While primarily catering to business travelers and patients at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, this affordable chain hotel is great for families as well. The recently renovated lobby area is full of little nooks to hang out and check email or order food (along with cocktails for the grownups). The hotel also includes a fitness room with a small pool.

Rooms include doubles with two queens, as well as rooms with a king and a sleeper sofa and a king suite with separate bedroom. All rooms include microwave, mini-fridge, coffeemaker and 37-inch LCD television with HBO. The beds are also particularly comfortable, featuring pillow-top mattresses and ultra-soft linens and pillows. The hotel offers easy access to Dartmouth College and the attractions of New Hampshire’s Upper Valley, as well as short drive to Franconia Notch and the western White Mountains.