For service, value and selection, this hotel cannot be beat. The staff were incredible!!! They were so friendly, it was like staying with family.
The really great thing was, it was within walking distance to everything...all of the major attractions were just minutes away by foot.
The breakfast bar is unbelievable. It was hard not to overdo it, everything was so good, and it was always kept clean. The only problem, was that it could be hard to find a seat. Not that there was no seating, it's just that they have a lot of huge tables tht fill up fast, and for couples who would rather eat alone, there are only 6 little tables rammed into a tiny corridor of the breakfast room. Sometimes, if all of the couples tables were full, it made manouvering around people difficult....especially with a full plate of food and a steaming hot beverage!
All in all, I am so glad that I chose this hotel, I think you would enjoy it here too.
P.S. At the end of a hot, humid July day, there is no better place to relax then by the rooftop pool on the 7th floor.

We stayed only one night at this Holiday Inn Express, but it was a nice lodging choice for us.

The lobby is quite small, but because we were with a large bus tour, we were not inconvenienced by any check-in wait. (Reps from the tour company ran that gauntlet and room keys were waiting for us on arrival). The food service area just off the lobby was clean and efficiently attended by HIE employees when we ventured down to sample our complimentary breakfast. The breakfast bar was well stocked with hot and cold offerings including scrambled eggs & pork sausage patties.

Our room was on the small side, but nicely appointed and CLEAN, let me tell ya. The bed was wonderfully firm and comfortable.

The bathroom was luxe, with a generous number of soft towels and nice selection of grooming products.

This HIE is easy for us to recommend as a hotel choice when visiting Philadelphia.

My first impression of the neighborhood was not good, but it really grew on me through my stay. The hotel is old, but the room was clean and comfortable. The front desk staff were very friendly and helpful. The pool on the deck of the sixth floor was nice. The location was convienient to all of the downtown sites. We walked to the historic district with no problems. The breakfasts were ok. The first morning there was a student group there getting breakfast at the same time as us. The room was very crowded but we managed to get to a table just a someone was getting up. We had no issues with noise. Also there are several restaurants nearby.

We stayed at this hotel for 3 days in late May. It is centrally located in downtown Philadelphia, an easy walk to most places that we wanted to visit. We also discovered that we could catch the Philly Phlash bus just 5 or 6 blocks away near the Reading Terminal Market. This is great for tourists as it makes a round trip from Penn Station to the Philadelphia Art Museum, stopping at most places of interest and arrives every 12 minutes. We loved it because as seniors we could ride free.

We had a corner room on the 14th floor of the hotel. It was quiet and comfortable and reasonably roomy. The bath was a little on the small side, but the sink and vanity were in a alcove outside the bathroom, so we found it very convenient.

They serve the standard Holiday Inn Express complimentary hot breakfast (with a few additions). Free breakfasts are often hard to find in downtown hotels. The large breakfast room is in the front of the hotel on the street side and appears to have been a restaurant before the hotel became a Holiday Inn Express.

The staff were very nice and helpful. We had booked our room on the hotel website two or three months in advance and got a very good rate. When the bill was slipped under our door on the morning of our departure, it was a considerably higher rate. We pointed this out to the folks at the front desk and they were very considerate in correcting the bill to the original quoted rate.