Courtyard Aberdeen at Ripken Stadium

Pros and Cons: Pros: location, location, location. Onsite at Ripken Experience, just roll out of bed and walk over to your 8 am game. Free breakfast. The Bonvoy app listed breakfast as a fee, but there was a free breakfast with good variety - nice to grab cereal, yogurt, and fruit if you have to run to a game. Pool by reservation - your family or your team can reserve the pool - as it’s small made it nice to have the area to yourself. Cons: poor enforcement of quiet hours. It’s stated throughout that the quiet hours are 10 pm - 8 am, however, kids playing tag, drunk adults camped out in hallway, etc. At 11:50 pm I had to go out in the hallway and tell a group of drunk moms they were keeping my kids awake - fun for them, not for us! King room only sleeps 3 - the sleeper sofa is a loveseat size and only has a twin foldout - we were very glad we also brought a twin air mattress.

I stay in Marriott hotels across the country, and have done for a number of years, and this is without doubt, the worst i have stayed in, EVER!!. Upon arrival i was greeted by a pleasant member of staff, who checked me in, there was no acknowledgement of my Marriott Elite membership, but thats not the end of the world. Having worked all day and then driven 7 hours to get to the hotel, i headed straight for my room. This is where the experience starts to rapidly decline. The carpet in the room was covered in large stains from i dont know what. there were extra pillows as requested, and before going down for dinner, i drew my curtains to get changed. The stains on the curtains made the carpet look clean. The bathroom was not much cleaner, with the toilet seat loose. I went down to reception to complain, and was met by another member of staff, this time not so friendly or attentive. I explained the problem to which he said "do you want another room"? i said i would and he gave me another room to move into just 3 doors down. This room was not much better, and as i had no help in moving my luggage, pillows, computer bag etc, i decided to stay in the first filthy room. Surely things couldnt get any worse, so i went down and sat down in the restaurant where i ordered Chicken wings to start and then a grilled chicken burger for my main course. The chicken wings came, and although were hot in temperature, were burnt on the bottom, as if they had been cooked on a tray that had remnants of previously cooked burnt food that had stuck to my wings. The chicken burger came and that was the same, as were the new potatoes i had ordered instead of chips. Overall a very disappointing meal. i got an early night as i had another early start in the morning. When i came down for breakfast, i was seated and asked if i wanted anything hot to eat as there was only a cold buffet out in the self service area. I asked for a menu, and the member of staff said "we dont have menus, but the kitchen does the usual hot stuff, bacon, sausages eggs". not great again but i ordered scrambled eggs and mushrooms which werent too bad although the service left much to be desired. I will never stay here again, and would be delighted to expand more should anyone from Marriot Bonvoy wish to contact me.

This hotel, co-located with the Residence Inn by Marriott is adjacent to the Ripken field baseball stadium. You can stay here and walk to the game. We were visiting our granddaughter who lives also within walking distance of the hotel. The room was comfortable, but the bathroom was small. Our main complaint is that they charged our credit card $20 for incidentals, just in case. Our refund is going to take 5 to 7 days to hit our card. Booking through a service prevented credit to our rewards program.