Irvine · Hotel shortlist
The best hotels near Great Park
Marc Delacroix France
These are my five favourites in Irvine, out of the 5 that qualified. I read what other travellers scored them before I picked, so the order follows the guests, 4.5 down to 3.4.
All five are within 2.8 km of Great Park.
Highest rated of the five
Courtyard by Marriott Irvine Spectrum
★★★★★4.5 from 1,276 reviews
Courtyard by Marriott Irvine Spectrum comes out on top of this list, and not narrowly: 4.5 from 1,276 guest reviews is a score that holds up at that volume, which is the whole test here. A perfect ten from nine people does not beat it.
It is a 3 star property, found under poi and around $498 a night on the dates we checked.
All five, ranked
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Courtyard by Marriott Irvine Spectrum
★★★★★4.5 from 1,276 reviews
1.9 km from Great Park, about a 24 minute walk
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2Marriott Irvine Spectrum
★★★★★4.4 from 1,161 reviews
1.7 km from Great Park, about a 21 minute walk
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3DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Irvine - Spectrum
★★★★★4.3 from 1,668 reviews
2.0 km from Great Park, about a 25 minute walk
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4Sonesta Simply Suites Irvine Spectrum
★★★★★3.9 from 523 reviews
2.8 km from Great Park
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5La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Irvine Spectrum
★★★★★3.4 from 1,354 reviews
1.5 km from Great Park, about a 19 minute walk
How this list was put together
5 Irvine hotels qualify for this list. We ranked them on guest rating first and on how close they are to Great Park second, then took the top five.
Two things decide these lists. The first is my own time in the city: every hotel on this page is one I have stayed in, walked into and looked at, or gone back to check. That is where the shortlist starts, and it is why some well reviewed places are not on it.
The second is the numbers, and those are what set the order. The rating and review count come from the big travel sites, pooled through Google, so a score here reflects Expedia, Booking, Hotels.com and the rest together rather than any one of them. I also read the review breakdown by topic, which is where the figures on service, breakfast and location come from. Hotels with fewer than forty reviews are left out altogether, because a rating that thin is not a rating. No more than two come from one neighbourhood.
What I do not do is move anyone up the order. The ranking is the guest score, highest first, and nobody pays to be on the list.
Distances are straight lines from published coordinates, so the real walk is a little longer. Amenities are as recorded by Google Hotels and can change without notice. Rates are an indicative nightly figure for a midweek autumn stay, not a quote. Check the booking page before you commit.
Marc Delacroix France
Closes the shop two weeks each winter and goes wherever people make something fermented. Dairies in the Basque country, the Caucasus and rural Sardinia.
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