Review: Hilton Austin Airport

Thank you for the pictures of the bottled water and your hotel room door.

The Austin hotel market is suffering from undercapacity as the city has grown quickly, so believe it or not the rates you were seeing for hotels in the city are about normal even if nothing particular is going on in town.

Providing simple amenities at check in is a good idea as sometimes you may need to change the room you have and thus need to have your amenities related (even if you online check in). I have had cases where the room I picked online was pulled from me before I got to the property. I also feel that you are less likely to get upgraded if you check in online although now there is a note that you are still eligible.

Thanks for loving Texas! I think you would really enjoy Austin if you spent a day or two there. Being a Dallas native I was always a bit jealous that I did not live in Austin.

That weekend was the second weekend of Austin City Limits, which is one of the biggest events that draws people to Austin. Not a surprise hotels were expensive.

@Lucky -- Which version of the HHonors App are you using?

Anyway, thanks for that demo of Hilton's online check-in, which I have not tried (can you get guess why!), but looks really cool.

Whereas Hyatt's IT remains as unreliable as every, Hilton has really stepped up their, just like they have stepped up pretty much everything else. This may not be common knowledge because I found it out accidentally but if have a laptop that runs Windows 8.x or Windows 10 (does not work for anything lower), you should download the desktop version of the HHonors app. It is absolutely slick. All the info is at your finger tips, with an incredibly intuitive GUI. The 'look and feel' is more like that of smartphone app than that of a desktop appl, and that it because it is adapted from the HHonors app for Windows phone.

You really should try it because the app is self-contained and seems "local" because you would no longer need a web browser. This means that you just login to your account without having to contend with the annoying captcha. I will post the link in the next comment.

BTW, @Lucky, thanks for this review because I went to undergraduate at Southwestern University -- a small liberal arts university in Georgetown, just 25 min north of Austin, and the oldest university in Texas -- from 1977 to 1981, i.e. exactly 35 years ago. I have been back there only once since, despite multiple invitations to celebrate various anniversaries and/or homecomings. So, I am really thinking that a visit back to the area, including Austin, where I "grew up" may be in order. I can see Hilton Austin Airport coming in handy...

I have visited Austin numerous times, and have never found such a thing as a decent rate downtown. I always have a car, so end up stay outside of downtown.

Link for the HHonors app for Windows desktop:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/hilton-hhonors/9wzdncrdljrp#app-details

The app works on these supported OSes:
Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows Phone 10
Windows Phone 8.1
Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 7

From your desktop running a supported OS, go to the link ab above and click on the "Get the app".

P.S. I just posted a complete description of the HHonors app, with the typos, missing words, etc, cleaned up, and pictures of how the app looks like and works:

https://milepoint.com/forums/threads/get-the-slick-hhonors-app-for-windows-desktop-and-avoid-the-annoying-web-brower-login-captcha.137173/

I stayed here a few days ago. Lucky's is accurate. I never eat the breakfast because I always have an early flight the next morning.

What a nube to stay in this hotel............you lowered yourself enormously by this decision of utter insanity..............what disrespect for Austin............you must be an Aggie..............

Oh my! You should have stayed at the historic Driskill Hotel (part of Hyatt family). If you ever need a great rate, let me know as I know the manager personally.

This was a weird post to see.... as an Austin-ite. I always knew that hotel was there, but didn't think people really stayed there unless they had too.
Anyway, next time spend some time in our fair city, have a taco, see a show, hike the greenbelt. Hit me up if you need any specific

Stayed here a few times back in my old life when I had a client in Austin. It's a decent airport hotel, though the main reason for staying here was that it was a ton cheaper than downtown hotels (and it was a shorter drive back from Lockhart when I'd make a BBQ run after work). As for the price, as someone else mentioned, you were there during Austin City Limits, but weekend prices in general tend to be quite high these days all over the city. ATX has become a very popular weekend destination, for good reason.