Best Western Executive Inn, Dallas, Texas

Discover the Best Western Executive Inn, east of downtown Dallas between White Rock Lake State Park and Lake Ray Hubbard. We would love to have you here for Mesquite Rodeo or when visiting the Fair Park for the State Fair and the Cotton Bowl. There are plenty of shopping centers and restaurants nearby. The sports and entertainment are just a short drive to Dallas downtown.The Best Executive Inn is the ideal business and leisure traveler's hotel, which is easily accessible from the major highways, and within very short distance from the local corporations.

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During your Dallas vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:

The Dallas World Aquarium
Housed in a former warehouse in the West End district, the Dallas aquarium not at Fair Park is a good place to hide out from the sun downtown. My niece and nephew enjoy communing with the stingrays, sea turtles, sharks, and reef fish. Their favorite, though, is "Orinoco -- Secrets of the River," an immersion into the tropical rainforest of Venezuela, a cool area teeming with Peruvian squirrel monkeys, endangered Orinoco crocs, jaguars, and soft-billed toucans. The newest exhibit is "Mundo Maya," with a 400,000-gallon shark tank. Plan on about an hour's visit. A restaurant and a cafe are on the premises.

Fair Park
Fair Park, a classic conglomeration of Art Deco buildings and spacious grounds built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition, is undergoing a renaissance. Built to commemorate the Republic of Texas's independence from Mexico, it is the only intact and unaltered, pre-1950s world's fair site in the United States. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark for its architecture (the only such landmark in Dallas), Fair Park is an attraction year-round, but especially so during the annual State Fair of Texas (last weekend of Sept and first 3 weeks of Oct), which just celebrated its 50th year.The 277-acre grounds include several museums and performance and sporting facilities like the State Fair Coliseum, Cotton Bowl, Fair Park Bandshell, and Starplex Amphitheater, one of the city's top concert venues. The two major areas are the Esplanade and the Lagoon. There's much to see and do at Fair Park, so depending on your time, you may have to pick and choose. Plan on 2 or 3 hours minimum, and a full day during the State Fair of Texas. Below are the highlights:The Women's Museum, 3800 Parry Ave. (tel. 214/915-0860; www.thewomensmuseum.org), is a huge coup for Dallas. The pet project of a trio of Texas women and designed by Wendy Joseph, the chief designer behind the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., this exciting $25-million museum is an ambitious, high-tech architectural feast, audacious enough to encompass the accomplishments of women over the past century.The museum presents two dozen mostly interactive exhibits, with a clear predilection for engaging the visitor with technological wizardry. Audio guides (handheld cellphones) feature the voices of "mentors" Connie Chung, Gladys Knight, and the former Texas governor Ann Richards. "It's Amazing" is a glass labyrinth of female stereotypes, behind which are revealed several women who defied convention; "Mothers of Invention" showcases popular inventions by women (such as Liquid Paper, conceived by a Dallas secretary, and the brown paper bag). The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5pm. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and students ages 13 to 18, and $3 for children ages 5 to 12.The Hall of State, 3939 Grand Ave. (tel. 214/421-4500; www.hallofstate.com; open Tues-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm), is the centerpiece and principal Art Deco legacy at Fair Park. Inside is a Texan's dream, the Hall of Heroes, with larger-than-life (as any Texan will tell you they were in real life) stalwarts of the Republic of Texas, including Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. Venture into the four-story-high Great Hall, yet more proof that bigger is always better in Texas.Trains evoke nostalgic feelings of travel and exploration in just about everyone; the collection at the Age of Steam Railroad Museum, 1105 Washington St. (tel. 214/428-0101; www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com), including 28 locomotives, steam-era Pullman passenger cars, and Dallas's oldest surviving train depot, is sure to feed such impulses in visitors of all ages. The entry in the "Bigger in Texas" sweepstakes? Big Boy, the world's largest steam locomotive. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 5pm; admission is $5 for adults, $2.50 for children.The African American Museum, 3536 Grand Ave. (tel. 214/565-9026; www.aamdallas.org), is the only museum in the Southwest (and one of eight in the country) that focuses on the African-American experience and culture. The standout exhibit is the fine collection of African-American folk art, supplemented by a survey of African art objects and contemporary African-American art. Admission is free; it's open Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5pm, Saturday from 10am to 5pm, and Sunday from 1 to 5pm.The small but diverse collection of marine life at the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, 1300 Cullum Blvd. (tel. 214/670-8443), highlights some of the weirder aquatic specimens in the marine and freshwater world, including walking fish, four-eyed fish, upside-down jellyfish, and desert fish. And who can resist watching the piranhas and sharks being fed? The newest and largest addition is the Amazon Flooded Forest, a 10,000-gallon tank with 30 species from the Amazon River. The aquarium is open daily from 9am to 4:30pm; admission is $3 for adults, $1.50 for children ages 3 to 11.The Dallas Museum of Natural History, 3535 Grand Ave. (tel. 214/421-3466; www.dallasdino.org), is the place to view the kind of wildlife that roamed Texas before steers and longhorns: namely, dinosaurs. Permanent exhibits include "Paleontology Lab" and "Prehistoric Texas." The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm, Sunday from noon to 5pm; admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for students ages 13 to 18, and $4 for children ages 3 to 12. Parking is free.The Science Place & Planetarium/IMAX Theater, 1313 2nd Ave. (tel. 214/428-5555; www.scienceplace.org; open Tues-Fri 9:30am-4:30pm, Sat 9:30am-5:30pm, Sun 11:30am-5:30pm), is a great place to entertain the kids with more than 300 hands-on science exhibits -- where they can amaze themselves by lifting a half-ton with one hand and playing with electricity -- and the massive, domed IMAX theater. The Planetarium features stargazing shows Monday through Saturday.

Nasher Sculpture Center
Despite its status as the principal art museum in a city of considerable wealth, the rather modest permanent collection of the Dallas Museum of Art is proof that either north Texans don't collect much great art or they don't donate it on a grand scale to local institutions. One notable exception to that rule is Raymond Nasher, one of the world's foremost collectors of contemporary sculpture. A local businessman, by way of New York, who made his banking and real estate fortune in Dallas (with the shopping mall NorthPark Center, among other properties), Nasher decided, after years of being wooed by the Dallas Museum of Art as well as major institutions like the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to establish a public sculpture garden in his adopted city. The $50-million project was entirely funded by the private Nasher Foundation.The Nasher Sculpture Center opened in 2003 on a 2 1/2-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art, in a glass-and-marble structure infused with natural light, designed by the renowned architect Renzo Piano. The center should change the way art aficionados think about Dallas and make it an art destination. The collection, which includes high-quality pieces by virtually all of the great modern masters and was amassed over 4 decades by Ray and his wife Patsy, is considered by some art experts to be the finest private sculpture collection in the world. The tasteful 54,000-square-foot center, a place of quiet refuge in downtown Dallas, features an outdoor sculpture garden landscaped by Peter Walker, with pieces from Nasher's immense collection exhibited both indoors and out. The collection includes some of the finest individual works from the likes of Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Joan Miró, David Smith, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Serra, Mark di Suvero, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Joseph Beuys, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others. Among the monumental pieces in the open-air museum there are too many highlights to mention, though James Turrell's "skyspace" Tending (Blue), perhaps deserves special recognition as a site-specific piece commissioned for the museum. At the back of the garden, near the bathrooms, it is a walk-in box open to the sky, with optical effects and an unexpected perspective. Although the Nasher Sculpture Center -- which has some of the biggest names in art and architecture attached to it -- opened with big publicity and truly ought to be one of Dallas's most highly prized treasures, it is sadly and inexplicably having some difficulty attracting visitors, especially locals. If you're at all a fan of modern art, don't miss the opportunity to see this spectacular collection.

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2 out of 5

needs improvement

margaret, Gulfport, MS, 2006-11-26

They did not keep the room supplied and towels were very stained up. Needs better cleaning.

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2 out of 5

I would not recommend

Eileen, Salt Lake City, UT, 2006-11-19

There were no decent places to dine or even to pass some time at.

The room at the Best Western Executive Inn was not clean when I checked in even though it was supposedly ready. I stayed for 4 days and each day the room was cleaned less and less until I finally received no new coffee packets, cups or towels. It was very noisy, especially late at night. When I checked in, there was no TV remote and the phone was broken. I would not stay here again. There was also no place nearby that one would really want to go to to eat, etc. It was not a very great neighborhood.

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Anonymous, 2006-11-11

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Howard, Houston, TX, 2006-06-25

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4 out of 5

Great Value

Anonymous, 2006-06-03

This hotel was a great value for the price of the room. My towels were stained, which I didn't like, but it was a great experience otherwise. The bed was very comfortable, and the receptionist was very helpful.

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4 out of 5

My review of Best Western Executive Inn

Anonymous, 2006-05-14

This seafood resturant named Uncle Sam had the best tilapia and my husband really liked the calamari.

Best Western Executive Inn was comfortable and the hotel staff were nice and very helpful. I liked the area it was located. It was accessable to every hwy we needed to take. I plan on staying at this hotel everytime we travel to Dallas.

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5 out of 5

A Traveller's First-Time Experience

Kit, Toronto, ON, 2006-05-10

There are two kinds of roads in the America: inadequate and under contruction. The East Northwest Highway, upon which the Best Western Executive Inn fronts, is currently under construction and nothing is more entertaining than morning rush hour traffic.

(The following applies only to the Dallas Best Western Executive Inn.) I found the staff to be very amiable and more than willing to go the extra yard in their attempts to fulfill my needs. Though, to be completely honest, after I'd pointed out that I was hearing impaired, more volume and a better command of the English language would have been much appreciated. After presenting me with my telephone messages and key-card, the night clerk bade me a good night. The key-card almost proved to be my undoing. I'd never seen one (to know what it was) before in my life and the instructions on the card presumed that I already knew how to use one. But, I shouldn't complain; that's pretty much par for the course for everything in life. After three minutes of trying all manner of things with the card, I accidentally unlocked the door to my room and was greeted by the Black Hole of Calcutta. Nowhere was there to be found a light switch! Not on the wall near the door nor beside the door, which was two layers of very effective light-blocking curtains. Fortunately, I'd thought to pack a flashlight. Turning on the flashlight showed me where the nearest wall lamp was and turning the lamp switch I discovered that the lamp was burned out. However, such was not the case for the nearest bedside lamp. With the room now somewhat illuminted I made other discoveries. Having driven for three hours to find the motel (the locals rarely needed forty minutes), I wasn't at my best but opted to figure out the door lock before returning to the front desk. With many apologies, the night clerk re-assigned me to a room which *did* have the ammenities. The following morning I discovered that the illuminated light switch to the corner floor lamp was behind the curtains. Though I appreciated the fact that the vanity area, complete with sink, was separate from the bathroom, I questioned the advisability of having the coffee maker there as well. Muzzy-minded morning people, hot glass coffee decanters and hard marble tops don't always get along well together. The food provided in the Continental breakfast was superb as was the company of my fellow guests. Would I stay at the same motel when next I visit Dallas? Yes. I found the staff to be more than willing to assist me whenever I found myself stymied by the designer's preferences.

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1 out of 5

Worst Experience

Jesse, Ontario, CA, 2006-05-04

This was the worst experience of a motel stay in my life, period! While the physical appearance was nice as were the rooms adequate from that point on it went "downhill." During my six night stay I woke up to no water two mornings and only cold one morning. As regard to the "continental" breakfast it was a joke. Four mornings found no fresh fruit, on one morning the juice dispenser was not functioning and if you were an adult you might as well forget a cereal unless you were a fan of Fruit Loops, Coco Puffs or what looked like sugar coated Cherrios. If this weren't enough, I requested an iron as the one in the room was broken (put water in ran out bottom) three times from the front desk, but it wasn't until I spoke with the maid that I finally obtained one.

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5 out of 5

good

john, Los Angeles, CA, 2006-04-22

It was a great place to stay. I was very satisfied.

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5 out of 5

very nice

Anonymous, Oklahoma City, OK, 2006-04-18

there r big car dealers and highway next to the hotel.

i was really nice. i took my parents up there and they liked it too.the people were very freindly.

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