Where do I even start.... First of all, I had never been to Austin and booked at the Residence simply because it seemed to be in a good area for tourist attractions and wasn't in the direct vicinity of the ACL Festival where prices were significantly inflated. I wasn't totally sure if this was the right option or not as we had tickets to the festival but took a chance anyways.
Firstly... it ended up being the perfect location due to the huge availability of rentable scooters out front! We were able to get quite close to the festival in about 15 minutes using the scooters and in 7 days only got an uber when we needed to get to and from the airport.
Staying here means you are exactly between 2 amazing streets as well. 2 Blocks away from 6th which is where the endless stream of bars and music exists in Austin, 2 blocks from 2nd (Also known as Willie Nelson bvd) where youll find the ACL store, many shops and the Moody theatre and only a 10 minute scooter ride from South congress where there are incredible boot and hat shops, bars, restaurants and the famouns S Congress bat bridge where you can see bats take off every night for 6 months of the year.
We also enjoyed the huge continental breakfast offered by the hotel, as well as the $25/day discount in the restaurant which kept our expenses for the week quite low. Every meal we had st the restaurant was wonderful and I would like to give a special shout out to our frequent server Tony who took incredible care of us daily!
