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Colony Inn vs The Hotel Captain Cook
Both Colony Inn and The Hotel Captain Cook are praised by professional travelers. On balance, The Hotel Captain Cook scores significantly higher than Colony Inn. The Hotel Captain Cook comes in at #1 in Anchorage with praise from 10 publications such as Frommer's, Travel + Leisure and Forbes Travel Guide.
Colony Inn
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
325 E. Elmwood, Palmer, AK
From $116 /night
- Restaurant
- Free Parking
- Refrigerator
Lonely Planet
"An old teacher's dorm built during Roosevelt's settling of the Matanuska Valley, the Colony Inn retains the feeling of its original purpose, minus the house mother."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"The 12 rooms are spacious (especially the corner rooms), well kept and equipped with TVs, pedestal sinks and whirlpool tubs. There’s an inviting parlor for reading, furnished with antiques."
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The Hotel Captain Cook
Concierge
Fodor's
Insight Guides
Travel + Leisure
DK Eyewitness
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939 W 5th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501
From $150 /night
- Bar/Lounge
- Hot Tub
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Concierge
"The rooms are pleasant, if a little corporate in style, and quite a bargain for downtown, especially since the hotel is within walking distance of nearly all of Anchorage's main attractions."
Fodor's
"Recalling Captain Cook's voyages to Alaska and the South Pacific, dark teak paneling lines the hotel's interior, and a nautical theme continues into the guest rooms."
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Insight Guides
"Among Anchorage’s finest, all 547 rooms offer either mountain or inlet views. Restaurants, lounges, a coffee shop all on site, and an athletic club with pool, sauna, and steam room."
Travel + Leisure
"The hotel is a wonderful relic of Alaska's pipeline-boom of the 1970’s."
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DK Eyewitness
"One of Anchorage’s oldest and classiest hotels, this yellow high-rise landmark in downtown boasts a dozen shops."
