Hotel at a Glance: Best Western Plus Austin Airport Inn & Suites

Situated within 5 miles of both downtown Austin and the airport, this Best Western is a convenient home base for exploring the capital city. The hotel has a slew of amenities, including an outdoor swimming pool and a complimentary hot breakfast.

• Longhorns football: Catch a game at the University of Texas’s colossal Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium (the season starts August 31).
• A night on the town: Sixth Street, a popular nightlife spot lined with restaurants, bars, and dance clubs, is just 5 miles from the hotel.
• Tour the Capitol: Guided and self-guided tours of the Texas Capitol and grounds are available seven days a week.
• Spacious digs: King and queen suites have separate living rooms with pullout sofas.
• Airport shuttle: runs from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Austin, Texas: Proudly Offbeat State Capital and Live-Music Capital of the World

Built in 1888, the pink-granite Texas Capitol building in Austin is the largest state capitol in the country and even taller than the US Capitol in Washington, DC—proof that everything is, indeed, bigger in Texas. Yet Austin stands apart from the rest of the state politically and culturally, a fact that locals seem to revel in. "Keep Austin Weird" is a popular motto here, appearing on bumper stickers and T-shirts. The weirdness manifests itself all over town, where you’ll find a death-metal-themed pizza place, a cathedral made of garbage, and the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, which displays an 1893 World’s Fair stereograph and one of Marilyn Monroe’s cigarette butts. Even nature plays along: each night at dusk (from mid-March to November), an estimated 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from underneath the Congress Avenue Bridge to go hunting for food.

Austin has been dubbed the Live Music Capital of the World thanks to the city's nearly 200 venues, where bands play everything from blues to punk rock. In fact, Travel + Leisure magazine named Austin one of America's Best Music Cities, calling it the "mother ship for indie rock and alternative-country types." Stubb's Bar-B-Q books some of the bigger acts that come to town, including the White Stripes, Johnny Cash, and Snoop Dogg. In addition to the live entertainment taking place on a nightly basis, two massively popular music festivals—South by Southwest and Austin City Limits—draw in huge crowds each year.

The University of Texas brings its share of cultural attractions to the city as well. For starters, the sprawling campus is home to the Blanton Museum of Art, which boasts one of the country's most impressive private collections of old-master paintings. UT-Austin is also where you’ll find the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, dedicated to preserving and exhibiting artifacts related to the 36th president.

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