Denver visit suggestions

HImom
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:04:27 +0000

The Brown Palace was where we enjoyed a great 25th anniversary dinner. It’s downtown, great food and prices were OK. Best to make reservations.

We also ate at Elways (walking distance of the Convention Center), which also had good food, somewhat pricey. There are some GREAT French restaurants in Denver near the Capitol, but not walking distance of the Convention Center.

If you love books, the Tattered Cover is a wonderful, cozy bookstore. It has a nice restaurant there as well (sorry name escapes me at the moment). It has a lounge area with sofas, coffee tables, and lovely coffee table books where you can have appetizers & drinks, or even your entire meal. When we’ve eaten there, the food was always nice. It was near Cherry Creek, which is a bus, cab ride or drive from the Convention Center.

We love Denver–lots of good places to eat, nice people and well-maintained city. Elevation can be an issue for folks who have respiratory issues–supplemental oxygen use is commonner there than many other places because of both the altitude and the awarenss of the Denver medical community of assessing oxygen saturation and benefits of supplemental oxygen for appropriate patients.

Also, be prepared for just about any type of weather. You can have sun, rain, hail or/and snow, all in the same day, with temperatures changing a great deal in a relatively short time–use layers.