The Academy Hotel Colorado Springs
The verdict
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Who it's for
- — travelers who walk everywhere instead of booking cars
- — travelers who want staff who actually follow through
- — travelers who want more than they paid for
- — long-shower, slow-morning travelers
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Score breakdown
How the 80/100 is built, category by category — each one with the strongest thing travelers actually said, and the source it came from.
Bathroom
83Nothing quotable yet on this one — the score leans on the rest of the coverage.
Location
90- “Take advantage of the convenient location near popular attractions such as Pikes Peak region hotspots like Garden of the Gods and Seven Falls.” 12
Room
81- “If you ask for a south facing room you can watch the airfield from your room and see the powered flights and loads of gliders flying.” 3
Service
86Bed & Sleep
83Nothing quotable yet on this one — the score leans on the rest of the coverage.
Value
85- “The Drury is close, is a great value with free breakfast and afternoon snacks and it is in the same parking lot as Scheels (Sporting Goods Disneyland) and the Colorado Brewing Company (great happy hour).” 3
Where it is, how to reach it
Details checked 2026-08-30
Where it sits
The Academy Hotel Colorado Springs and the 2 other hotels we cover in Colorado Springs. 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.
Falls short of what $ usually buys
Scores 6 points below the modest median of 86, across 262 hotels in the same bracket.
- This hotel
- 80
- Bracket median
- 86
- Index median
- 90
Based on 262 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 12 things travelers said behind this verdict▾
Quotes run exactly as travelers wrote them — spelling and all. We trim for length, never for tidiness.
- “The Drury is close, is a great value with free breakfast and afternoon snacks and it is in the same parking lot as Scheels (Sporting Goods Disneyland) and the Colorado Brewing Company (great happy hour).” 3
- “If you ask for a south facing room you can watch the airfield from your room and see the powered flights and loads of gliders flying.” 3
- “The main advantage Academy has is that they have breakfast.” 6
- “The "available meals" in the hotel (huge breakfast, nice 5pm chow down) are a money saver for them...but there's so much more within walking distance.” 3
- “The Academy Hotel is great for short stays... awesome breakfast” 3
- “The breakfast is super nice and the indoor pool is great too.” 6
- “They are right outside the south gate and are very pro AFA. It is family owned and you will not find a better free breakfast in CS. (chef on duty)” 10
- “They use to give you a gift bag but that too is a thing of the past. They still have a good breakfast... For now. But last month they thinned out a few items on the menu (still pretty good though).” 10
- “It is only a couple exits from North Gate and has tons of restaurants within walking distance or very short car rides. It also has free breakfast every morning and free happy hour every night that you could actually use as dinner.” 3
- “Take advantage of the convenient location near popular attractions such as Pikes Peak region hotspots like Garden of the Gods and Seven Falls.” 12
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.
- 12 sources carry no publication date, so we cannot tell how current they are.
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How much we read
Deep coverage · 19/100We read 0 sources for this property, covering 0 traveler mentions, boiled down to 0 traveler insights worth knowing. Last checked 2026-08-29.
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Sources
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Everything quoted on this page.
- 6Any insight on The Academy Hotel? : r/ColoradoSpringsreddit.comForum thread2025-05-05Recent4 quotes used
“I would also recommend My Place hotel, just off the I-25 at Northgate, they have spectacular views and rooms are much cheaper than most so well within your budget.”
Read originalreddit.com - 3Best place to stay?serviceacademyforums.comForum thread2024-03-17Ageing5 quotes used
“The Drury is close, is a great value with free breakfast and afternoon snacks and it is in the same parking lot as Scheels (Sporting Goods Disneyland) and the Colorado Brewing Company (great happy hour).”
Read originalserviceacademyforums.com - 10Hotel recommendations in Colorado Springsserviceacademyforums.comForum thread2015-06-04Ageing4 quotes used
“In short, they lost their edge. If I am going to pay a premium, I will stay at the Drury Inn and no longer the Academy Inn.”
Read originalserviceacademyforums.com - 1The Academy Hotel Colorado Springsthe-academy.coloradospringscityhotels.comReview siteDate not statedRead originalthe-academy.coloradospringscityhotels.com
- 2The Academy Hotel Colorado Springsdirecthotels.comReview siteDate not stated1 quote used
“Smooth check-in/check-out process”
Read originaldirecthotels.com - 4
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