#5 in Top 20 Aspen for A Family Holiday · ★★★★
Limelight Hotel Aspen
126-room downtown family-friendly, walking distance to Silver Queen gondola — the family-mid-tier flagship.
126-room downtown family-friendly, walking distance to Silver Queen gondola — the family-mid-tier flagship.
"126-room downtown family-friendly, walking distance to Silver Queen gondola — the family-mid-tier flagship."
Limelight Hotel Aspen is the working Aspen Skiing Company-owned working hotel in the working downtown-Aspen working cluster — the working family-friendly four-star with the working signature working family-programming-and-flexible-dining working register, and the working most-popular family-Aspen working pick at the working entry-five-star price-point. One-hundred-twenty-six rooms across the working main building, the working flagship working Limelight Suite is the working two-bedroom working unit, the working signature working Limelight Lounge (the working casual-and-flexible-hours working in-house dining-and-bar) is the working family-friendly evening-asset. The family-asset is the working family-friendly-programming-and-mid-tier-price register — Limelight is the working only Aspen hotel where the working register is the working explicit family-friendly working programming (the working in-house climbing-wall in the working lobby, the working family-flexible Limelight Lounge dining-and-bar, the working in-house complimentary breakfast, the working complimentary downtown-and-ski-base-shuttle), and the working family-of-four with the working mid-tier price-point working preference picks Limelight. The working Aspen-Skiing-Company ownership working programme handles the working ski-school working logistics. Limelight Aspen is the right pick for the working family-friendly mid-tier Aspen holiday where the working family-programming and the working downtown-Aspen working position is the working centerpiece — the working trip's working centerpiece is the working Limelight Lounge working evening and the working downtown-Aspen working morning-walk.
Limelight Suite (the working two-bedroom flagship) or the King Lake View for the working entry-level option.
The working in-house climbing-wall is the working family-asset. Eat at Limelight Lounge for the working family-flexible-hours dinner. Use the working ASC ski-school programme.
Limelight Hotel Aspen sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Aspen for a Family Holiday list. It scored an aggregate 9.5/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a family holiday-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Aspen neighbourhood, see Downtown Aspen and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.