to think that the morning we left we «vomited all over»?. The staff is as mean as the crumbling structure of this hotel.
Rooms are in the small side. The building has been updated to keep the business running but the structure of the hotel is old. Some of the updates are falling and showing these problems. Our room had a funny smell. The toilet leaked and did not stop running. The breakfast area was quite small for the crowd. I definitively don’t recommend this hotel to anybody.

Pros:
1. Great rate
2. Convenient location
3. Clean room, towels, sheets
4. Comfortable bed
5. In room microwave oven and refrigerator
6. Parking was adequate but a little bit goofy
Cons:
1. Came across a bunch of shady characters, but it is located in the Downtown area.
2. Besides the room, the rest of the hotel was pretty old.
Overall: It was adequate for my trip to run the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon. I booked late and this was a pretty great find, but if I had decided earlier, I would’ve booked somewhere a little bit better and nearer the center of Downtown.

We were traveling through with two dogs and La Quinta was the place to stay. There were no pet fees, prices reasonable and I was really surprised at how nice the rooms were. Very modern and clean rooms. I did notice some stains on the carpet but it didn’t bother me. The beds were very comfortable. Location was fantastic and convenient to downtown. We walked 10 minutes to the restaurants, etc. Overall, I was incredibly pleased.

Super friendly & accommodating concierge staff. I stayed here 4 nights with my doggie and everyone was very nice. Free breakfast and they had a variety of healthy choices :) Very good nightly rate too!

My dad and I had a great experience here. We stated for the night, at a decent rate (especially during the Pacers playoff games — which is why we came to Indiana) A lot of reviews are negative about this hotel, so I will first touch on the positives
–Clean room
–Comfortable bed
–Friendly staff
–They let us check in early
–The manager (Don) was so helpful to the two of us — he helped us print out our BBall game tickets, gave us directions and recommended places for us to eat
–So close to Bankers Life Fieldhouse
Cons:
–typical cheap hotel breakfast — nothing good
–Hallways and elevator need an update

Not the worst, but not very good. They didn’t give me the right room, so I almost had to share a bed.
Yes, it’s fairly close to downtown.
Yes, it’s rather cheap.
Yes, it’s a familiar brand.
Yes, they have breakfast.
Yes, they have pretty good parking.
Yes, you won’t die in your sleep or have to ward off legions of bedbugs.
But…
It’s not entirely clean, the hallways look like something out of The Shining, the service wasn’t very friendly, and you’ll wish you’d spent an extra 50 bucks for places four or five times nicer.

For just an overnight stay in downtown Indy on a budget this place is fine… if you don’t plan on spending any time in your room.
Pros
1. Decent location. 1 mile to Circle Center so it’s walkable.
2. Nice staff.
3. Free parking.
Cons
1. Floors in lobby area were always muddy and wet… recipe for disaster. I understand there was snow but come on people!
2. The elevators are freaky scary, especially when you get back late at night, half-​blasted and your spouse finds the light switch! Only enough room for two people inside… and a suitcase.
3. The walls are paper thin. You can hear your neighbors misgivings as well as the drunkards in the hallway at night.
4. The bathrooms are unforgivingly small. No room for 2.
5. The breakfast in the a.m. is less than impressive with hard as rock, cold biscuits and gravy that looks like its has been cooking in crockpot all night long… and tastes like it has.
6. The couches in the seating area look like someone spoogied all over them. Get new ones for goodness sake.
7. The outside of the hotel makes the area look a tad shady. Seriously dated.
8. The room was either too hot with heater on or too cold with it off. No in between.
9. The sheets were see through from over-use…replace them already!
Having said all that… if you’re looking for a bed for 8 hours and close to downtown this is your place!

Terrible… No water, then no hot water. Heater in room would only go on or off so either freezing or a sauna.
But great sounds of helicopters all night, next to a helicopter pad…
Would never stay with family, I was put up here on business trip.

My friend got 2 rooms through Hotwire at this location. Her room was perfectly fine while my room had the following problems:
Cons:
–Furniture: Ottoman leg was completely broken. I almost hit my head on the air condition when i sat on it.
–Air con: It was an old system BUT it worked. Problem was it leaked all over the floor. I did not feel the carpet wet until the last day when I finally decided to open the curtains. And when I tried to turn it to heat because it got so cold one time the fire alarm went off within seconds.
–Trash: I moved the nightstand a little so I could plug in my charger only to find food wrappers under the nightstand. I didn’t bother to look under anything else after that.
–Lighting: Only 2 lamps worked. The lamp on the desk didn’t even have a lightbulb so I could use my laptop. When I took the lightbulb from the other lamp to use at the desk and tried to turn it on I realized the whole lamp wasn’t working.
–Cleanliness: So much soap scum on the shower curtains.
Regardless of how you get a hotel room you shouldn’t have to deal with simple issues like that. We were told it was remodeled last year for the Superbowl but it seemed like they never did any upkeep. There were too many issues to call downstairs and complain so I just dealt with it since I was out most of the time.
Pros:
–Bed was extremely comfortable
–The staff I would run into were extremely nice
–Convenient location
–Microwave. I rarely see microwaves in hotel rooms.

I travel a lot for work and stay at all kinds of hotels. This had to be among the nastiest I’ve experienced. The first room I was given smelled strongly of cat pee. The doors separating the rooms did very little to block out the, um, sounds (which means I got to hear my neighbors get it on… goody gumdrops…). The hotel is on a busy downtown street, so there was a lot of traffic noise, too. The demolition project across the street did not help with the noise factor, either. The desk person switched my room without any problems, so that’s a plus. The second room was much better. Not awesome, but better. Like a totally different hotel. I’m thinking, why didn’t you just give me this room in the first place? I’ll be back to Indy, but I won’t be back to La Quinta Downtown. Yuck.
Oh, and the «free wi-​fi» never worked. Sigh…

If you find yourself SOL in regards to a hotel room in downtown Indy, La Quinta is certainly not the worst thing to happen to you.
The Good:
–Super friendly staff
–Free breakfast including some fresh fruit, juice, cereal, etc
–Modern lobby with decent sized flatscreen due to the remodel
–Clean rooms
–Nice sized LG flatscreen in said room
–Beds were comfy enough
The Not So Good:
–In room bathrooms are sad: Tiny showers with an awkward, half moon curtain and a toilet from 1983, I believe
–Beyond shampoo and soap, that’s it for toiletries
–The location is fairly close to downtown (very walkable) but it sits right on Washington St — a very busy and sometimes loud road
–Elevators are incredibly slow. Just take the stairs.
If you find yourself thirsty or hungry, vending machines are available on each floor, and that’s where you can score your bottled water and other snacky goods. If you’re in a bind or on a budget, La Quinta should work out just fine.

I was heading into downtown Indianapolis for a conference at the Crowne Plaza and wanted to bring along my dog to save on boarding costs. I was excited to see that a new La Quinta (renovated older hotel) had opened in downtown. I called to make sure they were open and to ask for the dog policy.
Here are the Pros and Cons of this new place (keep in mind they had only been open a few weeks or less at the time of my stay — some kinks were expected)
Cons: Check-​in took a while — the attendant was a little flustered when 3 separate guests all showed up at the same time; A little further away from the middle of the action; When the doors shut, they slam shut; Next to a helicopter tour place, not too loud but it could have been
Pros: Price — Can’t beat less than $ 80 per night in downtown Indy; Pet Friendly — any room and no charge!!!; Parking — free AND covered in the hotel so pretty easy to monitor; Breakfast — Waffles, coffee, cereal, pastries, fruit; Rooms — Very comfortable beds, desk, LCD tv with basic cable, microfridge, great shower pressure, and all the regular amenities; helpful staff; close to the action but far enough removed for a restful evening
I really do recommend this hotel! I used to be very skeptical of La Quinta but the company has really improved their rooms and amenities. This hotel is nicely updated and offers an affordable option for downtown Indianapolis. Easy access to the sports arenas (you could walk and save on parking because it’s less than 2 miles away) and other downtown fun! Plus, you really can’t beat free stays for pets! FREE! Wow! Keep it up La Quinta!