Located between the fast growing communities of Elk Grove and Laguna, south of Sacramento, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Elk Grove offers 116 spacious rooms on 3 floors, a sizeable outdoor pool, newsstand and health/fitness center. Free continental breakfast is served and for other meals there is a wide variety of outlets in the surrounding Laguna Gateway Mall. The hotel is just west of the Laguna Blvd exit of highway 99, surrounded by large areas of parking space.

A new and more modern Holiday Inn Express hotel in Elk Grove opened fall 2009, built right on the west side of town beside I-5 exit 506 (Elk Grove Blvd), 11 miles south of Sacramento. The surroundings are quiet and residential - at the edge of the Lake Point district - though several restaurants are within walking distance. The 3 storey, 65 room/suite Holiday Inn Express serves complimentary hot breakfast buffet each morning, and has leisure facilities of an outdoor pool, hot tub and fitness room. Events of up to 40 guests can be accommodated in the on-site meeting space, complemented by free internet access and a business center.

Four miles north of the center of Elk Grove and 12 miles from downtown Sacramento, the Fairfield Inn is a handsome new building, catering for guests in 62 rooms and 14 suites, all large, clean and well designed, with luxurious touches such as granite surfaces in the bathrooms. The hotel is part of a small complex of restaurants and a few shops on the east side of Highway 99 by the Calvine/Cosumnes River exit, in an otherwise residential area. For relaxation the Fairfield Inn offers an indoor heated salt water pool, hot tub and exercise room.