Candlewood Suites Denver West Federal Ctr

Updated/​shortened: First of all if you have stayed at a Residence Inn by Marriott DO NOT stay here for an extended stay (although one bedroom suites are larger here) — you WILL be disappointed. Yes, the staff is friendly– all four people that work here. Anyway, upon entering the hotel it is clear that it needs a remodel. There is no automatic door so luggage, strollers, and wheel chairs are difficult to enter and exit with. Sometimes the lobby smells like sewage.
housekeeping only comes once a week or they charge more… One of my fiancés coworkers received a note from housekeeping telling him to take his own trash out!!! WTF??!
There is no breakfast so have fun making omelets on your half stove top.
Laundry is free, so is the dryer… It has coin slots though so don’t be fooled.
The fitness center is pretty nice… Has a weight machine instead of just free weights and has an elliptical, bike, and two treadmills. You won’t be cooling off in the pool because there isn’t one.
If you need new towels or sheets you have to go to the desk because obviously there isn’t enough staff to help everyone.

After reading some of the reviews, I can say there is some improvement: WIFI functions well, front desk staff is friendly and attentive, but mostly there is nobody at the desk. However… this hotel… well… it smells. My non-​smoking room smells like an ashtray and even the lobby and halls have an indescribable funk. Not bad for the price if you are hard of smelling, otherwise look elsewhere

Excellent hotel for travelers and even for families. I stayed here with my family of 4 and found the one-​bedroom suite to be perfect. The fold-​out sofa is comfortable for my kids. The kitchen is just right, all the amenities you want to cook and clean. I particularly love the peninsula desk setup that allows for office work but also doubles as a dinner table. The seats are comfortable, including an office chair and a guest chair. The bathroom is well designed and spacious. Most of all, the place is clean and well-​appointed. Well done IHG.
Also, David and Carla at the front desk have been great for us.
Only complaint is that WiFi is hit and miss… often a miss during busy hours.

This hotel is pretty good for the traveler whom will be away from home for awhile. I have been staying at the hotel for about a month of my 3-​month stay. There is no breakfast or dinner provided by the facility, but there is a «cupboard» room where you can buy small food items, some refrigerated items, and some laundry items. It is in the same room where there are 6 washers and 6 dryers that are free to use. This was a major benefit for me. I am not a fan of laundry facilities generally, but this one is right across from room and it is free, so I don’t have to worry about having rolls of quarters available. The room comes with a laundry basket and laundry bags. You can also have the staff do laundry for you and have it charged to your room.
The staff don’t mind if you forward mail to the hotel and are generally pretty accommodating. They will not deliver the mail for you, if you anticipate receiving mail you will need to ask the front desk for your mail. The hotel room is cleaned once a week, and you can change the day as you see fit. At the entrance, there is a board where the weather is updated daily. During snowy times, they try to remove the snow from the parking lot, and the city of Denver does a pretty good job of having the major roads cleared.
The room has a queen bed (the only size at the hotel), a large flat screen TV that is movable on the wall, a 5 foot long closet with 10 removable hangers and a shelf, a DVD/​VHS player with no remote, a large working table with 3 drawers for clothes, a lounging chair, a business desk chair, an end table with a lamp that has a plug on the front (I use it for my cell phone), and two telephones — one at the desk and another at the end table. The kitchen has a full-​size refrigerator with an automatic icemaker, 4 drinking glasses, a colander, a 4 cup measuring cup, towels and pot holders, 2 burner stove, dishwasher, a toaster, a set of 2 of plates and cutlery, a teapot, electrical plug ins every few feet, a wall mounted thermostat, 2 stainless steel saucepans and a non-​stick pan. Weekly the dishwasher soap is replenished. There are 6 cabinets for use above the kitchenette, and 4 pull out drawers below the stove. There is a coffee maker and 4 glass bowls with lids available. Paper towels are stocked weekly. There is wireless internet access available, most of the time it is good enough to stream videos from Netflix or the like. Some days the internet just can’t handle streaming well, I would say probably 80% of the time it has been pretty good. The internet access code changes weekly and you can either get the codes from the front desk or call them. I was able to get the first 4 weekly codes on check-​in.
The bathroom has a tub/​shower combination, a towel rack, 2 drawers under the sink, 3 shelves below the sink, a cabinet below the sink where extra toilet paper is stored, 2 shelves above the sink, a blow dryer and a small shampoo. Weekly there are 3 large towels refreshed and if you need more you are able to get them at the front desk or exchange soiled towels for clean ones at any time.
The Cupboard room has many appliances available for «rent», where you just ask the staff to use whatever is available and you sign out for the time for however long you plan to use it. They have games, books, DVDs, a blender, crockpot, etc available.
There is a mall about 2 miles away from the hotel which has just about everything you could think of. Clothing, food, grocery stores, beauty shops, movie theaters. the mall is a large circular mall broken down into 5 neighborhoods. And there is another mall around 5 – 10 miles away. There is also a home cooking type place across from the hotel, a Dennys, a steak house, a sushi place a couple of blocks away.
I am very satisfied with my stay thus far.

Very nice, clean room, comfortable bed, pantene shampoo, nice thick towels, new modern kitchen

Stayed here for a conference down the street. The room had recently been renovated. Bed and sheets very comfortable. Room was very clean. Room was equipped with a kitchenette with all new appliances and dishes.
The lobby and other areas were very tired feeling more like an old hotel or apartment. I am glad I didn’t make a quick decision to leave before seeing the room because the room proved to be very nice making the stay a value.
Service was excellent. All the girls at the front were super nice. They have a small shop /​wash room which was very tired looking, but I actually appreciated it for supplies and a quick clothes wash prior to my next destination.
I used the gym which was suitable and sizable. A couple of the machines were not working, but they were all new so perhaps I could have checked with the front and they would have helped me out. That didn’t matter cause I had other options and the place to myself.
So Candlewood should consider a renovation of the common areas otherwise you might lose some business before someone a patron makes it to a room.

We stayed at the Candlewood Suites in Lakewood, CO for a month and a half from May 2013 till the middle of June 2013! I was retiring from the military and starting a new job, moving my family to Denver, CO. We had no friends or family in the area, so it was essential to find the right extended-​stay hotel for the right price. For the price, it came down to either Candlewood or Super-​8 (priced similarly, but offered a free pet policy).
I phoned the Candlewood prior to making reservations and spoke with Amanda, the manager and long term reservation POC. Her customer service skills were outstanding, and we negotiated a better than advertised rate for such a long stay. Be advised that any stay 30 days or over aren’t subjected to tax due to the long term, so that really helped the overall price. We even extended our stay with Amanda to match the closing date of the house we eventually found and bought! No hassles at all!
The hotel was recently remodeled, and is modern and attractive outside and in. Most importantly, it is clean and very well maintained. All the amenities were in great working order, and of good quality. We are low-​maintenance guests, so the one day per week of housekeeping for new sheets, towels, and a good cleaning was more than enough for my family of 4 plus dog. The couch-​bed foldout was better quality than any hotel we’ve stayed at in recent years, and the kids didn’t complain once. The hotel was quiet, and all staff members were courteous, friendly, and happy to help at every turn. Free, fast Wi-​Fi, and free coffee to go! Full size fridge, microwave, small stove-​top, and a compliment of dishes complete with dishwasher. I cannot recommend this hotel enough!
The location is also excellent. Literally 1 minute off of highway 6 in Lakewood, there are a multitude of restaurants (both fast food and higher quality food) on the main drag, and a large mall 5 minutes up the road. 10 minutes to the west, there is a large fenced in dog-​park (off-​leash) that was the savior of our dog’s stay. There are plenty of areas to walk a dog on the grounds, but nothing wears a dog out like a good dog park. You can see Red Rocks from the park, and it was a highlight of our stay. 10 min from downtown Denver w/​no traffic, and loads of shopping in the immediate area.

Super nice ! I travel a lot, and this place almost makes me feel like I’m at home!
Very nicely done on the remodel.
Fair price too.

Just checked in, the room is really nice newly remolded super clean, nice kitchen fully stocked. Flat scream TVs in both the living room and bedroom. So far so good…

Loved this hotel, would definitely stay again!
When I got there the room was very clean and just perfect. The receptionist was very nice and informative as well, and after a day of traveling I welcomed a clean room and also loved that they had free movies you could watch in your room. They also had laundry for the hotel guests to use– how awesome! Of course I wasn’t there long enough but it was nice to know it was there.
They also have a gym and small area full of food you can buy (that is very reasonably priced), you just write up what you took and they put it on your card.
I also liked that down the street was a gas station and 7/​11, made the area very convenient, I’ll be coming back to Denver in a few weeks and I am DEFINITELY staying there again!

I only booked this hotel because I read better reviews on the travelocity website. Boy, were they wrong.
I was pretty disappointed with this hotel. I only stayed here for one night, thank goodness!
Like the other reviewers said, it smells funny. And it really sucks that they don’t have WI-​FI. They have an ethernet cable that you hook up your computer to. That sucks.
The hotel smells like smoke even though I got a non-​smoking room. The room is kinda old. The bedding was ok and the pillows were soft. But the towels were so old and yellow-​y looking. It looked old. I’m not sure if they clean their towels every day or not, since they had a sign about changing your towels weekly or something like that.
Service: sometimes there wouldn’t be anyone at the front desk! that was odd. but they were ok.
the only good thing was that they offered free DVD rentals. i thought that was cool. rented a movie but didn’t end up watching it. tv is old but they have a dvd player.
price: $ 67/​night, with taxes. I thought I got a good deal but I was wrong. I’d rather stay at the hotel next door, which I previously stayed at (Towneplace Suites — Federal Center, 800 Tabor street) if I’m ever in the Golden/​Lakewood, Colorado area.

This started out as a cheap bed to sleep in on the way to Summit county. When compared to the price of the hotel, the bed was probably on par; however, upon arrival to the hotel, the aroma of cigerettes and diapers was a pungent punch to the face. The smell of the hallways could have no other description other than cigertettes and diapers, it was a disgustingly comical stench. It made the hairs in my nostrels flair. The room itself was not too bad, almost worth the price of admission if not for the coffee being so rancid in the morning. Overall, if the combo of cigerettes and diapers triggers your fancy or you need a bed for 4 – 6 hours, this place is for you. If not, spend a bit more for a «more» quality sleeping hole.

Keeping it simple, not very happy with this hotel at all. Upon my check-​in day… I had to immediately move to another room becuz the room smelt like burnt syrup. Once in my new room, the cleaning staff left a dirty washcloth on the shower curtain rail. Once I slowed down enough from working after like my 3^rd day at the hotel I went to use the microwave and it didn’t work. That was a Friday night, so I had to wait all weekend for the staff to fix it. I had to take my food down to the front desk for them to warm my food. They have no WIFI here… and I had to call their helpdesk so I could log into our work network. And to top it off, I’ve asked twice for them to bill MY co credit card for my stay and they still haven’t corrected it. It’s a smoking hotel and I get headaches when I’m around smoke. So needless to say… this is NOT a hotel that I’m liking at all. Been here (3) wks and If I’m deployed back here… I’m hoping that I don’t have to stay here. And I can say this over and over… I’m truly a Marriott fan. This is not crackin’!