Courtyard Des Moines Ankeny

Nice and clean hotel. Great room especially for families as it was nice and big. Checkin could have been a little smoother and faster but overall nice place to stay.

This review will only be for the conference rooms and lobby.
This is a great place for conferences. My company has been going here for a couple of years, and it had been a great experience. There is one super, huge conference room that can be divided up into (4) smaller conferences rooms with the use of folding partition walls. The small rooms have an occupancy limit of (88) people but ~(50) is s good number. The rooms are clean and have very tall ceiling ~20ft.
The staff is very helpful. They setup the rooms how we request them such as lunch tables or presentation tables. They are also very quick to respond to any problems that may arise. As we were setting up for our latest conference, we noticed that the image from the projector was shaking. All of the rooms have their own built-​in projectors that are suspended from the ceiling. Apparently, this room just got a new projector that weighed more than the last one. So when the AC kicked on, it created a slight vibration in the image. The staff was quick to find a temporary solution. They turned off one of the units in the room and turned the other unit down (each room has (2) thermostats). The temporary solution worked; the image stopped shaking, and the room was still comfortable. The manager did say that he was going to have their site maintenance guy add some braces to prevent any future vibrations.
In addition to the conferences rooms, the restrooms on the first floor were very clean.
The food that was served for the conference was very good for conference room food. It was lasagna that was made in-​house by their chef.
Lastly, there is a huge market place next to the hotel’s front desk that sells food, drinks, beer, wine, miscellaneous toiletries, and more! It is the best stocked hotel store I have ever seen.
Overall, a great hotel for conferences.

Decent rooms.
Good showers, beds and WiFi.
Friendly front desk.
Those are all the things I care about.
I’ll add a star on this one because the hotel is not siting right on top of the highway. It’s quiet. And that’s good!

It may be a part of a big hotel chain, but I didn’t feel that way at all while staying there. The staff was very friendly — my last name was spelled wrong on the reservation, but they searched and searched until they found it. They even offered to put us up in another hotel room since this one was booked.
BUT, after finding the reservation, we stayed in a king-​size room that was beautiful. The bed faced a big picture window and every other part of the room was designed to not look like an ordinary hotel room. Plus, for the service and room we got, the rate was relatively cheap.
If you’re looking for a place in Ankeny, be sure to check this one out.

One of the nicer Courtyard properties that I’ve stayed at. Despite a small flood at one end of the building due to a broken pipe, the hotel was very nice.
The only downside — the breakfast buffet left alot to be desired. When freshly made the scrambled eggs were probably pretty good but once they’d been sitting in the chafer for awhile, not so much. Breakfast was included in our room rate, if I’d had to pay the $ 9.95 directly, I probably would have passed.