225 rooms anchoring the Park Place complex at Westgate Circle, with the most professional banquet floor in the city, an indoor pool, and the Heavenly Bed product that quietly makes the Westin the most rested night in Annapolis.
"The Annapolis hotel where the operating discipline is most visible. The Westin is not architecturally interesting, but it is the most consistent four-star night in the city: heavenly bed, indoor pool, a quiet boardroom floor, and a circle drive that actually swallows ten arrivals at once."
The Westin Annapolis opened in 2007 as the anchor tenant of the Park Place mixed-use development at Westgate Circle, the historic westward gateway into the city. The address is a fifteen-minute walk to the Maryland State House, eighteen minutes to City Dock, and a five-minute drive to the Naval Academy main gate. The building is a brick and limestone structure of twelve floors with a circle drive on Westgate, an attached parking garage, and direct connectivity to the Park Place restaurants and shops, which makes it the only Annapolis property that functions as a self-contained vertical campus.
The 225 rooms run from 320 square foot Deluxe Kings to a 1,250 square foot Presidential Suite on the top floor. Categories above Deluxe include Premier (corner unit), Junior Suites (with sleeper-sofa parlour), and the small but useful collection of two-bedroom suites that handle Naval Academy parent weekends. The room product is the conventional Westin brief: Heavenly Bed, Heavenly Bath, a properly engineered desk, blackout curtains, and a quietly excellent climate system. Bathrooms in upper categories are double-vanity with deep soaking tubs.
The food and beverage offer is more competent than it is daring. Azure on the lobby level handles breakfast and dinner with a Chesapeake-leaning menu (the crab cake plate is the regional benchmark for hotel kitchens) and a small lounge serves the after-work crowd from the surrounding office floors. The property is not a restaurant destination, but it is a reliable in-house meal between meetings. The 12,000 square foot ballroom is the largest single-room banquet space in the city, with a 250 plated capacity, and the dedicated executive boardroom on the eighth floor is the property's quiet secret.
The amenity floor is where the Westin earns its family booking. The indoor heated pool runs to twenty metres, the fitness centre is full-service with the Westin Workout loaner kit, and the spa partnership offers in-room treatments rather than a fixed spa floor. Service is the Marriott Bonvoy machine at its most polished: a properly staffed front desk, a competent concierge with strong Naval Academy intel, and the bell team that genuinely handles a corporate group of 200 without theatre. Parking is in the attached Park Place garage with hotel-validated daily rates.
For Annapolis business travel, the Westin is the safe and almost always correct booking. The 12,000 square foot ballroom holds anything the Maryland State House calendar can throw at it, the executive boardroom on the eighth floor is a serious private-meeting space, and the room product is the most rested night in the city for a five-day stretch. Marriott Bonvoy Platinum recognition is the most consistent in Annapolis.
For a Naval Academy parent weekend or a family weekend tied to the historic downtown, the Westin is the practical answer in a city where most stock is small inns. The two-bedroom suite category, the indoor pool, the attached parking, and the fifteen-minute walk to City Dock combine into the simplest family logistics in town. The Family Pack programme covers cribs and kid bath kits without fuss.
100 Westgate Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401
United States
Fifteen minutes on foot to State House, eighteen to City Dock
225 rooms across twelve floors
Deluxe King from $140/night
Premier corner from $215/night
Two-bedroom suite from $389/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Pet friendly. Attached Park Place garage with validated daily parking.
Indoor heated pool (twenty metres)
Westin WORKOUT fitness centre
12,000 sq ft ballroom; nine breakout rooms
Azure restaurant and lobby lounge
Free high-speed WiFi for Bonvoy members
From $140/night. Two-bedroom suites and Premier categories book three months ahead for Commissioning Week and Plebe Parents Weekend; one month for legislative session weeks in the Maryland State House calendar.
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