Hotel help please

michgirl8

Hello everyone!  Hope you're all having a great summer!  I need your help once again.  I'm having issues with figuring out a decent hotel for our guests for the weddingl.  Our ceremony is in Birmingham, but the reception is at Lakeland Manor in St. Clair Shores.  I am so depressed at the hotel options in the SCS area.  The closest reasonably nice hotel I've found was the Hampton Inn in Roseville/Clinton Township.  But that's still not very close and I wasn't particularly impressed with the management there, so I'm not all that excited about using them.  Would you use a downtown Detroit hotel?  If so, should I arrange a shuttle or something?  Does anyone have any suggestions as to what they did or plan to do? I'm hoping there is a great hotel that I just don't know about in the area - or one that you love that I wouldn't otherwise think is very nice.   I would love to hear anyone's thoughts.  I have a lot of friends coming from out of town, and would like for them to have a nice place to stay but also make it as convenient as possible.  Right now that seems like I'm looking for a purple unicorn. 

Meegles4

I don't have any hotel recs for SCS, but I would try to stick with something that's close as opposed to getting a block in the city. People are already doing a lot of driving between the ceremony in b-ham and the reception in SCS, don't make them drive again to Detroit to their hotel.

A shuttle would be a nice touch, but keep in mind the turn time. If the hotel you choose is 15 minutes away from the reception, it's going to take at least 30 for a round trip of the shuttle. If you don't get a shuttle that holds all your guests, you could have guests waiting at peak times at the beginning and end. This happened to us and it made people slightly cranky.

binnie1

Sadly there are not a lot of options in that area.  There is a Holiday Inn Express on Little Mack and Masonic, right off I-94, I think that is Roseville.  If you look in the general area, there are a few others too - Little Mack, 13 Mile.  Your next best bet is the Warren/Sterling Heights area all along Van Dyke, north of 696.  Its probably a little far for SCS but that's near the GM Tech Center so there is more capacity in the area.

There may be still be the Park Crest Motor inn or something like that on the 94 Service drive in the Harper Woods/GP Woods area.  

Or hotels in Detroit - the Marriot, etc.  But a lot of people don't like driving to Detroit late at night (not me, just saying!).

Hope that helps a little!

Sue-n-Kevin

I'm an east sider, and the prior posters are right, there aren't really any "nice" hotels on the east side.

There is a Red Roof Inn right off I-94 in St Clair Shores. Link here to info on www.tripadvisor.com

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g42658-d235258-Reviews-Red_Roof_Inn_Detroit_St_Clair_Shores-Roseville_Michigan.html

The reviews are pretty good considering it's a Red Roof Inn, "clean", "secure", "comfortable". They might offer a shuttle, or you could look into with your venue, maybe they have some suggestions.

There are a ton on Van Dyke just north of 696 as binnie1 said, I live right near there. I doubt you'd get a shuttle though, as that is going to be far.

michgirl8

Thank you all so much for the feedback.  I think you are totally right that Detroit is just too much to ask of our guests, considering the bham and scs commute that already have to make.  I will probably grudgingly go with the Hampton Inn on Gratiot and just hope for the best.  I'm also going to check out the Red Roof Inn that you suggested, Sue.  Thanks, guys!!