If you’re searching for a hotel in Downtown Baltimore these days you often have two choices: pay exorbitantly high rates or settle for substandard quality… at rates that are slightly lower but also exorbitant! Let’s take a look at why you shouldn’t stay at the Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor.
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I booked this hotel for 3 nights on the weekend of June 12-15 2026. Coming into town for a reunion, my dates were not flexible at all.
Those nights totaled an average of $230.39 each after tax and all charges. The Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor has an incredibly low Expedia rating of 5.2 from 1005 reviews. Can’t say I disagree!
I chose this hotel because every other property cost twice as much this weekend. I’m not aware of why. Dave Chappelle was at the arena but that shouldn’t fill every room in town.
Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor Location
The location is the only thing that’s not wrong with the Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor. It’s among a cluster of hotels very near the harbor and convention center. There’s a number of food outlets and convenience stores nearby. You can make every transit connection easily from here, and walk to the stadiums.
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However the hotel is on Lombard Street, which is a pretty harsh streetscape and a road designed to move as many cars as possible from one interstate to another. There’s a lot of traffic noise and walking on Lombard Street is often unpleasant.
Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor Property
This building has always been a hotel. In the heyday of the early Inner Harbor it was quite a nice hotel. It’s changed ownership and gone downhill significantly with each of those changes.
I think the current owners took it over relatively recently. It’s clear they have no money and don’t intend to spend any money on the property. Everything is shabby and worn out here. There are paper signs taped up all over. Things are out of order. The employees wear street clothes. They don’t do housekeeping.
These are things you might expect from a $70 motel but this is a high rise hotel in the center of a major city. And they’re charging $230 a night for a disgracefully low level of service.
Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor Guest Rooms
The complete lack of willingness to spend a dime transfers into the guest rooms. The first room I was assigned had a window that wouldn’t close all the way. This would have made the Lombard Street noise twice as loud for a three night stay. Rather than just give me a new room I had to go through the debacle of showing the window to an employee who was about 21 years old. He stared at it listlessly and said “Meh, I think it’s closed enough.”
Well obviously it fucking isn’t!!! If this were acceptable I wouldn;’t be asking for a new room, would I?
I did eventually get my new room which was just as shabby as the first, but with closing windows. The mattress is god-knows how old. Instead of replacing it they’ve opted for slipcovers that zip over it. Every part of the bedding was stained. Rather than replace it they just keep using it. The room is badly under-furnished and the furniture that is here is very cheap. The room has been subject to the most low-quality half assed renovation I’ve ever seen.
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I can overlook a lot of this in a $90 room. For $230 a night this is an outright disgrace.
About the Inner Harbor
The Inner Harbor was once a premier destination for tourists, conventioneers and locals alike. But that was 30 years ago. Now it’s a ghost town. Harborplace is completely vacant. Half of East Pratt Street is vacant. Many offices and retail locations in downtown are vacant. In Baltimore there aren’t a lot of alternatives to staying downtown. You can try Harbor East or Fells Point but they aren’t cheap.
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Again, you can deal with being in a vacant downtown for $90 a night. At these prices I would have been better off staying near the airport and using Uber.
Bottom Line
Bottom line is the Comfort Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor sucks and you should not stay here for any price.
If prices are low enough nearby, stay somewhere else. If not, Stay by the airport. It might be out of town and less convenient but you can expect a decent room at a reasonable price.
