Hilton Garden Inn

The staff went beyond the call of duty. I stayed the week on business and managed to catch a terrible cold. They guided me to the nearest drug store before one of my meeting. The next day while I was packing my car, the young man at the front desk came outside and handed me some Vitamin C. I can’t recall a random act of kindness like that in quite some time. Thank You!

The Hilton so not worth the money rooms were just ok and they don’t even offer continental breakfast, we have to pay for it and it’s $ 10 a person.

I’ve always enjoyed staying at Garden Inn hotels, and this is no exception. The staff has been excellent so far, and were extremely accommodating to some requests to make our stay more comfortable.
After a week in the hotel, I have nothing bad to say. Everyone we’ve interacted with has been incredibly friendly, helpful, and full of good suggestions for the area. The hotel restaurant isn’t anything really unusual, but everything’s done well and the guys making custom breakfast orders have been eager to please.
If you’re going to be visiting 3M Centre or any of the other businesses in the area, it’s where I’d recommend staying, and where I plan to get a room from here on out.

Very pleasant stay. The staff has been friendly and helpful, my room has been clean, and it looks like they are updating more rooms.

It’s a small world after all… I was booked at this hotel for my training and found out that most everyone is from 3M. Being just 10 minutes from 3M Center, this hotel gets alot of business from our employer. So, you can expect mornings to be busy with everyone trying to squeeze in the deluxe made-​to-​order breakfast with omelets.
ROOM ***
Layout is a bit odd but works. The bathroom door opens to the entry way so this can block your front door. Make sure you have the bathroom door shut tight to prevent it from slipping in front of your entry way. Believe me– it’s a pain in the butt to have the bathroom door block your front door. I soon realized why the back of the front door shows dents where the bathroom door banged into it. The dial mattress requires someone to make the time to understand how it works. I played around for 5 – 10 minutes to find the setting that worked best with me.
PANTRY ****
Our travel admin was able to get all hotel pantry purchases charged to my room. I found a great selection of ice cream as well as lunches. All lunches are boxed with 3 types being replenished– pesto chicken sandwich, spinach salad, and caesar salad. Pretty nice sandwich if a bit on the greasy side. The salads were probably the ones I tended to get for lunch.
EXERCISE ROOM ***
The fitness center has a broken TV (was not addressed over the week I stayed in the hotel) and missing headphones. On the last night, I was given a pair but at least, the individual cardio equipment had screens to watch weather or news without the sound.

SWIMMING POOL AND HOT TUB ****
Rather small so difficult to do laps. However, it is nice to have a pool as well as hot tub to relax. There is a small beach ball with HGI logo. At least, this piqued my interest trying to play water polo with myself. Hey, you got a pool and decent sized exercise room so can’t complain.
RESTAURANT ****
There is a daily special which has main dish with side dish. I absolutely fell in love with the ribeye steak and tirimisu. Pretty reasonable price but prefer to have opportunity to cook myself rather than eating out each day. Plus, you get additional 500 bonus points when you spend over $ 30 at the restaurant.

typical HGI. reliably clean, comfy, bland.
helpful friendly & attentive staff (gotta love the Midwest). hot breakfast. evening wine. decent gym (for a hotel) & small indoor pool.

Normally our company has only allowed us to stay at two hotels in Stillwater, closer the company; we recently have been allowed to stay at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oakdale. At check-​in I was felt welcomed and the process was quick (including two bottles of water and chocolate chip cookies are always available).
My room was clean and well made up; the second day I was in, I came back to a letter from the manager and an assortments of snacks plus two bottles of water every morning were left for me.
For breakfast (you get vouchers for it) it’s a good standard breakfast, with semi-​served drinks (she gets busy); they do have a great assortment of fruit, and their waffle mix tasted better than others I’ve had.
On one of the mornings there was no hot water, it was barely coming in luke warm, after calling down and being told they would send someone to check on it, the continuously apologised and within 10 minutes it was back and running; I received an email apologising for the incident and had a letter left for me in my room. They handled the situations very well, I understood that things like this happen and it’s all about how the hotel handles it. This definitely is one of the better Hilton Gardens!

Nice HGI in Oakdale. Nice size rooms, nice gym. Breakfast fare same as other HGIs. Nice location near 94 and shops.

Seriously, do not stay in this hotel. They will not honor any requests you may have. Unfortunately I’m staying here tonight and tomorrow, as I’m getting married on Saturday (thankfully actually staying at a nice hotel on that day), and these guys can’t even change the input on the TV to allow me to hook up a DVD player. Seriously? We got over 20+ rooms booked here and they can’t honor that simple request. Also the rooms weren’t even clean and ready by this time 3:15pm. Do not stay at this hotel, they are very disorganized, they also tried to tell us that the rooms were all sold out, when the only people seriously staying here are people going to my wedding. Do NOT stay at this hotel, it is stuck in the 70’s. For this price, you could stay at a way nicer hotel.

Great hotel and great experience! Recently had my entire wedding party and out-​of-​town family stay here for my wedding. Staff was fantastic to work with beforehand when setting up the block of rooms and were always available to answer our questions. The hotel is very nice and the continental breakfast was great.

Disorganized. Doesn’t care about customers. Takes your reservation 1 month in advance. Then bumps you 2 days before you get there. «We’re oversold.» Sends you to a different hotel.

I like the Garden Inns. This one is in a great location close to shopping, restaurants and right of major interstate.
My room was clean, well equipped and above all quite. Thank you.

A very nice new hotel. The staff here is very friendly and very helpful. The rooms are very nice and clean. The beds are very comfortable as well. The only complaint I would have is about the Internet. It seems to be spotty and slow at times.