Below is a sampling of accommodations recommended by our correspondents, sorted according to location. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Many hotels offer a reduced corporate rate for business travelers and conventions. Texas sports bar and grill, outdoor heated pool and Jacuzzi, exercise facilities, free covered parking, airport van. On the San Antonio River downtown, next to La Villita.
Rooms are spacious and colorfully furnished.
Rivercenter A huge downtown hotel, accommodating copious numbers of businesspeople and conferees, adjacent to Rivercenter Mall. Meeting rooms can accommodate 4,400 delegates. Upper-story rooms with bay windows afford an especially panoramic view of street and river life. Its lobbies and sitting areas are virtual museums, and its lovely courtyard is a pleasure to behold. The Menger Bar, patterned after London s House of Lords Pub with loads of cherrywood and beveled mirrors, was reportedly used by Teddy Roosevelt to recruit Texans as Rough Riders for his Cuban expedition.