clean, friendly hotel. close to Longwood Gardens. Longwood Gardens is beautiful and worth a visit. Also, a good base for other Brandywine Valley attractions. We always drive the back roads through Lancaster County to get here, which allows great views of the Amish and their farms.

The hotel was very nice except for the HARD beds. They supposedly have "adjustable" mattresses and believe me, they are NOT. The breakfast and service was great, but the beds are so hard, you are miserable at night. We checked with the front desk and were told that these were new in July 2011. Supposedly Hilton cannot get the company to replace them. For the price we paid, it was not a good experience. I would have stayed at the Fairfield had I known how close they were to Longwood Gardens. Sorry Hilton folks, a gift card to Starbucks did not make up for the awful HARD mattresses.

We stayed over for New Year's Eve night while visiting Longwood Gardens. The hotel is located less than a mile from the parking lot of Longwood Gardens and on the same side of the road. It can't be more convenient than that!! The front desk staff was extremely friendly and the night before our stay, one of the staff called to confirm if we wanted a smoking or non-smoking room just to make sure!! That has never happened to us before in all of our many hotel stays. When we checked in she remembered who we were and we even got upgraded to a jacuzzi room for no additional charge. After about an hour after checking in she called to make sure everything was okay and told us how to use the sleep number bed system they have. We were very impressed with the her and her name was Tina and she really went out of her way to make us feel truly at home. The room itself was large, the bathroom was large. The bed was just perfect, Loved the adjustable number system, wish I could have figured out a way to sneak that out the back door and take it home. The room was also very clean. Neutrogena products in the bathroom. The entire hotel was clean. They have a breakfast area downstairs in the lobby for $9.95 each but we didn't use it. Microwave, refrigerator and coffeemaker were in the room. We didn't use the pool or exercise room but did check them out and they both looked really nice. Wish we had more time to enjoy it. Applebee's is located right in the same parking lot and very convenient to just walk there for dinner, which we did. For it being New Year's Eve it was very quite and we didn't hear any noise at all in the hotel. Since we had a smoking room we were located on the third floor. This is a perfect place to stay to visit the Brandywine Valley & Longwood Gardens.

Kennett Square is a small - aside from a few B&B's, there aren't too many accommodation options, but the Hilton Garden Inn is perfectly adequate, and very convenient if you're visiting Longwood Gardens which is just up the road from the hotel. There are nice restaurants all over the area, plus every kind of fast food. Our room was very clean and quiet - the standard coffee maker, microwave and mini-fridge, plus all-day coffee in the lobby. The bathroom had Neutrogena toiletries and plenty of space around the sink. If you're a smoker, ask for a ground floor room: at the end of the hall is an exit which has a smoking area - just use your keycard to get back in - nice if you just want to run out in your bathrobe!