Holiday Inn Express & Suites Everett

Super clean, super nice.
I stayed here on a short visit to relatives. I was only staying one night so I reserved a standard room (hey, I’m cheap), which means I get whatever’s available. The room was great. King bed, sofa, all the amenities. And CLEAN. The bed was ultra comfortable, great pillows, very quiet. And the bath products smell good. I like that in a hotel, don’t you? You know, not the usual gross hotel shampoo. I was a little late getting down for breakfast in the morning (even though it is open until 9:30, which is later than a lot of places, but did I mention the bed was super comfy?), but it was a decent spread with hot and cold choices and I got plenty to eat, not just the ratty leftovers the early birds didn’t want.
The staff was extremely friendly and helpful, check-​in was fast and easy, and I will definitely stay here every time I need a place in this area. It’s right off I-​5 but you don’t get any traffic noise. The only thing to watch for is it’s a little hinky to get to – when you get off the freeway you have to turn into what looks like a driveway to a little shopping area and it’s tucked back in there. You can see it but the actual street doesn’t take you to the door. Tip: Listen to that lady in your GPS when she says «turn right.» Don’t make the mistake of thinking she means «turn right at the next light.» That’s a serious mistake. :) There are signs but they’re easy to miss.
All in all, excellent place, excellent stay, good rates for the area. I looked at all the online sites, like Trivago and Priceline and the like, and it was just as inexpensive to book directly through the hotel site, so that’s what I did.

I was planning on celebrating st Patrick’s day at Shawn o Donnells and decided I wasn’t going to drive home. It was my birthday so I’ll splurge a little and get a room near by. My mistake that the holiday Inn had moved across the highway. Oh well. The reservation can’t be changed. Checking in the lady at the counter was very quick and polite and I walked right up to my room. Not a large room but nice. And spotless. I mean I could not find any sign of someone ever being there before me. And the window even opens. I can’t remember the last time I was at a hotel where I could only rely on the air conditioning. After relaxing I decided to make the walk over the freeway to the party. But when I reached the bottom of the stairs they were setting up a 5pm brunch in their commons area. Fresh roles and a boring loose leaf salad and chips. It looked like there was something there to make nachos. But they also had an ice chest with beer and wine. I didn’t have any but saw one gentleman going up for a beer. Good brands, too. I did try one of the fresh cookies. Excellent. I think a bowl of sliced cucumbers and another with green onions and baby carrots would have made it much better. But for free you can’t complain. The next morning I got up and ready to go and went down for their breakfast. Actually pretty good. Scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, and that was better than some restaurants I’ve had biscuits and gravy, many different bagels and muffins. And to mention those that work there, everyone was excellent. I really liked the attitude of the two ladies working their kitchen. I had the impression one was in charge but she didn’t act like a boss. More like a teacher and certainly didn’t hesitate doing something for a customer and I could catch a little of their conversation while they quickly prepared the different elements of the morning which was a lot. They both struck me as happy with their jobs and the quality of what they were making. And I saw no frustration when someone would ask for something else or a question. Definitely will be a first choice for me when I want a hotel. Also, I chose the king size bed and it was very comfortable and the big pillows were the foam kind which I don’t like but theirs almost made me think that they may be part feathered. I didn’t check about that. If I was told to pick something negative it would be the outside noise. It seemed like I could hear the highway traffic all night but I did have the window open so that noise could have been made less. All in all I was very happy. My first choice will be holiday inn. I have stayed in one at Washington DC and it was the same impression.

Clean rooms and attentive service. Can work on the breakfast items.

This hotel is located just off I5 it’s very easy to get to. When we arrived we were greeted by a friendly young woman. When we checked in we inquired about a senior discount of which she seemed to not be aware but looked it up for us and found it. She let us know where all of the amenities were and what time everything ended and began. Right near the desk there are cookies, apples and a newspapers in the lobby then you walk down into the breakfast room.
The breakfast room is very good size with several tables and a few lounge chairs. There is plenty of coffee and other hot beverages, a fridge with milk and yogurt, a pancake maker, fresh baked cinnamon rolls and the regular continental breakfast items. If u don’t have time to eat they have breakfast bags to take with you!
The room is adequate size not tiny and not big. The beds are horrible and the comforter was ad thin as the sheet. The pillow cases had firm and soft stitched onto them making it easier to get the one you want. Even being located close to a high traffic road you can’t really hear it in the room. The shower was great nice pressure easy to use and the bathroom seemed clean (except the back of the door).
The pool area is small, it’s not really a lap pool. It’s 3 ft deep on both ends and goes to 5 ft in the middle. There are extra towels in the pool area and they were well stocked. There is just 2 one stall unisex bathrooms in the pool area so you will want to change before you go to the pool. It has a shower to rinse off located next to the hot tub so when someone is rinsing off it splashes into it (not a lot).
There are a lot of restaurants in walking distance of this hotel. Ranging from fast food to locally owned. There are not really any sidewalks leading from the hotel to any of them, you have to walk through connected parking lots.

Good location North of Seattle. Clean rooms and friendly staff.
I stay here a few times a month, good location, budget friendly, and offers a managers reception. Lots of restaurants nearby.
I would recommend

I’ve stayed here 3 times now and every time has been good! The front desk staff is always helpful whenever I stay here. The rooms are what you get for the most part at any other holiday inn. This locations prices are usual the cheapest in the area. The only real problem that I have about this hotel, is that the tv stations go in and out quite frequent. Other than that, this location is nice!
Unilocal 100 challenge 2016– ¹⁄₁₀₀

Best hotel I’ve stayed in a long time!!!
It was CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN. I was sooo glad that I got to stay here because all the hotels were pretty pricey in August but I got a good deal through Priceline.
I compare all my experiences to my stay here.
1. Great customer service… Check
2. Clean Rooms… check
3. Continental Breakfast plus… Rice…triple check!!!
4. Almond milk… I don’t even know what to say.
I stayed in a four star Hilton Garden that couldn’t touch this.

After the windstorm and having no power in lake Stevens we decided to book a hotel. Originally we were going to stay at the laquinta for $ 89 a night. But then right next to the laquinta I saw holiday inn express. Remembering staying at several holiday inns after I left the military, I remembered they always had nicer beds and nice sheets, so to me, it was worth paying $ 50 more a night. I get here and they have the worst beds thinnest mattress I’ve ever slept on in my life in a hotel and all the linens with layered sheets instead of any type of blanket. Absolutely was not worth the extra money but the staff is friendly and they had a nice breakfast bar. Look elsewhere. 149 bucks is redonk for this place.

Had a little trouble finding the hotel. Not visible from 128^th once you exit I-​5. If coming from I-​5 make an immediate right off 128 and the hotel is nestled in next to La Quinta and Kids N Us in what they call the Bermuda Triangle. I was thinking it was next to Alderwood Mall but it seemed like almost 2 – 3 miles North of the Alderwood Mall exit. Superb front desk staff, polite and attentive. My first room overlooked I-​5 exit and I could hear traffic. Once I changed to room overlooking the back street and what looked like a childcare center and La Quinta my room was quieter. FYI: rooms with an odd number face away from the noise of I-​5. Spacious room with king size mattress (a little too firm but doable) and the basics: microwave, frig, flat screen, 2 desk w/​chairs, couch, iron & ironing board, blow dryer and great working wi-​fi. The larger room with two beds had extra linen and blankets available in room and 2 flat screen TV’s. Most important is the room and bathroom were very clean. I was sorry I didn’t bring my swim suit for the pool and jacuzzi looked sparkling clean. There’s a small workout room w/​stationary bike, elliptical, treadmills and weights. The entire hotel, lobby, eating area, halls, bathroom and room itself looked pretty clean. Complimentary breakfast and also evening reception serving wine and snacks. I didn’t go so To the evening reception so can’t say what all was served. Breakfast in AM is the usual eggs, sausage, various fruit, pancakes, coffee, juices, hot drinks and lots of bread options. If you are a late sleeper you may have problems sleeping last 9 AM for there are a lot of employees busy cleaning everywhere in this hotel. At 10 AM I hear vacuuming outside my door in the hallway that went non stop for almost an hour. Had I been trying to sleep it would have been a problem. I’m planning on staying here from now on when traveling to Seattle.

By far the best place I’ve stayed in Everett. Super easy freeway access, stores, restaurants and coffee close by, free parking, hot breakfast. Room was clean and nice with a sofa, desk, dresser and even a vanity/​dressing table. WIFI was reliable and staff was very nice. When I return to the area, I will stay here again.

great hotel, great service, food also great. stay here about once a month, and its always nice, clean, consistent :)

The staff in this hotel blatantly lied to me. I reserved a room 4 months prior to my stay and was told that if I book online then I could receive a room I specifically requested. On the day of my stay, I called at 12:45 to ask when the room will be ready (since I remembered being told check-​in was at 3:00). They said it’d be ready in 45 minutes. An hour later I came back but was told it wasn’t ready and that check-​in was at 4:00, not 3:00. Annoyed, I left and waited. When I returned at 4:15, the room *still* was not ready. I was also told my room wasn’t the one I requested when I booked. They’d given the room I paid for 4 months ago to someone else. I was told that whatever gets requested during an online booking is just a suggestion, not a guarantee. I asked for a refund and stayed at a different hotel.
The staff lies to the faces of paying customers. The staff doesn’t care when an issue arises. The Best Western Navigator at 10 210 Evergreen Way has *significantly* better suites than this hotel for *the exact same price* (including nicer staff). Go there. Don’t go here.

Only complaint I would have is the breakfast… But it’s free– so I can’t do much complaining. I wish it wasn’t so full of carbs and had more fruit. But the location is good (rent a car if you plan on going to Seattle), clean, quiet, and spacious modern rooms. :)!

Lovely and helpful staff! Brooke at the front desk was super sweet, and she multitasked so well! Thank goodness for great front desk staff!

Stayed for one night after attending a wedding nearby – front desk staff was VERY accommodating and gave us an early check-​in. Hotel is clean, staff is really nice – the mattress pad for the pull-​out sofa was holey and I had to go downstairs and ask for linens, but that wasn’t a big deal. Taking off a star for the noise and the sofabed. We were in room 319 (end room, on the non-​freeway side of the hotel, next to the stairs) and the exterior noise was kinda hard to sleep through. Lots of sirens and traffic/​engine loudness outside; some yahoo got his big rig stuck in the parking lot and it turned into quite the 10PM drama show trying to get him out. It was so loud, I kept checking the window to make sure it was closed. I’m guessing a room near the middle of the hotel, on the backside (so on the third floor, that’d be an odd number between like, 303 and 311ish) would be quieter in terms of exterior noise. The sofabed mattress was a mess – the innards of the mattress were coming out and the thing was ripped to shreds. Very close to the freeway, grocery stores, and restaurants. Don’t know if we’ll be back up this way any time soon, but we’d stay here again if we needed a place to crash.

This hotel is very neat and clean. I’ve stayed at this hotel 2X and each time I’ve been warmly greeted upon check in. The rooms are very clean and quiet, especially since it’s very close to I-​5.
The last time I stayed there I thought the prior guests stole the shower curtain. It turns out that they are frequently washed. But housekeeping forgot to return mine. Thankfully I noticed before I got into the shower.
They have plenty of free parking and a free continental breakfast.
My room came with a king bed, full size couch and coffee table, microwave and mini fridge. A very good deal for about $ 120.
The hotel allowed me to have a 2pm check out.
They have free wi-​fi! Bonus.
NIce! I’ll be back.

You can’t go wrong staying here. I’ve been to many hotels some better, & many worse, but what I’m most impressed with these days is a hotel that doesn’t nickel & dime you to death.
Checking in was quick and the staff was extremely friendly.
Let’s just run down the list to make it simple…
— Free Breakfast
— Free Internet
— Free Manager’s Reception
= This includes beer/​wine & food… tonight was taco night. It may not be Mexico or even Arizona faire, but Free always beats paying $ 10 — $ 20 for a meal that’s just ok.
There’s really no reason for me to give it any less than 4÷5… Room is always clean when I return & I like having the fridge in the room to keep snacks, juice and such cool and fresh.
Ok, you don’t have the consierge service, but the staff is knowledgable enough to know where to go or what to do in the area.
I would definitely stay here again if and when I’m in the area again:-)

Wow! Who knew you could find a decent hotel room with a king size bed, fireplace and a jetted two person tub for under $ 150! The room was clean and nice, with free internet and DVDs at the front desk. Continental breakfast had eggs and fruit, not just the usual stale pastries and fruit loops. Extra points for having Soy milk. Not a bad way to visit Everett… if you have to visit Everett.

We stayed here for 3 nights, it was the 3^rd HIE that we stayed in during our week-​long stay in Seattle and it was the favourite for both of us (aside from the fact they made a mistake and blocked off the cost of our stay on our credit card even though we pre-​paid!).
It’s easy to get to — just off the freeway, it’s not too far from Seattle, so if you’re a tourist you get a great hotel with free parking and wifi for a good deal (some city centre hotels charge insane amounts for parking!).
From the minute we checked in the staff were friendly, welcoming, helpful and nice — some places tend to frown or treat pre-​paid guests as ‘less than’ but not here!
The lady at check-​in informed us about the Managers reception (free beer, wine, sodas and delicious nachos — with proper home made chilli in a crock pot!) that was going on for another hour after we’d arrived which we indulged in — it was delicious and fun, the staff made an effort to talk to everyone and were genuinely interested in their guests stories where they were from etc.
The room was a king suite — the fridge froze our drinks solid but beyond that the room was excellent, clean, spacious, we had a dvd player in the room and they had dvds for guests to borrow for free behind the check in desk — it was a little noisy at times (trash day, testing of fire alarms etc) but we really enjoyed our stay.
We used the hot tub/​pool area too, the hot tub could do with being a little hotter and my standard hotel complaints — the pillows are way too soft and the towels need to be bigger than postage stamps!
All of that said, I’d highly recommend this hotel and when we go back to the Seattle area, we’ll definitely stay here again!

Fine HI Express experience for a two night visit in March 2010. Liked the breakfast (free) and happy hour (free). The staff made sure we were happy. Also enjoy the indoor pool and hot tub.