The Oxford Hotel

The Hotel

The Oxford Hotel opened in 1891 on 17th Street in LoDo — one year before the Brown Palace — and operates as Denver's smallest luxury hotel and its most intimate historic property. The 80 rooms are configured in the original Victorian building, with Art Nouveau detailing and the proportions of a 19th century luxury hotel. The Cruise Room, the hotel's cocktail bar, is a 1933 Art Deco room modelled after a bar on the Queen Mary ocean liner and is the finest period cocktail room between Chicago and San Francisco.

The hotel's LoDo location — adjacent to Denver Union Station and within the neighbourhood that has produced Denver's most interesting independent restaurant scene — gives it a neighbourhood context that the downtown hotels cannot match. The proximity to Coors Field makes it the preferred hotel for baseball season stays.

Urban Farmer steakhouse, the hotel's restaurant, serves Colorado-raised beef in a farm-to-table format that reflects LoDo's culinary character. The hotel's small scale means that service is genuinely personal — the front desk staff knows returning guests by name, which is a specific rarity in Colorado luxury.

Best for Anniversary

The Oxford's combination of 1891 Victorian architecture, the Cruise Room Art Deco bar, and the LoDo neighbourhood's independent restaurant scene produces an anniversary that is specifically Denver in a way the newer boutiques are not. The Cruise Room's champagne service, in the 1933 Art Deco room, is the most atmospheric anniversary toast in Colorado. See all anniversary hotels →

Best for Solo Retreat

The Oxford's 80-room scale and LoDo location make it the most neighbourhood-embedded solo hotel in Denver. The Cruise Room bar's welcoming attitude toward solo drinkers, the Union Station neighbourhood's walkable restaurant scene, and the Cherry Creek bike path a short walk away constitute a self-sufficient solo programme. See all solo retreat hotels →

From $200/night. Check availability.