The Holiday Inn is the main chain hotel in Steamboat Springs, offering clean rooms, reasonable rates, friendly staff and full service amenities. One highlight is the on site restaurant/sports bar - Rex's American Grill - which is open for breakfast, lunch & dinner (plus room service), and serves great food in a lively atmosphere. Leisure amenities are a fitness center and an outdoor pool/hot tub, these two in a small garden area at the rear that also has several bbq grills, and nice views of the surrounding wooded hills. The AAA Three Diamond-rated Holiday Inn is situated in a semi-rural neighborhood 2.5 miles south of the center of Steamboat Springs along US 40, close to many recreation sites in this part of the northern Colorado Rocky Mountains including Stagecoach Lake, Steamboat Lake, Fish Creek Falls and the Yampa River.

Free hot continental breakfast, a welcoming fireplace lobby, friendly staff and affordable rates are the main attractions of Marriott's Fairfield Inn & Suites Steamboat Springs - quite a new, 66 room property located 2.5 miles south of downtown alongside US 40. The surroundings are mostly rural; there is a small lake and a wooded stream just behind the hotel, and all rooms look out over the high mountains which surround the town on most sides. The closest restaurant is right next door in the Holiday Inn, and others can be found a mile north around Central Park Plaza. The hotel also offers an indoor pool, fitness center, business center, and a winter shuttle service to the local ski resort.

Comfort Inn Steamboat Springs faces US 40 on the south side of town, next to a small river (Walton Creek), by the junction with a side road that leads to Steamboat Ski Area one mile east on the slopes of Mount Werner; the hotel operates a free shuttle to the ski center. The downtown area, including the Old Town Hot Springs complex, is 3 miles north. Although quite small (52 rooms), the hotel has a decent range of amenities; free full hot breakfast, an indoor pool & hot tub, microwave/refrigerator in each room, guest laundry and meeting facilities. The closest restaurant is 0.4 miles south in the Holiday Inn.