My spouse and I stayed at the
Hampton Inn and Suites Lake Placid for three nights in early July 2019. We
reserved our stay on the Hilton HHonors website. The hotel was near capacity
during our first night there, which was the July Fourth holiday; Lake Placid
has a parade, outdoor concert, and fireworks to mark the day, so lots of locals
and out-of-towners were there to celebrate. We spent more on our room at this
Hampton Inn than we have ever spent on another Hampton Inn; but to be fair, it
was a nicer-than-average property with a good location.
The Hampton Inn and Suites
Lake Placid opened in summer 2013 across the street from Mirror Lake, near the
town’s public tennis courts and beach, and within easy walking distance of the
Olympic Museum and Hhockey/ice rinks, and the village’s main street. If you
have a lakeside room with a balcony (we did not; ours faced the parking lot),
you’ll enjoy a view of the lake and the surrounding mountains. The hotel also
offers excellent views from its lakeside patio (complete with fire pit and
nightly s’mores) as well as from the many windows in its vaulted-ceilinged great
room (restaurant/bar/public space). The property also has an indoor pool and
whirlpool, fitness room, business center, pantry shop, conference/meeting rooms,
and dedicated surface lot parking. The restaurant offers its guests a
complimentary breakfast, which includes both hot (make-your-own waffles in two
sizes and two flavors, eggs, meat) and cold (including two flavors of
smoothies) selections or grab-and-go bags on weekdays. The bar has happy hour
specials (including some complimentary snacks like cheese and crackers, or even
barbecue one night) that can be charged to your room. The bar offers only
bottled/canned alcoholic beverages (so no hard liquor), but oddly, nothing
non-alcoholic besides tap water. We were instructed to buy our own
non-alcoholic items from the pantry shop and bring them to the bar, even though
there was a sign in the bar that forbid outside food and beverages. Note that
the hotel does not have a formal kitchen; therefore, no meals besides breakast
are served. Instead, there’s a pub right next door (Lake Placid Pub and
Brewery; see our separate review), as well as many other restaurants within
walking distance (see our other reviews of The Pickled Pig, Jimmy’s 21, and the
Great Adirondack Steak and Seafood Company).
Many of the 97 rooms at the
Hampton Inn are studio suites with either a king or two queen beds. Our room
had a wet bar with empty mini-fridge, microwave, and coffee maker in the entry
way (with a tile floor) that led to the living area side of the room, with a
full-size sleeper sofa and end table. A long piece of furniture that doubled as
a desk/table divided the living and sleeping sides of the room. The bedroom
area contained a king-size bed with a nightstand on each side. The vanity and
sink for the room were located outside the actual bathroom, which had a toilet
and combination bathtub/shower.
We enjoyed our stay at the
Hampton Inn and Suites Lake Placid, and we would stay there again.
