Where to Stay in Allentown, PA: Hotels by Area

Quick answer: For a night at PPL Center, start with Renaissance Allentown Hotel at 12 North 7th Street, Allentown, PA 18101. The hotel’s own page says the building is attached to the arena. For a flight at Lehigh Valley International Airport, the Airport Road pair is Hilton Garden Inn at 1787-B Airport Road and Staybridge Suites at 1787a Airport Road, both in Allentown, PA 18109. For Dorney Park, Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, or an I-78 west-end room with an indoor pool, use the Hamilton Boulevard, Tilghman Street, and Route 100 hotels below. Every address was re-read on the hotel’s official site on October 27, 2026. Driving miles were measured the same day. This is a stay guide grouped by area, not a ranked “best hotel” list.

Guest scores are copied only where the brand page showed a score and a review count on October 27, 2026. Marriott’s Allentown hotels page and Hilton’s hotel pages are different review pools, and three IHG pages showed no guest score at all. Those numbers are not mixed into one weighted order. Where a page showed a per-night dollar figure, it is quoted with the check date. Where it did not, the entry says the source shows no fixed rate.

Dinner and the arena details live on other pages: Allentown restaurants, the PPL Center guide, and things to do in Allentown. A night on the Bethlehem side of the Valley, including Historic Hotel Bethlehem on Main Street, is the Bethlehem hotels guide. The city index is Best of Allentown.

Best areas to stay in Allentown

Allentown hotel searches split into three drives, not one downtown grid. The arena, Hamilton Street, and the arts stops are downtown. Lehigh Valley International Airport, called ABE on the airport’s own site, sits north of the city on Airport Road. Dorney Park, Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, and the I-78 / Route 100 warehouses are on the west side. A hotel that is right for a 7 p.m. show is the wrong hotel for a 6 a.m. flight if you do not want a bridge-and-highway morning.

Downtown, at PPL Center. Renaissance Allentown Hotel and Moxy Allentown Downtown are the two downtown addresses on this list. Both are on or just off Hamilton Street in ZIP 18101. The Renaissance page says the building is attached to PPL Center and a short walk from the Allentown Art Museum. Moxy is at 949 W. Hamilton Street, a measured 7-minute walk to the arena pin. Neither page lists a pool. Both charge for parking. If the plan is a Phantoms game, a concert, or dinner on Hamilton Street, this is the pair. Our PPL Center guide covers bags, garages, and the restaurants already in this directory.

Airport Road and Route 22, near ABE. Hilton Garden Inn Allentown Bethlehem Airport and Staybridge Suites Allentown Bethlehem Airport share the 1787 Airport Road campus in ZIP 18109. Hilton lists an indoor pool, a complimentary airport shuttle, and an on-site restaurant. Staybridge lists kitchens, free breakfast, free parking, and a seasonal outdoor pool, and its overview describes a 24-hour complimentary airport shuttle. Measured drives to the airport pin at 3311 Airport Road are about 2 miles and about 6 minutes for both, which is longer than the mileage printed on the hotel pages. Read that gap in the airport section before you treat “0.25 miles” or “less than one mile” as the drive to the terminal door. These are car hotels. The measured walk from the Hilton Garden Inn to PPL Center is 4.07 miles, about 87 minutes.

West end, Hamilton Boulevard, Tilghman Street, and I-78. Four Points by Sheraton is at 3712 Hamilton Boulevard, the closest hotel on this list to both Dorney Park and Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Allentown West is at 5630 Tilghman Street. TownePlace Suites is at 5828 Memorial Road, a few blocks from that Tilghman hotel. Homewood Suites is at 7686 Industrial Boulevard on Route 100. Staybridge Suites Allentown West is at 327 Star Road, and its own page says the hotel is off I-78 and Route 100. All five list an indoor pool. The three suite hotels, TownePlace, Homewood, and Staybridge West, list kitchens. None of these is a walk to Hamilton Street. The shortest west-end drive to PPL Center on this list is Four Points, 3.71 miles, about 8 minutes. The longest is Staybridge West, 9.55 miles, about 17 minutes.

The hotels

Distances were measured on October 27, 2026 with the public car router and foot router at routing.openstreetmap.de. The PPL Center endpoint is the OpenStreetMap stadium pin at 701 West Hamilton Street. The airport endpoint is the OpenStreetMap point for Lehigh Valley International Airport at 3311 Airport Road, the address printed on flyabe.com. The hospital endpoint is the U.S. Census Bureau address point for 1200 South Cedar Crest Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18103, the street address on the LVHN Cedar Crest page. The Dorney Park endpoint is the Census address point for 4000 Dorney Park Road, the address on the park’s directions page. Minutes are that router’s travel time. A festival street closure will change the downtown numbers.

Hotel	Area	Drive to PPL Center	Drive to ABE	Indoor pool
Renaissance Allentown Hotel	Downtown, 12 North 7th Street	0.62 mi, 2 min	4.74 mi, 11 min	Not listed
Moxy Allentown Downtown	Downtown, 949 W. Hamilton Street	0.33 mi, 1 min	5.07 mi, 11 min	Not listed
Hilton Garden Inn Airport	1787-B Airport Road	4.18 mi, 9 min	2.01 mi, 6 min	Yes
Staybridge Suites Airport	1787a Airport Road	4.22 mi, 9 min	2.14 mi, 6 min	Outdoor, seasonal
Four Points Allentown Lehigh Valley	3712 Hamilton Boulevard	3.71 mi, 8 min	8.45 mi, 18 min	Yes
Holiday Inn Express Allentown West	5630 Tilghman Street	7.02 mi, 13 min	11.14 mi, 19 min	Yes, heated
TownePlace Suites Allentown West	5828 Memorial Road	7.03 mi, 13 min	11.15 mi, 19 min	Yes
Homewood Suites Allentown-West	7686 Industrial Boulevard	8.94 mi, 16 min	14.35 mi, 24 min	Yes
Staybridge Suites Allentown West	327 Star Road	9.55 mi, 17 min	13.50 mi, 23 min	Yes

The Renaissance car route is longer than Moxy’s even though the Renaissance building is the one attached to the arena. The foot router returned 0.00 miles between the Renaissance pin and the PPL Center pin. The 0.62-mile drive is the one-way street loop the car router returned, not a walk around the block. Use the hotel’s “attached” sentence, and the 0.00-mile foot result, for the arena door. Use 0.62 miles only as the driving figure.

Renaissance Allentown Hotel

12 North 7th Street, Allentown, PA 18101. Downtown. Marriott’s overview, checked October 27, 2026, gives that address and says the historic building is attached to PPL Center, with the Allentown Art Museum nearby. Check-in is 4:00 p.m. Check-out is 11:00 a.m. The minimum age to check in is 21. The property is smoke-free. The same page lists one dog, 50 pounds or less, at a non-refundable fee of $75 per night, and service animals without a fee. On-site self-parking is $16 a day. Valet is $25 a day, and the page says valet runs 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. There is no shuttle. Marriott’s getting-here line says Lehigh Valley International Airport is 5.4 miles away. Our measured drive to 3311 Airport Road is 4.74 miles, about 11 minutes. The page says the hotel does not have electric-vehicle charging.

Amenities copied from that overview: a restaurant on site, The Dime, which the page describes as breakfast and farm-to-table lunch and dinner; a complimentary fitness center; meeting space; daily housekeeping; a 24-hour front desk; elevators; and luggage storage. The overview says the hotel has 14,070 square feet of flexible event space in 18 venues. The events page checked the same day says 14,070 square feet across 11 event rooms. Both sentences are on Marriott. Wi-Fi is described three ways on the overview: the introduction says complimentary Wi-Fi, the amenity line says free for Marriott Bonvoy members, and the FAQ says Bonvoy members receive complimentary in-room internet when they book direct. The overview does not list a pool or free breakfast. The Dime is a restaurant, not a statement that breakfast is included.

Marriott’s Allentown hotels page, checked October 27, 2026, showed a guest score of 4.3 from 911 reviews and printed 153 USD / night with no stay dates beside the figure. That is the only dollar rate stored for this hotel. The overview itself did not show a fixed nightly rate. The same Allentown page calls the hotel fully renovated and says it is 0.1 miles from Marriott’s destination point. That 0.1 miles is Marriott’s figure, not our drive to a named door. Book on the Renaissance overview.

Moxy Allentown Downtown

949 W. Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA 18101. Downtown, west of the arena along Hamilton Street. Marriott’s Moxy overview, checked October 27, 2026, uses that address. Check-in is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 12:00 p.m. The minimum age to check in is 21. The property is smoke-free. Pets are welcome: up to 2, 70 pounds each, at a non-refundable fee of $50 per night. Parking on the page is off-site, with the Maple Street Deck listed at 0.2 miles, and valet at $25 a day. The FAQ calls it off-site valet parking at that $25 daily fee. There is no shuttle. Marriott says ABE is 5.6 miles away. Our measured drive is 5.07 miles, about 11 minutes. The measured walk to PPL Center is 0.34 miles, about 7 minutes.

The overview lists a restaurant, Okatshe, which the page calls a modern izakaya and sushi restaurant, and The NOW Bar for cocktails, local beer, and shareable bites. It also lists a complimentary fitness center, a business center, free coffee and tea in the lobby, housekeeping every other day, and a 24-hour front desk. The FAQ says the hotel does not offer free breakfast and does not offer room service. The introduction says “lightning-fast Wi-Fi.” The amenity line says complimentary Wi-Fi free for Marriott Bonvoy members, and the FAQ says members receive complimentary in-room internet when they book direct. No pool is listed. The page does not list electric-vehicle charging.

Marriott’s Allentown hotels page showed 3.8 from 140 reviews and 103 USD / night, again with no stay dates beside the figure. The overview did not show a fixed nightly rate. 103 USD is the priceRange stored for this hotel. Use the Moxy overview.

Hilton Garden Inn Allentown Bethlehem Airport

1787-B Airport Road, Allentown, PA 18109. Airport Road, south of the terminal. Hilton’s hotel page and the hotel-info page, both checked October 27, 2026, use that address. Check-in is 3 p.m. Check-out is 12 p.m. Hilton’s page showed a guest rating of 4.2 from 837 reviews. The page text we retrieved, with October 27–28, 2026 on the date picker, did not include a nightly dollar rate. There is no priceRange in the schema for that reason. The source shows no fixed rate.

Amenities on Hilton’s page: free Wi-Fi, an on-site restaurant, an indoor pool, a hot tub, a fitness center, a complimentary airport shuttle, a business center, pet-friendly rooms, connecting rooms, cribs, and meeting rooms. The Garden Grille & Bar description says breakfast and dinner, with pancakes, waffles, and made-to-order omelets in the morning and a cooked-to-order dinner with a bar in the evening. A separate line says the 24-hour Pavilion Pantry has snacks and ready-to-cook meals. Self-parking is on-site and complimentary. Valet is not available. Children 17 and under stay free in existing bedding with a parent or guardian. The pet block says $75 for a stay of 1 to 5 nights and $125 for 5 or more nights, two pets maximum. A deposit line on the same page also shows $125. A smoking fee of up to $250 plus tax is listed for smoking in a non-smoking room.

Hilton’s location block says Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport is 0.25 miles away and that the airport shuttle is available and complimentary. Our measured drive from the OpenStreetMap building pin for the Hilton Garden Inn at 1787 Airport Road to the airport pin at 3311 Airport Road is 2.01 miles, about 6 minutes. The measured walk is the same 2.01 miles, about 43 minutes. Both figures are on this page because they do not match. The 0.25 miles is Hilton’s sentence. The 2.01 miles is the road route to the airport address. The drive to PPL Center is 4.18 miles, about 9 minutes. The drive to the Cedar Crest hospital address point is 8.30 miles, about 15 minutes. Choose this hotel for a flight, a pool, and a restaurant on site, and confirm the shuttle when you book.

Staybridge Suites Allentown Bethlehem Airport

1787a Airport Road, Allentown, PA 18109. The same Airport Road campus as the Hilton Garden Inn, in the next building. IHG’s Staybridge page, checked October 27, 2026, uses that address. Check-in is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 12:00 p.m. The minimum check-in age on the page is 18. The page does not show a guest score. It says prices reflect an average per night and does not print a dollar figure in the text we saved. The source shows no fixed rate.

The overview says each suite has a fully equipped kitchen, with free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, free parking, an evening social, a 24-hour fitness center, and free guest laundry. Breakfast hours in the main block are 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. The FAQ repeats the weekend window of 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A highlight on the same page says Saturday and Sunday breakfast is 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. The page disagrees with itself. Call before you count on a 7:00 a.m. plate. The evening social is listed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The pool line says a seasonal outdoor heated pool, open Memorial Day through Labor Day, daily 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. during those dates. The FAQ says the hotel has an outdoor pool. It is not an indoor pool. Pets: dogs only, maximum weight 80 pounds, two pets maximum, non-refundable fee of 100 USD. The FAQ says there is no on-site restaurant.

Two shuttle sentences on the same page are not the same offer. The overview says the hotel is less than one mile from ABE and describes a 24-hour complimentary airport shuttle. The FAQ says there is not a complimentary local-area shuttle. Our measured drive to 3311 Airport Road is 2.14 miles, about 6 minutes. The walk is 2.04 miles, about 44 minutes. The drive to PPL Center is 4.22 miles, about 9 minutes. Use this hotel for a kitchen, free breakfast, and free parking next to the airport, and ask which shuttle is actually running on your date. The front desk number on the page is +1 610-443-5000.

Hotels with an indoor pool

The indoor-pool list is the six hotels whose official pages say “indoor pool,” checked October 27, 2026. Downtown is not on it. Renaissance and Moxy do not list a pool. The Airport Road Staybridge lists an outdoor pool with a summer season, so it is not on this list either.

• Hilton Garden Inn Allentown Bethlehem Airport, 1787-B Airport Road. Indoor pool and a hot tub, plus the airport shuttle and the restaurant above.
• Four Points by Sheraton Allentown Lehigh Valley, 3712 Hamilton Boulevard. The amenity list says indoor pool, complimentary. The closest pool on this page to Dorney Park and to Cedar Crest hospital.
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Allentown West, 5630 Tilghman Street. One heated indoor pool. The FAQ says hours are 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• TownePlace Suites by Marriott Allentown West, 5828 Memorial Road. Indoor pool, complimentary, in an extended-stay hotel with kitchens.
• Homewood Suites by Hilton Allentown-West/Fogelsville, 7686 Industrial Boulevard. Indoor pool, free hot breakfast, and full kitchens.
• Staybridge Suites Allentown West, 327 Star Road. The FAQ says the hotel has an indoor pool, and a highlight on the page says the indoor pool is open in all seasons.

A pool on the amenity list is not a published lap schedule, except where the page printed hours. Holiday Inn Express is the one that printed hours. The others did not, on the pages we read. If you need the pool open before a shift, call that hotel.

Four Points by Sheraton Allentown Lehigh Valley

3712 Hamilton Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18103. Hamilton Boulevard, in the Dorneyville stretch between downtown and the west-end interchanges. Marriott’s Four Points overview, checked October 27, 2026, uses that address and says the hotel is near Lehigh Valley Hospital, Muhlenberg College, Cedar Crest College, and the airport. Check-in is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 11:00 a.m. Minimum age to check in is 21. Pets are not allowed. On-site self-parking is complimentary. There is no shuttle. The page lists an alternate airport car, reservation required, at 25 USD one way, phone +1 610-432-2000. Marriott says ABE is 11.5 miles away. Our measured drive is 8.45 miles, about 18 minutes.

Amenities from the overview: indoor pool, complimentary; a 24-hour fitness center; on-site laundry; a restaurant, Linx, which the page says serves breakfast, dinner, and evening cocktails; a business center; and housekeeping every other day. The FAQ says the hotel does not offer free breakfast. Wi-Fi follows the same Marriott split as the downtown hotels: the introduction says complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi, the amenity line says free for Bonvoy members, and the FAQ says members get complimentary in-room internet when they book direct. No electric-vehicle charging is listed.

Measured drives on October 27, 2026: 1.48 miles, about 3 minutes, to the Cedar Crest hospital address point, and 0.87 miles, about 4 minutes, to 4000 Dorney Park Road. The walk to Dorney is 0.75 miles, about 16 minutes. The walk to the hospital address point is 2.75 miles, about 59 minutes, so the hospital is a short drive and not a short walk. The drive to PPL Center is 3.71 miles, about 8 minutes. Marriott’s Allentown hotels page showed 3.8 from 446 reviews and 113 USD / night with no stay dates beside it. The overview did not show a fixed nightly rate. 113 USD is the priceRange stored here. This is the hotel on this list for a Cedar Crest shift or a Dorney day, if you do not need a kitchen or a pet room.

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Allentown West

5630 Tilghman Street, Allentown, PA 18104. West Allentown. IHG’s Holiday Inn Express page, checked October 27, 2026, uses that address. The page says the hotel is near Lehigh Valley Hospital, Dorney Park, and employers along the west end, and it says the airport is about 10 miles away in one sentence and about 9 miles (14.48 kilometers) in the FAQ. Check-in is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 11:00 a.m. Minimum check-in age is 21. Pets are not allowed. Parking is complimentary, on site, in front of the hotel, for registered guests. The page says no on-site restaurant and no complimentary local-area shuttle. No guest score was on the page. No dollar rate was in the text we saved. The source shows no fixed rate.

The page lists a complimentary Express Start hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour fitness center, and one heated indoor pool open 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The FAQ says breakfast is 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and does not print a separate weekend window. Guest rooms are described with a microwave, a refrigerator, and a Keurig. The page also mentions suites and 725 square feet of meeting space. It tells you to contact the hotel for early check-in or late check-out. It does not publish an early check-in time.

Our measured drive to 3311 Airport Road is 11.14 miles, about 19 minutes, longer than the hotel’s “about 9 miles.” The measured drive to 4000 Dorney Park Road is 4.99 miles, about 11 minutes. The hotel’s own attractions line says Dorney Park is 4 miles away. The drive to the Cedar Crest hospital point is 4.73 miles, about 8 minutes. The drive to PPL Center is 7.02 miles, about 13 minutes. Choose this hotel for the heated indoor pool, free breakfast, and a Tilghman Street address, and do not plan on a pet or a walk to the arena.

Extended stay near Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest

Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest’s own page, checked October 27, 2026, lists 1200 South Cedar Crest Blvd, Allentown, PA 18103, open 24 hours, phone 610-402-8000. The directions on that page send drivers to the Cedar Crest Boulevard exit of Route 309 / I-78. None of the hotels below is on the hospital campus. The useful question for a traveling nurse or a family staying through a long admission is which official page lists a kitchen, and how long the measured drive is.

Four Points is the short drive, 1.48 miles and about 3 minutes, and its page names the hospital. It does not list a kitchen or free breakfast, and pets are not allowed. For a week or a month, the kitchen hotels are TownePlace Suites, Homewood Suites, Staybridge Suites Allentown West, and Staybridge Suites at the airport. The airport Staybridge is 8.34 miles from the hospital point, about 16 minutes, so it is the kitchen hotel for a flight, not the kitchen hotel for Cedar Crest. TownePlace is the kitchen hotel with the shorter hospital drive among the extended-stay names: 4.75 miles, about 8 minutes.

Early check-in is the other nurse question, and the official pages do not promise it. Renaissance check-in is 4:00 p.m. Moxy, the Hilton Garden Inn, both Staybridge hotels, Four Points, Holiday Inn Express, TownePlace, and Homewood all list 3:00 p.m. or 3 p.m. The Staybridge FAQ and the Holiday Inn Express FAQ say to contact the hotel about early check-in or late check-out. They do not list a fee or a guaranteed morning time. If the shift starts before the published check-in, the page you can stand on is a phone call, not a sentence on this guide.

TownePlace Suites by Marriott Allentown West

5828 Memorial Road, Allentown, PA 18104. West Allentown, near the Tilghman Street hotels. Marriott’s TownePlace overview, checked October 27, 2026, uses that address and describes an extended-stay hotel with a fully equipped kitchen. Check-in is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 11:00 a.m. Minimum age is 21. Pets: up to 2, 50 pounds each, non-refundable fee of $100 per stay. On-site self-parking is complimentary. There is no shuttle. Marriott says ABE is 10.0 miles away. Our measured drive is 11.15 miles, about 19 minutes. Housekeeping is every other day.

The amenity list says indoor pool, complimentary; fitness center; on-site laundry; business center; and free buffet and hot breakfast every day, Monday through Sunday, 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. The FAQ repeats free hot breakfast in that same window. Wi-Fi is the Marriott split again: the introduction says high-speed internet, the amenity line says free for Bonvoy members, and the FAQ says members receive complimentary in-room internet when they book direct. No electric-vehicle charging is listed.

Measured drives: Cedar Crest hospital point 4.75 miles, about 8 minutes; Dorney Park address point 5.00 miles, about 11 minutes; PPL Center 7.03 miles, about 13 minutes. OpenStreetMap’s building labeled TownePlace Suites is tagged 5885 Memorial Road, not 5828. Routes from that building pin are about 0.02 miles longer than the routes from the Census point for 5828 Memorial Road, which is the official address. The miles in the table use 5828. Marriott’s Allentown hotels page showed 4.2 from 75 reviews and 132 USD / night with no stay dates beside the figure. The overview did not show a fixed nightly rate. This is the extended-stay pick when the week is Cedar Crest or the west end and you want breakfast and a kitchen in Allentown rather than at the airport.

Homewood Suites by Hilton Allentown-West/Fogelsville, PA

7686 Industrial Boulevard, Allentown, PA 18106. The Hilton page prints the address as 7686 Industrial Blvd Route 100. Hilton’s Homewood page, checked October 27, 2026, showed a guest rating of 4.2 from 894 reviews. Check-in is 3 p.m. Check-out is 11 a.m. The retrieved text, with October 27–28, 2026 on the date picker, did not include a nightly dollar rate. The source shows no fixed rate. Hilton says an airport shuttle is not available, and it lists Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport at 15 miles. Our measured drive is 14.35 miles, about 24 minutes.

Amenities on the page: free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, non-smoking rooms, an indoor pool, a fitness center, pet-friendly rooms, a business center, connecting rooms, digital key, extended stay, in-room kitchens, cribs, and a playground. Self-parking is on-site at $4.95 per day, with in-and-out privileges. The pet policy says $75 for a 1-to-4-night stay and $125 for five or more nights, two pets maximum, dog or cat only. A shorter deposit line on the same page says a $75 non-refundable fee. The longer line is the one that names the five-night step-up.

Hilton says the hotel is 10 minutes from Dorney Park and lists Dorney Park at 6 miles. Our measured drive to 4000 Dorney Park Road is 6.10 miles, about 12 minutes. Hilton also says Da Vinci Science Center, Miller Symphony Hall, Bear Creek, and Coca-Cola Park are within 12 miles. The drive to PPL Center is 8.94 miles, about 16 minutes. The drive to the Cedar Crest hospital point is 5.87 miles, about 11 minutes. The page says the hotel is conveniently located to major highways. It does not print the words “I-78.” The I-78 sentence on this list belongs to Staybridge Suites Allentown West, which says it is off I-78 and Route 100. Homewood is the Route 100 kitchen hotel with the indoor pool, the playground, and the $4.95 parking line.

Staybridge Suites Allentown West

327 Star Road, Allentown, PA 18106. IHG’s west Allentown Staybridge page, checked October 27, 2026, says the hotel is off I-78 and Route 100, near Lehigh Valley International Airport, Iron Run, and employers including Nestle and Air Products. Check-in is 3:00 p.m. Check-out is 11:00 a.m. Minimum check-in age is 21. No guest score and no dollar rate were in the text we saved. The source shows no fixed rate. The FAQ says there is no complimentary local-area shuttle and no on-site restaurant. Parking is complimentary.

The page lists free Wi-Fi, a fitness center, free hot breakfast, free laundry 24 hours, a pantry snack shop, and an indoor pool. Breakfast is 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, and the FAQ matches those hours. The evening social conflicts with itself: the amenities block says 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and a highlight says 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. those same days. Pets are dogs only, each under 80 pounds, with a non-refundable fee of $75 for 1 to 6 nights and $150 for 7 or more nights. A pet agreement is signed at check-in. A highlight says the indoor pool is for all seasons.

Measured drives: PPL Center 9.55 miles, about 17 minutes; ABE 13.50 miles, about 23 minutes; Cedar Crest hospital point 6.45 miles, about 11 minutes; Dorney Park address point 6.71 miles, about 13 minutes. This is the hotel whose own page places it off I-78, with an indoor pool and a kitchen-style suite stay. It is the long drive back to the arena. The front desk number on the page is +1 610-841-5100.

Staying for Lights in the Parkway, PPL Center, and the Christmas season

Lights in the Parkway is a different night from a PPL Center show. The City of Allentown event page, checked October 27, 2026, says the 30th annual display runs November 27, 2026, through January 6, 2027, in Lehigh Parkway, and that it is closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. The city page says the display covers more than a mile and uses a quarter-million lights. It does not print a vehicle price. It lists Monday walk, run, or bike nights from 5:30 to 10:00, with no reservation required: November 30, December 7, December 14, December 21, December 28, and January 4.

Discover Lehigh Valley’s event page, checked the same day, puts the display at 1700 Martin Luther King Blvd., Allentown, PA 18103, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. on those season dates, with the same four closure nights. It says advance tickets are required, online only, with no cash or credit sales on site: $16 per car for up to 8 people, and $26 for a commercial van, limo, or minibus under 14 feet. One sentence on that page says Move it Mondays start December 30. The same page then lists Monday nights beginning November 30, which matches the city page and not the December 30 sentence. Use the city list for the Monday dates. Use Discover Lehigh Valley for the $16 and $26 prices. Our Lights in the Parkway guide is the longer local write-up. We did not measure a drive from each hotel to a parkway entrance. The city page describes more than a mile of display inside the park and does not give turn-by-turn entrance directions.

For a lights night plus a downtown morning, the two Hamilton Street hotels are the ones you can walk from. Renaissance is the attached arena hotel. Moxy is the 7-minute walk. Both are about an 11-minute measured drive from the airport and a separate drive out to Lehigh Parkway, which we are not quoting as a minute count. For a lights night plus Dorney or the hospital the next morning, Four Points is the short west-side drive. For a lights night plus a kitchen, TownePlace, Homewood, and Staybridge West are the west-end suite hotels, at measured drives of 7 to 9.5 miles back to PPL Center if the other half of the trip is a show.

PPL Center itself stays on the arena’s site and in our PPL Center guide. This page does not reprint the bag rules. If the ticket is a Phantoms game or a concert, stay downtown unless the rate pushes you out Airport Road or to Tilghman Street. A 9-minute drive from the Hilton Garden Inn is a real drive after a late faceoff, not a walk. The same is true of a 17-minute drive from Star Road.

The other large holiday-light event in the Valley this season is not in Allentown. The Lehigh Valley Zoo Winter Light Spectacular is in Schnecksville. It is a walk-through with its own ticket table. It is not a second night of Lights in the Parkway. If the trip is a summer ballgame instead of a winter light show, the IronPigs tickets guide covers Coca-Cola Park. Hilton’s Homewood page and Staybridge’s airport page both mention that ballpark. We did not re-measure those drives for this page.

How to pick an Allentown hotel

Match the first appointment, then read the rate for your dates. The dollar figures below are what Marriott’s Allentown hotels page printed on October 27, 2026, with no stay dates beside them. They are not a rate we held.

• The night is PPL Center. Renaissance Allentown Hotel, 12 North 7th Street. The hotel says the building is attached to the arena. Renaissance overview.
• You want downtown, a later checkout, and a 7-minute walk. Moxy Allentown Downtown, 949 W. Hamilton Street. Check-out is 12:00 p.m. No free breakfast. Moxy overview.
• The morning is a flight, and you want a pool and a restaurant. Hilton Garden Inn, 1787-B Airport Road. Indoor pool, complimentary shuttle on Hilton’s page, measured drive 2.01 miles to 3311 Airport Road. Hilton Garden Inn.
• The morning is a flight, and you want a kitchen and free breakfast. Staybridge Suites, 1787a Airport Road. Outdoor pool in season, not indoor. Ask which shuttle is running. Staybridge at the airport.
• The reason is Cedar Crest hospital or Dorney Park. Four Points, 3712 Hamilton Boulevard. 1.48 miles to the hospital point, 0.87 miles to 4000 Dorney Park Road. No pets. Four Points overview.
• You want a heated indoor pool and free breakfast on Tilghman Street. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Allentown West, 5630 Tilghman Street. No pets. Holiday Inn Express.
• The stay is longer than a night and the hospital is the point. TownePlace Suites, 5828 Memorial Road. Kitchens, free breakfast, indoor pool. 4.75 miles to the hospital point. TownePlace overview.
• You want a Route 100 suite with a playground and an indoor pool. Homewood Suites, 7686 Industrial Boulevard. Parking $4.95 a day. Homewood Suites.
• You want the hotel that says it is off I-78. Staybridge Suites Allentown West, 327 Star Road. Indoor pool, breakfast, dogs under the printed weight cap. Staybridge Allentown West.

Guest scores copied on October 27, 2026, each with its own page, were Homewood Suites 4.2 from 894 reviews on Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn 4.2 from 837 reviews on Hilton, Renaissance 4.3 from 911 reviews on Marriott’s Allentown page, Four Points 3.8 from 446 reviews on that same Marriott page, Moxy 3.8 from 140 reviews, and TownePlace 4.2 from 75 reviews. Staybridge Airport, Staybridge West, and Holiday Inn Express did not show a guest score on the pages we read. A 4.2 on Hilton and a 4.3 on Marriott are not one scale we multiplied by review count. That is why the hotels are grouped by area. Downtown first, then Airport Road, then the west end from the hospital and Dorney outward.

What we checked, and what we left out

Official pages re-read on October 27, 2026: Renaissance, abebr overview; Moxy, abexd overview; Hilton Garden Inn, abegigi and its hotel-info page; Staybridge Airport, abeap; Four Points, abefp overview; Holiday Inn Express, abeal; TownePlace, abedt overview; Homewood, abehwhw; Staybridge West, abest. Guest scores and the 153, 103, 113, and 132 USD figures are from Marriott’s Allentown hotels page or from the Hilton hotel page named above, not from a guess. Lights dates are from the city page linked above. The $16 and $26 ticket lines are from Discover Lehigh Valley. The hospital address is from LVHN. The airport street address is from flyabe.com. Dorney’s 4000 Dorney Park Road line is from the park’s directions page. The media page’s 3830 address is why the endpoint is named in the table note.

Courtyard by Marriott Allentown Airport is a real hotel we read and did not put in the distance table. Its overview, checked October 27, 2026, lists 3337 Airport Road, Allentown, PA 18109, check-in 4:00 p.m., check-out 11:00 a.m., pets not allowed, and parking not available. The FAQ says it does not offer free breakfast. Marriott’s Allentown hotels page listed it with no guest score and no USD figure, and it showed 4.5 miles from Marriott’s destination point, which is not a drive to the terminal. OpenStreetMap has no building pin we could tie to that street address, and the Census address point sat far enough from the airport pin that publishing a road distance would have been a guess. The hotel is left out of the mileage table for that reason. It is not a claim that the hotel is closed.