31. Embassy Suites Hotel
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 733-8900
Address: 4554 Lake Forest Dr.
Description: This Embassy Suites in the heart of the Blue Ash business corridor makes a nice first impression with a large, luxurious atrium filled with tropical plants. The five-story, 235-suite hotel has meeting rooms, a heated indoor pool, game room, sauna, whirlpool, and coin laundry. The on-site restaurant, Cascades, features a waterfall and babbling brook. The spacious suites include TVs, bars, microwaves, refrigerators, dataports, coffeemakers, and iron and ironing board. Guests receive a free cooked-to-order breakfast.
32. Great Wolf Lodge
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (800) 913-9653
Address: 2501 Great Wolf Drive
Description: Great Wolf Lodge is a newly built, $100 million indoor hotel and water park that spans 39 acres. There are spas and fitness centers on-site, as well as a Starbucks, Pizza Hut Express, and two full-service restaurants. A Great Clock Tower in the lobby comes to life three times daily. The water park is enclosed and features six warm pools that include 11 waterslides, including a water roller coaster. The facility is open daily, year-round (the water park is open to room guests only).
33. Hampton Inn Kings Island
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 459-8900
Address: 5323 Beach Boulevard
Description: This hotel is close to the Beach Waterpark (one-fourth of a mile away) and Kings Island (less than a mile). Facilities at the Mason complex include an indoor pool, a dry-cleaning service, and a laundry on-site. Rooms include free movie channels, dataports, and interior corridor doors, and there are special Jacuzzi suites. A complimentary continental breakfast is served.
34. Kings Island Resort and Conference Center
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 398-0115
Address: 5691 Kings Island Drive
Description: You won’t get much closer to Kings Island, the Beach, and the Golf Center at Kings Island without pitching a tent on the grounds (not recommended or allowed). This popular conference location has 286 rooms in two stories, with a mix of interior and exterior corridors. A full package of amenities includes two pools—one heated and one indoors—sauna, whirlpool, putting green, two tennis courts, exercise room, coin laundry, playground, free shuttle to the theme park’s door (not an inconsiderable perk, saving your family both effort and the $10 per day parking charge), and on-site restaurant and lounge. Some rooms have bars, coffeemakers, microwaves, and refrigerators.
35. La Quinta Cincinnati Northeast
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 459-1111
Address: 9918 Escort Drive
Description: An unusual feature at this hotel is the indoor greenhouse pool and spa. Rooms include a work desk, coffeemaker, cable TV, and iron and ironing board. Suites include a recliner, microwave, and refrigerator. Business facilities include free use of the fax machine (up to five pages). There’s a Lone Star Steakhouse next door, and Kings Island is just 4 miles away. A free continental breakfast is served.
36. Red Roof Inn
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 793-8811
Address: 5900 Pfeiffer Road
Description: This motel provides dependable chain quality in a nice location minutes from Blue Ash businesses. There’s no on-site restaurant, but plenty of options are nearby, including the popular Marx Hot Bagels, a short drive down Kenwood Road.
37. Residence Inn Blue Ash
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 530-5060
Address: 11401 Reed Hartman Highway
Description: Always a good bet for extended stays or business trips to the Blue Ash business center, Residence Inn offers 118 nicely decorated one- and two-bedroom apartment suites. Many have fireplaces, some have two baths, and each unit has dataports and a full kitchen. There’s also a complimentary breakfast.The comfortable lobby has a fireplace. But you won’t have to just sit around looking at the fire; you can avail yourself of the heated pool, whirlpool, exercise room, sports court, and volleyball court. Weekly, monthly, and seasonal rates are available.
38. Springhill Suites Cincinnati Northeast
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 683-7797
Address: 9365 Waterstone Boulevard
Description: Located near the Kings Auto Mall, this property offers one of the more affordable stays within a 2-mile perimeter of Kings Island. The 102-room facility offers an indoor pool, a spa, and a free continental breakfast. There’s a microwave and refrigerator in every room, and an on-site convenience store.
39. TownePlace Suites
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 774-0610
Address: 9369 Waterstone Boulevard
Description: This extended-stay complex does not offer single-night stays but is an ideal consideration for families planning to hit Kings Island for a full week (and don’t kid yourself, many families do). Like its companion Springhill Suites, it’s operated by Marriott and offers many of the amenities you’d expect.
40. Wingate Inn by Wyndham
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 733-1142
Address: 4320 Glendale–Milford Road
Description: This very affordable 82-room, four-story hotel sits directly across from the Blue Ash Airport. There’s an indoor pool, and rooms are outfitted with dataports and coffeemakers.
41. AmeriSuites
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 825-9035
Address: 12001 Chase Plaza Drive
Description: A great suite hotel, AmeriSuites looks more like a condominium complex than a hotel. It’s convenient to shopping at Cincinnati Mills and Tri-County Mall and to a host of fine restaurants. The 126 rooms include a mixture of king-size-bed and double-bed rooms, all of which have bars, microwaves, refrigerators, and VCRs. Some rooms have coffeemakers. There’s also an on-site laundromat.
42. Baymont Inn
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 771-6888
Address: 10900 Crowne Point Drive
Description: You get a free continental breakfast, and the inn has all-interior corridors, meeting rooms, an outdoor pool, and video players (for an additional fee). The four-story, 130-room hotel has several dining choices nearby.
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Address: 6189 Mulhauser Road (just off the
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Address: 11911 Sheraton Ln.
45. Doubletree Guest Suites
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (513) 489-3636
Address: 6300 East Kemper Road
Description: Doubletree is an attractive suite hotel on wooded grounds with a posh lobby and corridors at I-275 and Reed Hartman Highway, right on the Sharonville/Blue Ash border (making it a toss-up whether to place this listing in the Northeastern section or here). The three-story, 152-room hotel has all one-bedroom suites, each with a separate living room and refrigerator. There are personal computers and secretarial services for business travelers. Other amenities include an on-site restaurant, heated outdoor pool, whirlpool, and an exercise room.