Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel

Great hotel! Close to the harbor. The hotel was beautiful and everyone was so nice! We ordered room service for breakfast. It came when they said it would and the food was really good.

With all the hotel options in Baltimore, we lucked out with the Renaissance. Clean rooms, friendly staff and great location. Our only complaint was the bed. Our room was huge! It has multiple couches, a wet bar and other amenities, but our bed was the size of a double. Big room and a tiny bed; it was like putting a goldfish in the ocean. In all fairness, we didn’t have a reservation and they still accommodated us. But I have not slept in a bed this small since I was eight.

Large Baltimore hotel with a great location in the inner harbor. Modern décor with that traditional Marriott feel. Coffee bar in the lobby and is adjacent to a mall. A good place to stay for events in the area. Comparable prices to other Renaissance properties. Clean rooms with Aveda products in the bathroom.

This is by far one of the BEST hotels we ever STAYED in!!! They offered me a FREE upgrade and a COMPLIMENTARY bottle of wine and a SMALL personal chocolate CAKE!!! The stay were AWESOME!!! They did ANY and EVERYTHING necessary to make sure my BOYFRIEND enjoyed his stay on his BIRTHDAY!!! The hotel is directly across from the harbor so everything was conveniently close!!! The room was GORGEOUS the VIEW was MAGNIFICENT!!!

5 stars here. Not the greatest hotel you will stay in but 5 stars because it hits on all the major points and stands out for 2 major reasons.
Location and design of lobby area.
The hotel is located in the heart of the inner harbor, right across from the aqaurium and connected to a mall.
This lobby was so well designed, hit on every note. Modern sleek furniture, with color schemes and design that are subtle yet pop when you look again.
Took tons of pics of the lobby area. It’s huge, well spread out. Great to have meetings and just gathering if you with a big group.
Service was awesome here from valet to bell service to front desk. Everyone was kind, helpful, just seemed overall to be pleasant.
Stayed in a king size room. Everything was nice here. I won’t say great but nice. Bed was comfy, it wasnt super loud all over the hotel, you can get your sleep in. I woke up at 2 am and there was a huge commotion outside yet the hotel is so quiet you could not even tell.
The price was awesome under 300 a night for king size suite was great. That is a steal, I mean I can’t remember when I stayed in a suite for less than 600.
One thing I guess i did not like about the hotel is the length. Whoever built the hotel or renovated it just kept making it longer and longer. Feels like to get from the elevators to rooms was a block long walk lol.
The service here was phenomenal. From checkin, recommendations, room service, and checkout. Just a plesant experience.
So if you are looking for a hotel in the best part of Baltimore I highly recommend this place

Overall good hotel! I am not sure a regular rate as I had special rate with a conference.
Wifi works well and everyone is friendly here. Room is specious and quite new. I liked Aveda toiletry.
Sunday brunch buffet was great as you can get everything (waffles, fruits, oatmeal, eggs and pastries) including made-​to-​order omelet with crab meat. Fruits included not only cantaloups but also plenty of blueberries, blackberries and strawberries. You can also get cappuccino and nice harbor view.
Executive lounge was also great as they offer great breakfast (including egg white scrambled eggs, boiled eggs), evening snacks (hot food and salad/​cheese snacks) and desserts and non-​alcoholic drinks. Wine/​alcoholic drinks were offered at small price.
One downside is expensive parking but it’s all the same in Inner harbor area. Park in the gallery garage attached to the hotel as this is the best deal for overnight stay. Only weekend is a little cheaper when there is no Raven’s game. No free street parking either.

I have stayed here twice. Once in a normal room and most recently in a very large corner suite, all windows. Dining table for 6. VERY LARGE bathroom. Comfortable beds, as all Marriott’s. Striking view of the harbor and the tall ships. We were pleasantly surprised by the brunch price on Sunday, $ 19.99. The selection was awesome, fresh, even fruit smoothies and a made to order omelet station. Parking right underneath the building. Only issue with the all windows room in August was the AC couldn’t keep up and the room was a tad warm, but we were leaving for a day and night on the town anyways.

Great location, great hotel. Front desk staff and bellmen are just fantastic! Anticipating your needs well before you even know you need something. If you are coming to the harbor area of Baltimore, this is the place to stay.

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The traditional Chinese tea ceremony was understaffed (actually, no staff helped us) in a room that was way too small for the occasion. Maybe nobody in this area of the country has ever heard of it, but the lack of staff for the tea ceremony was jarring. Thank goodness we stepped up to the task to help my cousin during this important ceremony.
Other things appear to be overpriced — parking is ridiculous, thank God we were smart enough to park elsewhere. WiFi was not free except within the area of the lobby.
Food: extremely salty — the soup was just a ball of salt. The steak was overdone, the fish was better, but still, quite salty. The chocolate dessert cake was great!
Service: people were relatively responsive during dinner!
Décor: beautiful view.

Terrible! STAY AWAY!!! That is my one word sum up. $ 30 for parking! What an outrage. Even the lot across the street is $ 10 all day. $ 13 for Internet access! News flash, most places, including the park down the street from this hotel, have free internet. And now for the details of the room: dirty, outdated, health hazard, dangerous, disgusting. In short think «a pig wearing lipstick». And at a total base room with no extra room service charges, just room and tax and parking, of $ 306.05 it’s a complete rip off. Please take the time to look at all my photos. In particular the one that shows a sharp nail, from what looks like carpet tack strip, sticking out of floor that all four members of my family had stuck in our foot!!!

We loved 99% of our stay here.
The lobby is gorgeous, with a Starbucks and a connection to a shopping mall.
There is an elevated walkway to the Inner Harbor and all of it’s attractions. The proximity to the Inner Harbor is a huge plus.
Our hotel room was spacious, with great AC, huge television, and a roomy bathroom. The shower worked great– good pressure and temp.
The concierge louge was a nice perk, with a terrific breakfast, plus snacks and beverages. It was a great place to relax.
The three buffet breakfasts for our convention were all very good, a mix of cereal, pastries, pancakes, eggs, egg whites, sausage, turkey bacon, grits, and oatmeal. Not everything every day, but a changing mix.
Our convention had 2 sit-​down meals here, and this is the only area I had an issue with. The pork tenderloin served at lunch was not very good, it was very hard to cut and tough to eat. This wasn’t just my reaction, it was a common complaint among our group.
Secondly, we were served the identical dessert twice (a very good cheesecake) — but it’s a curious observation since we only had two sit down meals here.
But overall, this was a terrific stay.

Great, convenient location in the Inner Harbor with nicely furnished rooms and well-​appointed common areas. However, the layout of the hotel leaves something to be desired. There’s only one bank of elevators, so if you have the misfortune of being placed in a room away from them (as I did), you better be prepared for a haul to get to your room.
My main issue with this hotel is that they charge for wifi. At a hotel of this caliber and price point, charging for wifi is ridiculous. Even low-​end lodging establishments offer free wifi.

Awesome hotel for a 2 night stay right after New years eve. I think this was the quiet season since the prices were amazing! I reserved a King room for $ 99/​night and ended up with a sweet upgrade to King corner suite with a view of the harbor. The room was huge! There was a dining room table and large seating area with couch and chairs and coffee table. This was perfect for having a few friends who live in Baltimore area hang out with us in the room.
This is a very kid friendly hotel. Attendants were welcoming to my 20 month old toddler and the bellhop brought out a wagon of plush animals for her to pick from when we arrived. I requested a pack and play for our room which also included a johnson& johnson baby anenities kit for our daughter. These little touches definitely add a lot to our overall experience of a hotel.
I signed up for loyalty membership just before booking and it certainly helped! We even got access to the club lounge which offered a good continental breakfast that included HOT eggs. The attendants were very cheerful and accommodating. There was a very nice selection of food esp considering it was complimentary! And they even had high chairs. Most exec lounges are adults only so i was really happy we were able to bring our toddler and eat together.
The hotel is connected to the galleria mall which made it convenient for shopping and has food court. It’s right across the street from tourist attractions and close to the Aquariam and the Port of Discover which was on our itinerary for our trip.
They also have a nice size indoor pool and jacuzzi which we took advantage of in the late afternoon after we got tired of walking around.
My one negative was the bed was not totally comfortable. I couldn’t figure out why there were so many layers of flat sheets and there was a crinkly noisy plastic somewhere buried under the layers which might have been a waterproof sheet since we were with a toddler.
Overall really great service and quality hotel.

I stayed here twice in the last month this a great hotel and close to almost everything you need. I would recommend this place to anybody and great service.

Beautiful place! I attended a couple of events here and both were fantastic. Not sure if the food and drinks was catered by the hotel itself but it was great. Music and dance were a lot of fun.

I stayed at the Renaissance for two nights while attending a business conference. The staff was very pleasant, and the room had all of the standard amenities typical of a hotel in that area in that price range. What I found notable is the fantastic location, the mall that is attached to the hotel, and (surprisingly) the food.
The Renaissance is located directly across the street from the harbor (as the name suggests), and a block or two from the baseball stadium. It’s also in walking distance of the national aquarium, African American history museum, restaurants, a movie theater, and I’m sure many other attractions; however I can only speak to what I was able to cram in between conference sessions. The mall seems more than adequate, but I was never able to make it past the main floor which has stores that I frequent (if only to window shop).
I say that the food was ‘surprisingly’ good because in my experience — even at expensive hotels — hotel food can often be just «good enough» or unremarkable at best. The roasted skin-​on bone-​in quarter chicken with vegetables was anything but dry or devoid of taste, as was the filet of fish served with a lemon butter cream sauce on a bed of orzo. Given there are several comparable restaurants within walking distance to include McCormick and Schmick, even if my meal expenses were not covered, I would have no problem indulging in the luxury of convenience and dining in the hotel restaurant or ordering room service rather than hitting the streets for similar American fare.

Best location if you plan to stay in the inner harbor area.
The breakfast buffet has a great view of the harbor.
Get a room with the harbor view if you could, I got mine through the free upgrade.
Also got my free wifi with my gold member status. It’s a great deal.
A perfect hotel to explore the Baltimore area.

We stayed for one night over Easter weekend; there’s really nothing remarkable to say about it. The staff was as courteous as you’d expect at a hotel; the concierge greeted us and the bellhops courteously opened doors.
The elevator traffic was a mess; we think this was because all the elevators, including one of the only ones to the parking garage, were all in one little hallway. This caused traffic jams and sometimes people were so desperate to get in an elevator that they wouldn’t let you out.
Be sure to take the hotel up on their parking offer — the $ 30 they will charge you is better than the $ 52 we ended up paying for parking about 24 hours.
We paid about $ 200 for a Saturday night (all taxes and fees included). The room was clean, no extras or anything special. There seemed to be a wifi fee so we didn’t use it. We declined the extra $ 50 for a ‘harbor view’ and got the ‘city view’ with another building in front of us and an alley below. The walls were paper thin inside the room and out — I could hear people sneeze in their rooms while walking down the hallway. My husband remarked that the pillows were ‘the little crappy ones’.
We had enough to do that we didn’t spend much time in there anyway.

Came out to Baltimore on business this week and had a pretty great time staying in the whole time the «Snocalypse» was supposed to blow through.
I rate hotels on a number of standard items (please see below!):
Cleanliness/​Service — The hotel was pretty nice and cleanliness was top-notch.especially for a luxury hotel, you would expect it to be nice and clean. Service didn’t blow me out of the water though. when I checked in and walking through the hallways, no one was exceptionally nice — they did provide me with a general sense of comfort though.
Layout — This is probably my biggest gripe about this hotel. The layout doesn’t effing make sense! Its because there is one set of elevators in one corner, and the rooms wrap around a huge (empty) middle square so if you are *lucky* enough to land yourself a room at the far corner from the elevators, such as yours truly, it takes friggin’ foreverrrrr to get from one end to the other. This clearly was not thought out… *shakes head*
Lounge — The concierge lounge was pretty spacious. definitely props for having full size bottles of water. Marriott chains usually have those small bottles of water that you have to take 2 – 3 of. so definitely liked that. Breakfast in the morning was exactly the same for the 2 nights I was here, dinner/​desserts were different. The food was good. the cake was really good for dessert. lol. of course, i would like the cake though.
Fitness Center — Really impressed with the fitness center. It’s not HUGE, but it is well equipped enough to accommodate the morning workout crowd! LOTS of treadmills. and it now faces a Shake Shack… which is kind of cruel. *sad face*.
Overall, I enjoyed my stay at the Renaissance Hotel and it is a really nice, clean hotel. Next to a Starbucks and only 20 min from BWI airport in downtown.
As a side note, that the common areas here are COLD in the winter. including the conference rooms. so bundle up if you are just here for a meeting/​conference/​luncheon.

Not a bad deal at $ 70 on Priceline. Cha Ching!
This is located directly across from the Harbor (hello Phillips!) and has a self park garage that is $ 12 less expensive than valet.
Hotel is one of the nicer places I have stayed while in Baltimore for Baseball or visiting the Aquarium. It is walking distance to Camden Yards and the convention center.
They have free fruit infused water for your hangover. There is a Starbucks inside the hotel. The room was very spacious and larger than some of my friends manhattan apartments. The bed was just the right level of firmness.
Cons: elevators are confusing. There are two sets and one takes you to the parking garage the others take you to the rooms. They are not clearly marked.
–valets wouldn’t let me leave my car to check in/​use the bathroom. I am not going to state what I did, but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
–parking garage is confusing to navigate.
Great hotel. Would stay again.