Origin Hotel Red Rocks

Reviews

• BM

  B M

  2 days ago
  4.0
  We had a nice stay with great service. The shuttle to Red Rocks is 3rd party and $60 a person. This hotel is convenient if your home by to a show at Red Rocks, hiking or exploring the area with a car. Downtown Golden is a 15 min drive. It looks like the area is being developed. There is a cafe and a gas station across the street with more businesses moving in.
• LL

  Lynn

  Oct 7, 2026
  1.0
  We had pretty high expectations for this hotel, but unfortunately we were really disappointed with our stay. The first issue was the hair dryer. It wouldn’t turn on, so we assumed it was broken and called the front desk. They told us their computer system was down, so they couldn’t check if they had a spare. We waited for about an hour and never heard back, so we had to call again. They finally brought us another hair dryer, and that’s when we realized the hair dryer wasn’t even the problem. The bathroom outlet didn’t work. There were quite a few other things wrong with the room too. The shampoo bottle in the shower was labeled “Hand & Body Lotion,” so we weren’t sure if it was actually shampoo or if we should even use it. The toilet paper holder was broken, and the whole roll fell onto the bathroom floor when we tried to grab some. One of the lights in the room also wasn’t working. The worst part was probably the AC. It was SO loud that it was hard to sleep, which made the stay even more frustrating. The only real positive for us was the location. If you’re going to Red Rocks, it’s very convenient since it’s less than a 10 minute drive. But other than that, there really isn’t much around the hotel. Besides the hotel restaurant, there’s only one other restaurant nearby, so there aren’t many options for food. I normally wouldn’t complain about one or two small things, but there were just too many issues with our room. It honestly felt like no one had checked everything before we arrived. For what we were expecting from this hotel, the overall experience was pretty disappointing.
• EP

  Eric Pedigo

  Oct 6, 2026
  4.0
  Friendly and helpful staff. Bar and restaurant are good when they are open. The bar and restaurant are closed when you return from the Red Rocks concerts. No late night dining or drinks open within walking distance. The only food available at the hotel are burritos that are purchased from the front desk.
• KL

  Kellie Lock

  Sep 22, 2026
  5.0
  I rarely write reviews, but I felt compelled to write one about Jamie, the bartender at the Origin Hotel Red Rocks. I was staying at the hotel for a once-in-a-lifetime concert at Red Rocks, and while the concert was incredible, one of the true highlights of my stay ended up being Jamie. Jamie reminded me of the way you read about great bartenders from the late ’50s and ’60s—when tending bar was really an art. It wasn’t just about making a drink. It was about conversation, remembering little things, making people laugh, and somehow making everyone sitting at that bar feel a little bit special. That is Jamie. He was incredibly sweet, personable, funny, attentive, and genuinely interested in the people he was serving. There was nothing forced or “customer service” about it. I had just met him, yet somehow he created the feeling that I was a regular at a neighborhood bar I’d been visiting for years. It was honestly a whole Cheers experience—where everybody knows your name—even though Jamie had only just learned mine. The hotel itself was simply where I happened to be staying. Jamie is what made the experience memorable. You can teach someone how to make drinks, but you cannot teach this kind of genuine warmth and hospitality. I came for a concert I’ll never forget, and I certainly didn’t expect the bartender to become part of what made the experience so special—but he did. Jamie is an absolute gem.
• AM

  Austin M

  Sep 14, 2026
  2.0
  Staff was nice. First room smelled like sewage, so I was quickly transferred to another room. I thought “Things happen, no big deal.” The new room smelled clean, but there were little things that looked amiss. The wallpaper was peeling up in the bathroom, and there was chipped paint around some parts of the trim, but I didn’t really worry about that because it was just a place I could sleep, so that was initially low on my worries. However, when I went to go to sleep later that night, I got into the bed, and came to realize I was sleeping in POLYESTER sheets with a POLYESTER comforter with POLYESTER filled pillows with POLYESTER pillowcases. I was sleeping in a miserable plastic bedding nightmare!! My legs were sparking under the sheets because of the static buildup between the synthetic material and my leg hair. It was hot and non breathing and just absolutely miserable. On top of that, there were CRUMBS in my sheets!! So the staff quickly brought up a change of sheets after a phone call noting the unacceptable situation. The new sheets I was given were a queen fitted sheet and two king flat sheets. Having a king mattress, I resigned my distress and just laid between the two flat sheets since the fitted sheet didn't fit the mattress. On top of my miserable sheet experience, the mattress was in sad condition and felt YEARS past its life span, since there were two deep sunken spots where people had slept on this for years. Had this been a $70 Motel 6 room in Cheyenne, I might have understood, but this was $650/night, and the bedding was worse than sleeping on cheap child’s bedding on a hand-me-down mattress. The website also touted the “available shuttle service” to the concert venue at Red Rocks. At $650 a night, I thought this was a great perk. Well shame on me for assuming it was complimentary and not reading into the misleading language like an attorney.. turns out the “available shuttle service” was $120 for two people to be bussed 5 miles down the road and back. This $1300 two-night stay was a great disappointment to an otherwise wonderful weekend. I would never be willing to stay somewhere again with such poor bedding that was so expensive. I will steer friends and family away from this hotel in the future. (And that is sad because the great majority of my rarely made Google reviews are positive) The staff was very nice, like I said, and the soap/shampoo was pleasant, but that was all I can say that was positive for our experience at the Origin Red Rocks Hotel.

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