I usually stay at the courtyard downtown, but it was sold out, so I stayed in this one, honestly, this is going to be note my new go-to hotel when I'm staying in Edmonton, it's a Marriott so the quality is going to be the same, but the simple fact that the parking is free is so much better, I'm still 20 minutes away from where I'm going to so there's no difference between staying in this location rather than the one in downtown. Downtown. The one thing that was a little weird, I came back to the hotel around midnight, there were a couple of people hanging out front smoking, other than that, the hotel's great.