Consider the Holiday Chalet for your next family vacation or business trip to Denver, Colorado. Modern Suites - A Home Away From Home. Each of ten suites accommodates single travelers and families with fully equipped kitchens and private baths with toiletries. In-room additions include High Speed Internet Access (wireless), TVs and VCRs with a complimentary video library. Babysitting (additional $10/hour) and cribs are available. In the morning, join us in our dining room for a Full Breakfast from 7:30 to 10:00 AM, with your choice from a variety of delicious offerings, such as French Crepes, cowboy pancakes, crustless quiche, French toast, Lox plate, fresh fruits, juice, tea, and great coffee. You can get authentic Crystal Sharp unique clothing, jewelry, houseware, and gifts at the Holiday Chalet. This off shoot of the specializes in houseware, gifts, Christopher Radko Christmas Ornaments, pillows, quilts, photo albums, bath accessories, and even childrens books. Clementine, our adorable Black Lab, enjoys having company. Guests are invited to bring the dog for a $5/day charge, provided the family pet is well-mannered and when left unattended is in a crate (PS: we have crates available). A kennel is available nearby. Business Amenities. We understand that travelling for business travel can be stressful and do our best to insure your stay is relaxed, quiet and convenient. The Holiday Chalet is a wonderful, cozy alternative to an impersonal apartment for rent for a longer-term stay. Amenities include: fax service, high-speed wireless Internet access, data ports, and voice mail on all telephones. The Wall Street Journal and reservation services are also available. Ideal Business Leisure Location. The Holiday Chalet is centrally located to downtown Denver's business district and many of the city's major tourist and sporting destinations. Crystal has prepared a helpful take-along booklet of listings - a 'bible' of Denver - for every guest, listing everything from auto service locations to directions to fine and casual dining throughout the area. If you are moving or relocating to Denver, consider our special, homey accommodations as a perfect base. Museum of Natural History, IMAX Theater and Planetarium. City Chessman Parks. Major Hospitals and Medical Facilities. State Capitol of Colorado. Denver's Downtown Business/Financial Center. Colorado Convention Center. Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Downtown 16 Street Mall. Colorado's Ocean Journey Aquarium. Six Flags Elitch Gardens. Click on the images above to take virtual tour of our common areas!

Experience Our Living History. Whether you are planning your honeymoon, looking for a retreat for your weekend getaway, or planning a stop in Denver on your Colorado vacation, you can begin making your own history at the historical Holiday Chalet Bed and Breakfast Inn. Our small, immaculate hotel was originally Henry Bohm's Mansion, Mr. Bohm was a prominent Denver jeweler in 1896. It was purchased in 1912 by Noah Hayden Griffith and his wife Ida Lindsey. In 1952, it was converted to an AAA hotel. After Noah Hay-den died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918, Ida converted this mansion from a 12-room, 2-bath home to 12 efficiency apartments. It remained as an apartment house until 1952 when Margaret Griffith converted it to a hotel. In 2002 The Holiday Chalet celebrated it's 50th birthday as a hotel bed breakfast. The third floor hosts a gathering place/library for games and reading, visiting or sharing coffee with other guests and friends or enjoying a sing-along around the piano. Today's tea room was once Ida Lindsey's apartment from 1922 until her death in 1944. For the Bohm family this was once the parlor. In 1898 Baron Von Richtofen (great uncle to the Red Baron) laid in state prior to his funeral at Fairmont Cemetery. Ida was a woman of refined taste, and her hobby was painting bone china and creating more than 51 original patterns over her lifetime. (She also had a kerosene kiln in the basement). So enamored of this pattern is Crowe that she is having tea sets made in China replicating Grandma Ida's pattern. She plans to sell them at gift shows. Regrettably, Crowe never knew her, but her grandmother's genteel spirit permeates the hotel, though it wasn't always so. When Crowe's parents took over the family business in 1952, they converted it from apartments to a hotel, where rooms went for $5-7 a night, and the prevailing decor was Roy Rogers chic; or kitsch, as Crowe remembers it. We had the decor that would've been considered cool at that time, she says. When she took over in 1985, her goal was to restore it to the glory days of her grandmother. Chintzes and lace decorate the nine guest rooms, floral carpets line the halls and rich dark woodwork frame the windows. This king-sized suite (apartment 22) was once the city apartment for Judge Summerville and his wife Grace. Judge Summerville was from Hugo, Colorado. I wanted it to look as it might've when Grandma was here, she says, taking a visitor to the second floor to show where she slept as a child. Her room, the tiny sunroom in the efficiency once inhabited by her maiden Aunt Mary, looks barely big enough to hold a bed, but she insists it did. We lived in inches here, she says. It's easy to imagine the room (now a guest room) as it once was; a quaint apartment, small yet elegant, with a Pullman kitchen that has retained its original appliances (four pull-down burners on the kitchen counter and a wall oven that opens like two French doors; the height of modernity when it was put in). Today, Crowe spends her days at the hotel, once her childhood home, fussing over details, tending to guests who come from all over the world, and hosting afternoon tea parties. (High tea is available to the public with advance reservations.) She also is a repository of Denver history, having grown up in this neighborhood. Ask anything about Colfax and its inhabitants, and she knows who did what and where they did it. At the end of the day, however, when all stories have been told and all guests are tucked in, she walks the short distance to her official residence in the mansion-turned-apartments next door. Once owned by her parents, this home is another example of the elegance that formerly marked this neighborhood. The foyer presents a grand entrance; featuring intricately carved wood banisters and ornamentation. A Victorian sofa in the entry was a gift from Baby Doe Tabor to her brother and a rocking chair nearby belonged to Queen Victoria's grandmother. But the real surprise is upstairs in Crowe's apartment, a trip back in time to the fabulous world of 1001 Arabian nights. White Moorish arches, added in the 1970s, frame the living room, an eclectic mix of old (two of Baby Doe's chairs) and not-old (a replica of Napoleon's throne chair), all cozily assembled in a delightfully haphazard way. A prominent Tiffany chandelier defines the dining area, which is at one end of the living room. But other light fixtures in the spacious apartment outshine the Tiffany; if not in value, at least in cool factor. Two sparkly ornate wall sconces frame one window and five super-ornate chandeliers line the ceiling of the long hall to the bedrooms. Aunt Mary got these fixtures at Levitz Furniture in the 1970s when Mediterranean was the rage, she says. These are real (and inexpensive) Moroccan chandeliers. They work big time, especially nestled between the wall of white arches and the brightly detailed Oriental wallpaper that lines the other side of the hall. The real lesson here is when you have a good eye; and Crowe has one; you can mix expensive (Tiffany's) with inexpensive (Levitz) and the effect is dazzling. Fantastic as it is, Crowe spends little time in her apartment. After all, a hotel manager is technically on call 24 hours a day. But between the two neighboring mansions, she is never far from a deep connection to her past and a comfortable connection to her present. The tea room at the Holiday Chalet has been renovated to reflect the times when such a room was in use. The hotel's owner, Margot Crowe, took over the hotel in 1985 and is working to restore it to the way it was in her grandmother Ida's day in the 1920's. To make reservations for high tea or to get more information about the Ida Lindsey bone china, call (303) 437-8245 or 1-800-626-4497. The Holiday Chalet is located at 1820 E. Colfax. The Ida Lindsey China Company sprang from the breaking of this bone china serving dish. After restoring this piece at the cost of $895, Margot decided to reproduce the works of her grandmother Ida Lindsey.

Nestled in Denver's Historic Wyman District 'The Holiday Chalet' takes you on a journey into Colorado's colorful past. The hotel is a fully restored Victorian brownstone which was originally built in 1896 for a prominent jeweler. Elegant period decor; high ceilings; hardwood floors; intricate moldings; private baths and kitchens; and a full breakfast, help make your stay at the Holiday Chalet a memorable experience. While the Victorian ambiance provides warmth, charm and comfort, our business and leisure travelers will find excellent shopping, touring, and abundant day and night life within minutes of their hotel room. We are 3 Diamond, AAA-rated because of attention to our guests' comfort, privacy and security. A central location makes our bed and breakfast a haven for business and leisure travelers, or a comfortable residence for extended stays. Come visit the new She She boutique at the Holiday Chalet. Use this page to receive a 20% discount on your first purchase at the boutique. In the morning, enjoy a Full Breakfast from 7:30 to 10:00 AM, with your choice from a variety of delicious offerings, such as French Crepes, cowboy pancakes, crustless quiche, French toast, Lox plate, fresh fruits, juice, tea, and great coffee. After breakfast, hop on a Gray Line bus (in front of the hotel) to enjoy the sights of Denver. As an added bonus, each guest is provided with Crystal's travel guide of helpful listings; everything from Auto Service locations to directions to the Denver Zoo. For our business travelers, we now provide high-speed wireless access from any room on the hotel. Holiday Chalet - A Victorian Hotel Bed Breakfast. 1820 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80218 (303) 437-8245 | (800) 626-4497 | Fax: (303) 377-6556 Crystal Sharp, Innkeeper hotel-base.com - Accommodation Worldwide. Design, Hosting and Promotion by. Acorn Internet Services

 Guest rooms have air conditioning
 Baby chairs and cots are provided
 Luggage storage
 Breakfast may be served in the room
 Central situation
 Playground for children
 Clothes dry cleaning
 Conference and meeting room
 Credit cards accepted
 Facsimile services
 Hairdryer
 Access to internet
 Ironing facilities
 Kitchen
 Laundry services/washing machine
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Around-the-clock recetpion
 Pets are accepted
 Private park, garden, courtyard
 Fridge
 Restaurant
 Shop on premises
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 Phone at reception
 Phones in rooms
 TV sets in rooms
 Cheques accepted