Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southern Pines-pinehurst Area By IHG
A quiet Southern Pines base with comfortable beds, cinnamon rolls at breakfast, and Dove bath amenities.
The verdict
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This Southern Pines property offers a dependable, quiet base primarily suited for road-trippers and regional golfers visiting Pinehurst. Guests regularly highlight clean rooms, fluffy beds, Dove toiletries, and free morning cinnamon rolls. However, reviewers point out that the hotel is not geared toward travelers who require daily housekeeping or hands-on room management. 325
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What travelers noticed
- Rooms provide comfortable spaces with fluffy beds, cozy chaise lounge chairs, and headboard backlighting that keeps glare off the TV. 5
- Bathrooms come stocked with Dove toiletries including body wash and hand soap, alongside powerful showers and wide-door wheelchair accessibility. 53
- The property sits in a quiet environment a short ten-minute drive from Pinehurst town, parks, and botanical gardens. 3
The catch
- While several visitors praise the free breakfast and its cinnamon rolls, others consider the spread just average and on par with other budget chains. drawn from the full read
- Front desk service earned praise for proactive early check-in calls, yet some guests felt the operations were not built for travelers needing consistent room configuration management. 35
Who it's for
- — Pinehurst area golfers
- — Highway road-trippers
- — Guests seeking wheelchair-accessible rooms
Skip it if
- — Guests requiring daily housekeeping
- — Travelers expecting full-service resort amenities
How to book
One night, standard room. Award prices move with demand and availability is not checked here.
Score breakdown
How the 86/100 is built, category by category — each one with the strongest thing travelers actually said, and the source it came from.
Bathroom
93- “Handicap accessible room is spacious with plenty room for a wheelchair. Bathroom has wide doors and easy access.” 3
- “Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southern Pines-Pinehurst Area by IHG provides a smart and comfortable stay in Southern Pines with free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and a powerful power shower.” 2
Food
90Location
91Nothing quotable yet on this one — the score leans on the rest of the coverage.
Noise
91- “Short 10 minutes drive to Pinehurst town. A botanical garden and 2 parks with walking trails located within 15 minutes from hotel. Very quiet environment.” 3
Room
89Service
88Value
89Nothing quotable yet on this one — the score leans on the rest of the coverage.
Where it is, how to reach it
Details checked 2026-09-12
Where it sits
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southern Pines-pinehurst Area By IHG and the 5 other hotels we cover in Pinehurst. Hover a marker for the hotel; click to open it.
Stay value
How this property reads against the hotels we cover alongside it. Measured on review evidence, not on a nightly rate.
Beats what $ usually buys
Scores 4 points above the modest median of 82, across 458 hotels in the same bracket. In Pinehurst it sits 10 points above the local median of 76.
- This hotel
- 86
- Bracket median
- 82
- Index median
- 86
Based on 458 comparable hotels.
Which room to ask for
What reviewers say about where to sleep inside this building — by room number where one is named, and otherwise by floor, wing, aspect and position. Every line opens onto the quotes behind it.
No reviewer has yet described a room, floor or aspect specifically enough to act on at this property. Room intelligence appears here the moment they do.
Where travelers agree — and don’t
The topics reviewers split on most. A wide bar means your experience depends on which room you get — or whose opinion you trust.
View the 20 things travelers said behind this verdict▾
Quotes run exactly as travelers wrote them — spelling and all. We trim for length, never for tidiness.
- “I was greeted by the General Manager Ms. Marquita. She was so kind, asked about...” 9
- “Made for regional golfers and road-trippers, and not for guests who require daily housekeeping and consistent room configuration management.” 3
- “This Victorian-era hotel provides guests with handsomely furnished accommodations and first-class service.” 4
- “I actually left my home early and was arriving at 12:30 based on my GPS, in the meantime the hotel called and told me my room was ready for my arrival and this was at 11:30AM. It was really nice, and they were nice. I arrived check in was great.” 5
- “i am a huge fan of HIX. especially the new ones with the headboard backlighting, that's so nice. it keeps the glare off the tv.” 5
- “Handicap accessible room is spacious with plenty room for a wheelchair. Bathroom has wide doors and easy access.” 3
- “Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southern Pines-Pinehurst Area by IHG provides a smart and comfortable stay in Southern Pines with free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and a powerful power shower.” 2
- “The bed was fluffy and comfortable.” 5
- “Short 10 minutes drive to Pinehurst town. A botanical garden and 2 parks with walking trails located within 15 minutes from hotel. Very quiet environment.” 3
- “There's one in Memphis we love so much that we keep going back. The breakfast lady is amazing and has offered us her family & friends discount.” 5
- “I've stayed in multiple Holiday Inn Express hotels. I've never had a complaint. The free breakfast is actually quite good.” 5
- “The free breakfast is actually quite good. Jen3404 • 3 taon ang nakalipas It was really just OK and kind of the same as Hilton.” 5
- “Breakfast is decent enough for an included hotel breakfast.” 5
- “Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southern Pines-Pinehurst Area by IHG provides a smart and comfortable stay in Southern Pines with free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and a powerful power shower.” 2
- “Breakfast in the morning was good, was it amazing? No, pretty standard, but the coffee was excellent, and they had Chiobani yogurt which I love.” 5
- “it keeps the glare off the tv. also, those cinnamon rolls at breakfast. ugh so good!” 5
- “Handicap accessible room is spacious with plenty room for a wheelchair.” 3
- “I went back to my room and sat in a really awesome chaise lounge chair that was so comfortable, I kind of tucked into the corner and read for a while.” 5
- “All three options boast spacious guest rooms and classic Southern decor with bright, neutral tones and elegant-yet-cozy furniture.” 4
- “The lobby was clean, the room was clean with Dove shampoo, body wash, hand soap and body lotion. That was a great surprise since Hilton often doesn't have hand soap.” 5
What we still don't know
What we can’t tell you yet, said plainly. These close as we read more coverage of this hotel.
- No reviewer has named an individual room number here yet.
- Nothing reliable said about room types.
- Nothing reliable said about floor level.
- Nothing reliable said about building or wing.
- Nothing reliable said about which side it faces.
- Nothing reliable said about view.
- Nothing reliable said about position on the floor.
- Food rests on 2 sources — too thin to rely on.
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How much we read
Solid coverage · 46/100We read 10 sources for this property, and pulled 25 traveler insights worth knowing. Last checked 2026-09-12.
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Sources
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- 5Holiday Inn Express : r/hotelsreddit.comForum thread2024-01-21Ageing15 quotes used
“The bed was fluffy and comfortable.”
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“Holiday Inn Express & Suites Southern Pines-Pinehurst Area by IHG provides a smart and comfortable stay in Southern Pines with free hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and a powerful power shower.”
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“Handicap accessible room is spacious with plenty room for a wheelchair. Bathroom has wide doors and easy access.”
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“All three options boast spacious guest rooms and classic Southern decor with bright, neutral tones and elegant-yet-cozy furniture.”
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