KEARNEY NEBRASKA? HOTEL FOR A WEEKEND
 

Meeting some friends at a cental location(Kearney)
Would appreciate some info on places to stay. Must include indoor pool, lounge (or nearby bar),reasonable price, and possible pets.

Been a while since we spent the night in Kearney on a fast cross-country drive but.... First it is a small town with a state universty, but I am sure you know that. My memory serves me that there is a chain motel [can't remember which one -- memorable it wasn't!] on the edge of town just off the interstate and a decent chinese restaurant nearby [surprisingly decent actually]. Kearny is famous for being the place where those missile silos were buried in the ground for our national protection... [A missle used to stand in a plaza someplace in town...]There may be a motel that meets your specifications closer to the campus, but my recollection is that Kearney is small. The best source of information for a small town like this that I have found are the AAA guidebooks.

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Randy,<BR>Kearney is booming--I would guess it's one of the fastest growing towns in the state. We stay there often for soccer tournaments, Destination Imagination competition--you name it--it seems to be in Kearney. You can find a dozen good chain hotels--the hotels that have an indoor pool plus a lounge would include the Holiday Inn and the Ramada Inn. I know the Holiday's pool has waterslides. If you don't care about the lounge part, Kearney has a nice Hampton Inn, Country Inn and Suites and Hol. Inn Express. You wouldn't go wrong with any of them.

Kearney is also the location of the Great Migration museum that is shown in the movie &quot;About Schmidt&quot;. Well worth the side trip to see it! The escalator ride, just like in the movie, is cool!