Fort Worth Stock Show 2027 Hotels: Downtown Is 6 or 7 Minutes From the Arena, and the Hiltons Sell Few Rodeo Nights
By Matt Spaulding · November 11, 2026
Photo: Bob 123ehhdee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Six hotels in downtown Fort Worth would sell all five Stock Show nights we read, and with no traffic each is 7 minutes by car from the arena's rideshare point. Hilton's screens turned down the most nights. Hilton Fort Worth would sell 16 January and 6 February, and the Embassy Suites Fort Worth Downtown only 16 January. In the Stockyards, Hotel Drover would sell all five. The show itself is in the Cultural District. The closest hotels we cover are downtown, about 2 miles east, and in the Stockyards, about 4 miles north.
Every read here was one night on the hotel's own booking engine, on 10 or 11 November 2026, for arrival Friday 15 January and Saturdays 16, 23 and 30 January and 6 February 2027. All were for two adults except Kimpton Harper, where we didn't record the party size. Saturday 16 January would sell at all 16 hotels we read. If a screen won't sell you a night on its own, it may still sell it inside a longer stay, and availability changes daily.
The 2027 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo runs Friday 15 January to Saturday 6 February. The Best of the West Ranch Rodeo opens it on 15 and 16 January at 7:30 p.m. Bulls Night Out is 19 and 20 January, and the FWSSR ProRodeo Tournament starts 22 January. The Championship Finals are Saturday 6 February, also at 7:30 p.m. The rodeo is in Ariat Arena (until this fall, Dickies Arena), 1911 Montgomery Street, next to the Will Rogers Memorial Center at 3401 W. Lancaster Avenue. The naming deal was reported on 26 October, and new signs are expected by the start of 2027.
Downtown Fort Worth, 6 or 7 minutes away
Start with the six whose screens would sell every night we read: The Worthington, Omni Fort Worth, Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown, The Sinclair, AC Hotel Fort Worth Downtown and Kimpton Harper.
The Worthington's Marriott screen showed a $20 Destination Fee per night already inside the rate, and didn't say whether tax applies to it. Kimpton Harper's booking screen adds a 4.5% Texas Green Energy Fee and a 2% Fort Worth PID Fee to the rate each night, plus City Tax 9.8%, State Tax 6.5% and Venue Tax 2%. It also lists a $100 per night hold. The Omni, Sheraton, Sinclair and AC Hotel showed no resort fee on their booking screens. The fees we've read across the metro are in Dallas and Fort Worth resort fees, and how the taxes stack is in Dallas and Fort Worth hotel tax.
Marriott doesn't say whether tax goes on top of its parking prices. Self-parking at the Worthington is $39 a day, with valet at $55. The Sheraton has valet only, $48 a day, and the Sinclair's valet is $57. At the AC Hotel you pay $59 a day whether you park it yourself or hand over the keys.
The Omni has no on-site self-parking we could find. The city garage next door is $22 a vehicle with no in-and-out. Omni's directions page puts overnight valet at $48 plus tax with unlimited in-and-out, or $55 plus tax for an oversized vehicle. Daily valet is $32 with no in-and-out, and Omni says the prices can change without notice. IHG's page gives Kimpton Harper's parking as $45 a day to self-park and $55 a day for valet. The hotel's own site lists 24-hour valet at the Main Street entrance, with in-and-out for overnight guests, and gives no price.
Le Meridien Fort Worth Downtown would sell four of the five. For 23 January its screen read "Not available for check-in", so it wouldn't sell that night on its own. Courtyard Fort Worth Downtown/Blackstone and Aloft Fort Worth Downtown gave that answer for 15 and 23 January and would sell the other three. None of the three showed a resort fee. Valet is $59 a day at Le Meridien and $49 at the Courtyard. The Aloft is the cheapest of the three to leave a car at, $37 a day self or valet, or $14 an hour to self-park.
Hilton Fort Worth's booking screen showed 15, 23 and 30 January as sold out. The Hampton Inn & Suites Fort Worth Downtown, at 1001 Commerce Street, would sell only 16 January, the same as the Embassy Suites. The Hilton and the Embassy Suites are valet only: $69 a day at the Hilton, the highest valet price in this guide, and $59 a night at the Embassy Suites. Both fold a Texas Recovery Fee into the rate Hilton shows, 0.75% at the Hilton and 0.53% at the Embassy Suites, with taxes extra.
The Courtyard Blackstone and the Embassy Suites are a minute closer, 6 minutes from the rideshare point. So is the Ashton Hotel at 610 Main Street, whose nights we didn't read. Every other downtown hotel here is 7.
The Stockyards, 4 miles north
Fort Worth Stockyards hotels are 7 to 9 minutes from the same rideshare point, and a minute more to the Lancaster Avenue side. SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Historic Stockyards is 7. Courtyard Fort Worth Historic Stockyards, Miss Molly's Hotel and Hotel Texas are 8. Hotel Drover and Hyatt Place Fort Worth Historic Stockyards are 9. Drover, Hyatt Place, the Courtyard and the SpringHill showed no resort fee on their booking screens.
Drover's valet is $57.38 per day, tax not stated, and there's paid self-parking elsewhere in the Stockyards with no rate given. Hyatt Place would sell the first four nights and returned "Hotel Not Available" for 6 February, Finals night. Self-parking there starts at $20 a night per car, and Hyatt says prices can rise for special events.
The Courtyard and the SpringHill Suites are both on North Main Street, at 2537 and 2315. Marriott's calendar showed every arrival from 27 December to 6 February unavailable at both. Ignore it: each hotel's room list for 16 January and 6 February showed two room types. We didn't read 15, 23 or 30 January at either. Both charge $25 a day for valet. The SpringHill's self-parking is $10 an hour or $20 a day, and the Courtyard's is $25.
Miss Molly's has no designated parking, just a pay lot behind the buildings next to the hotel with no price stated, and free curbside outside restricted zones. Its booking cart added only the 17% hotel tax, with no resort fee. Hotel Texas's fee and parking couldn't be confirmed. Nights at neither were read.
Host hotels and their deadlines
Four of the 17 host hotels on the show's 2027 list carry downtown or Stockyards names. Their reservation deadlines, earliest first: SpringHill Suites Stockyards by 22 December, TownePlace Suites FW Downtown by 26 December, and the Worthington (listed as "Worthington - Downtown") by 2 January. The Hampton Inn & Suites FW Downtown gives no deadline, only "Valid January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2027".
Parking and rideshare at the grounds
Grounds parking is $20 per vehicle with no in-and-out and no valet, and the show says lots fill quickly on weekends. A trolley runs from the Yellow Lot on Trail Drive. It isn't wheelchair accessible. The show recommends rideshare, with drop-off and pickup at Harley Avenue and Secretariat Drive or on Lancaster Avenue at the Will Rogers Box Office. The arena page puts pickup outside the north end of the building at 3526 Harley Avenue.
Drive from a downtown hotel and you pay its parking and then $20 at the grounds. Where the hotel's parking has no in-and-out, like the Omni's city garage or its $32 daily valet, you pay that again when you come back. Leave the car at the hotel and take a ride instead. Every drive time in this guide assumes clear roads with no event closures, and none counts time to park. We found no 2027 Stock Show bus page. Trinity Metro's newest Stock Show page is from 2022 (the oldest from 2016), and the show's own Trinity Metro page is a dead link, so check ridetrinitymetro.org closer to the show.
The grounds are open 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily, and rodeo doors open an hour before each performance. A rodeo ticket includes grounds admission for that date. Bought in advance, grounds admission alone is $15 for adults and $8 for children 6 to 16, and children 5 and under get in free.
The show's parade page hasn't posted a 2027 date or route for the All-Western Parade downtown. Watching from the route is free, and reserved seating is sold online.
