Hotels Near Reliant Stadium (NRG Stadium): The Wingate Is 7 Minutes Away on Foot
By Matt Spaulding · November 9, 2026
Photo: https://www.cbp.gov/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wingate Houston near Reliant Park/Medical Center is 7 minutes and 510 meters on foot from Reliant Stadium. Wyndham Houston near NRG Park/Medical Center is next at 10 minutes, 730 meters, then Holiday Inn Houston Reliant Park Area at 11 minutes, 789 meters. Of the hotels we timed, ten are within a 20-minute walk, and all ten are in our Reliant Park hub.
The Texans say the stadium was named NRG Stadium from 2014 until August 2026 and has gone back to its original name, so Reliant Stadium is what we call it. Some hotel names haven't caught up: the Wyndham, SpringHill, Comfort Suites, Quality Inn and Hampton still say NRG. The Wingate, Holiday Inn, Residence Inn and Courtyard have switched to Reliant Park.
Each walk is a normal-day foot route we measured on 28 October 2026 to one point on the stadium, not to a gate, and it knows nothing about game-day closures. We didn't check availability for any night.
Nine of the ten showed no fee on the booking screen. We read eight of them on 28 October for the night of Tuesday 17 November, one room and two adults, and the Comfort Suites cart on 4 November. The tenth, the Quality Inn, we never read. For fees at other Houston hotels, see our Houston resort fees guide.
Houston's hotel tax is 17%. The Wingate's and Wyndham's screens split it into 6% state and 7% city, plus a 4% line the Wingate calls County Occupancy Tax and the Wyndham calls Occupancy Tax. IHG's screens at its three hotels here show no breakdown, and ticking 'Includes taxes and fees' raised the price by 17% and nothing else. The Comfort Suites cart came to the rate plus 17%.
7 to 14 minutes
The Wingate is at 8600 Kirby Drive. Its own page mentions a free shuttle to Texas Medical Center. We found no published parking price, so ask the hotel before you drive.
The Wyndham, at 8686 Kirby, lists free on-site parking. Its own page, as we read it in October, excludes the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and major events at Reliant Stadium, and it prints no price for those days. That page wouldn't load for us on 9 November.
IHG's page for the Holiday Inn, at 8111 Kirby, listed on-site parking at $10/day with in-and-out privileges when we read it on 28 October. We don't know whether that rate holds on a game day.
Comfort Suites Houston near Medical Center- NRG Stadium is 12 minutes and 872 meters out, at 1055 McNee Road. Choice's page for it charges $5 per room per stay to park, paid at check-in, one vehicle per room.
The Quality Inn & Suites NRG Park - Medical Center is 14 minutes on foot (1,084 meters), at 2364 South Loop West. We never read its booking screen, so we can't tell you whether it charges a fee.
15 to 20 minutes
The Residence Inn by Marriott Houston Medical Center Reliant Park is the fourth of these on Kirby Drive, at 7807: 15 minutes and 1,153 meters from the stadium. Self-park is $9/day, and no valet is listed.
Two are on South Main Street, where the street address put the hotel in the middle of the road, so we placed both on the map by the hotel's name instead. The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston S - Medical Ctr Area, at 9300, is 16 minutes (1,160 meters) and lists on-site parking at $7/day. Staybridge Suites Houston - Medical Center, at 9000, is 18 minutes (1,344 meters). IHG lists self-parking there at $10 a day.
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Houston Medical Center/NRG Park, at 1400 Old Spanish Trail, is also 18 minutes out (1,351 meters). Self-park there is $15/day, with no valet listed.
The farthest of the ten is the Courtyard by Marriott Houston Medical Center Reliant Park, at 7702 Main Street: 20 minutes, 1,457 meters. Marriott's overview doesn't list its parking, so ask the hotel.
The Hampton: 28 minutes
Hampton Inn & Suites Houston Medical Center NRG Park, at 1715 Old Spanish Trail, is 28 minutes and 2,134 meters from the stadium on foot, the nearest hotel we timed outside the Reliant Park hub. Unlike the nine screens above, its booking screen showed a charge: a mandatory 0.43% of the stay, included in the price Hilton shows, plus tax. Self-park is $12/day, and valet is not available. From the Hampton, the walk to the Dryden/TMC station on the Red Line is 24 minutes (1,774 meters), four minutes less than the walk to the stadium.
Parking at the stadium
The Texans publish no parking price. Their parking page sorts the lots by color and by the street you reach them from: Blue and Red are off Kirby Drive and Maroon and Orange off Fannin Street, among others. Lot gates open 4 hours before kickoff, 5 for Platinum. You need a game ticket or a tailgate ticket to enter the property. The team's arrival page says there is no overnight parking after the game, and that the lots are cleared in 50 to 60 minutes.
The Wingate, Wyndham, Holiday Inn and Residence Inn are all on Kirby Drive. RODEOHOUSTON's parking page, in its Gate 9 drop-off notes, says "Kirby Drive is closed at 9 p.m. on weekdays and 6 p.m. on weekends." It doesn't say which stretch, and that page is from the 2026 Rodeo. If you're driving in during the Rodeo, ask your hotel whether the closure changes the way in. Nothing we read says whether any hotel's parking rate holds on a game day.
The Kinder's Texas Bowl prints its own price on Reliant Park's event page: $25 plus tax per space at the gate, with no in-and-out access, electronic or card payment only.
RODEOHOUSTON's parking page still carries last year's prices, from 2026: the Yellow lot at $25 with tax not included, and the 610 and OST lots at $25, prepaid and cashless.
METRO's Reliant Park page lists the Fannin South Park & Ride at $5 a day outside special events. For events, METRO says it runs $25 to $50, credit or debit card only, with a round-trip rail wristband for each passenger. The Rodeo's 2026 page put Fannin South at $25, with free METRORail passes for everyone in the car. The Texas Bowl page gives no Fannin South price.
Getting there without a car
Take the Red Line to Stadium Park/Astrodome, the station METRO's Reliant Park page names for the park. Boarding costs $1.25. METRO runs more frequent trains during Texans home games, and the Texans' stadium FAQ says METRORail runs for all of them.
The Red Line comes every 6 minutes on weekdays and every 12 on weekends (METRO's METRORail page, read 28 October). The Texas Bowl page says trains run every 12 minutes, METRO's weekend figure, though the bowl is on a Thursday. From downtown Houston, METRO puts the ride at about 27 minutes, changing from the Green or Purple Line to the southbound Red Line.
Two hotels in our Medical Center and Museum District hub sit beside the Dryden/TMC station. The Houston Marriott Medical Center/Museum District is 1 minute and 86 meters on foot from it, and The Westin Houston Medical Center/Museum District is 2 minutes and 140 meters. The Red Line runs south from there to Stadium Park/Astrodome, but we have no ride time or stop count for that leg. On foot, the Westin is 50 minutes from the stadium and the Marriott 52.
Marriott's booking screen showed a $25/night Destination Fee at the Marriott, included in the rate it shows. Its fee panel, read 5 November, lists a daily round-trip Metro Rail ticket for Bonvoy Gold members and above. The Westin's screen showed no fee.
The Texans' arrival page puts the rideshare and taxi drop-off at Yellow 35, gate 16B off Main St., and the Texas Bowl page gives the same place. The bowl's page also describes an accessibility shuttle from the Fannin light rail stop to near the Kroger Gate at Reliant Stadium.
Reliant Stadium and Reliant Park events, as listed on 9 November 2026
These come from the Texans' schedule, Reliant Park's events calendar, the Kinder's Texas Bowl site and rodeohouston.com. Times are Central.
Thursday 19 November, 7:15 p.m.: Texans vs Indianapolis Colts, on Prime Video. Sunday 29 November, noon: Texans vs Baltimore Ravens, on CBS. Sunday 20 December, noon: Texans vs Jacksonville Jaguars, on CBS. Reliant Park's calendar lists the same three dates with no kickoff times. Houston First puts the Medical Center/NRG submarket at 48% occupancy in December 2025, the lowest month we have a figure for.
The Week 18 home game against the Tennessee Titans has no date yet. The Texans say the date, kickoff time and broadcast are set by the NFL after Week 17.
Thursday 31 December 2026, 6:30 p.m.: the Kinder's Texas Bowl, Big 12 vs SEC, on ESPN, with the teams not yet named. The 6:30 p.m. kickoff is the bowl's own, and Reliant Park's listing still says time TBA.
Tuesday 2 March to Sunday 21 March 2027: the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, per rodeohouston.com. The Rodeo is not on Reliant Park's events list. Houston First says the Rodeo drove about 75% occupancy in the submarket in 2024, and the submarket ran 72.8% in March 2025. No source we read showed hotels selling out or setting minimum stays.
Reliant Park's calendar gives dates only, with no times and no building. Disney On Ice and Nutcracker Market run 12 to 15 November, and Usher and Chris Brown are listed for 24 November. In 2027 it has Monster Jam on 6 to 7 February and 13 February, then HYROX on 1 to 4 April. When we read the same calendar on 28 October, it also had Banana Ball (Texas Tailgaters vs Savannah Bananas) on 22 and 23 May 2027.
