Hilton @ Chicago view from Grant Park across the road. The tallest black tower behind the Hilton is Sears Tower.
Hilton @ Chicago view from Sears Tower.
After our short stay in Detroit we loaded up the kiddies and the grandparents and headed off to the windy city CHIGAGO!! Brad found a website called hotwire.com where we have managed to find some pretty good last minute deals. The way that it works is that you choose your town/area and the star rating you want and it searches their database for hotels wanting to fill empty beds for those nights. It means not having a booking too far in advance but so far that has not proven to be of any issue. We went online before leaving Detroit and booked our accommodation and found a 4 star hotel for $79 per room per night (we were looking for 3 but there were none). Good enough deal we thought. Well that was until the name of the hotel was revealed. We had booked ourselves into the very famous Chicago Hilton. This hotel has an AMAZING history starting in the 1920's.
American Presidents stay here, Barrack Obama gave one of his speeches there. The Queen of England stayed there JFK stayed there and Elvis once booked out an entire floor! We felt very honoured to be staying in such a beautiful and historical place.
Chandeliers were everywhere throughout the hotel. This is a hallway outside one of the many ballrooms.
This chandelier was in our elevator.
Our floor had a seperate set of elevators called the Executive Floors. This is our elevator foyer on the ground floor.
This is not the best shot but it is a foyer that goes out onto Michigan Avenue and the stairs go up to the ballroom that Barrack Obama gave a speech in.
The pics behind Riley are of the Obamas speeches in one of the ballrooms at the Hilton @ Chicago
The elevator foyer area on our floor.
JFK leaving the Hilton @ Chicago I think in 1960
This was our view from our room. You can see Buckingham Fountain and Navy Pier off to the left side of the photo.
We all loved our time in Chicago and will definitely go back there again some day for a longer stay.
1 comment:
What a long history of VIP's, you must have felt very fortunate to be there.I bet you could even feel the presence of some of the regulars.
Great photos once again I almost feel like I have been there now.Those chandelliers are just gorgeous.I feel for you having to "Slum" it like that love.You lucky girl.
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