Name: Hotel Blake, An Ascend Hotel Collection
Address: Chicago, US
Price range: From $250

Hotel Blake, An Ascend Hotel Collection, ChicagoHotel Blake, An Ascend Hotel Collection in Chicago, United States has a corrected score of 3.8 ± 0.2 (solid evidence, 4 of 4 platforms), ranked 25 of 253 hotels we score in Chicago. Its platform ratings, normalised to 0-5, average 3.8 before correction: Booking.com 4.0, Tripadvisor 4.1, Google 4.0, Agoda 3.3. Rooms from about $250 a night (cached, not a live quote).Hotel Blake is a boutique hotel in the Printer's Row district of downtown Chicago, housed in a building dating from 1886 that was refurbished in 2020. It has 162 rooms with smart TVs, minibars and iPod docking stations, and the on-site Meli Café serves meals throughout the day. Facilities include a fitness centre, meeting and event space, and valet parking. Grant Park and Millennium Park are both less than a mile away, so the hotel suits visitors who want to explore the city on foot as well as business guests needing a central base. Rates start at about $250 a night, and parking is by valet only.What stands out

Quiet, spacious, well-kept rooms

Friendly, helpful staff

Walk to Grant and Millennium Parks

24-hour gym with windows

Watch out for

Valet parking only

Nightly rates start around $250

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