Where to Stay in Fort Worth: Sundance Square or the Stockyards
By Matt Spaulding · November 12, 2026
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stay downtown if you want Sundance Square's restaurants on foot, and expect to pay to park. More than half the hotels there list only valet. The Stockyards put Billy Bob's and the rodeo a short walk away, and three hotels there have their own self-parking, from $20 a day or night.
We routed every walk and drive on this page on 12 November 2026, for an ordinary day with no closures and no waits at lights.
Downtown hotels, and what they charge to park
From The Sinclair, Autograph Collection it's 67 meters to Sundance Square Plaza, a one-minute walk. The AC Hotel Fort Worth Downtown and the Courtyard by Marriott Fort Worth Downtown/Blackstone are 2 minutes out, and the Embassy Suites by Hilton Fort Worth Downtown, Aloft Fort Worth Downtown, Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel and Kimpton Harper Hotel 3 or 4. Hilton Fort Worth is 5 and Le Meridien Fort Worth Downtown 6. Two of the eleven on our Downtown Fort Worth page are a real walk: the Omni Fort Worth Hotel at 11 minutes and the Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown Hotel at 16.
Six downtown hotels list only a valet rate (our Dallas and Fort Worth parking guide has every hotel on this page), from $48 a day at the Sheraton and $49 at the Courtyard Blackstone up to $69 at the Hilton. The Omni lists only valet too, but has a city garage next door (below). The Sinclair is $57 a day. Le Meridien and the Embassy Suites both charge $59, a day at Le Meridien and a night at the Embassy. None of those pages says whether tax goes on top.
The Aloft is $37 a day either way, or $14 an hour to self-park. Valet at the Worthington and the Kimpton Harper is $55 a day, with self-parking at $39 and $45 (the Harper's figures are IHG's; its own site lists 24-hour valet at the Main Street entrance with no price). At the AC both are $59 a day, so parking it yourself saves nothing.
The Omni has no on-site self-parking that we found, but the city garage next door is $22 a vehicle, with no in-and-out. Omni's directions page lists overnight valet at $48 plus tax with unlimited in-and-out.
Only the Worthington has a flat fee, a $20 Destination Fee shown as included in its booking-screen rate. The Hilton and the Embassy Suites build a Texas Recovery Fee into the rate, 0.75% and 0.53%, with taxes extra. The Kimpton Harper's screen added a 4.5% Texas Green Energy Fee and a 2% Fort Worth PID Fee per night, and listed a $100 per night hold. The other seven showed no fee on the booking screen. The guide to Dallas and Fort Worth resort fees covers how each is charged.
Staying in the Stockyards
Cowtown Coliseum is 257 meters from the Hyatt Place Fort Worth Historic Stockyards on East Exchange Avenue, 3 minutes on foot, and Billy Bob's Texas is 5. Of the other four on our Fort Worth Stockyards page, Miss Molly's Hotel is 4 minutes from the coliseum. Hotel Drover, Autograph Collection and the SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Historic Stockyards are 6, and all three are 6 to 8 minutes from Billy Bob's. Drover checks in only guests 21 and over with a government photo ID. The Courtyard Fort Worth Historic Stockyards is the other way round: 5 minutes from Billy Bob's and 7 from the coliseum. None of them is a walk from Sundance Square. The Stockyards Hotel isn't on our page. Its own site says "Returning 2027," with no month.
Hyatt Place is from $20 a night per car. SpringHill is $20 a day or $10 an hour, and the Courtyard $25 a day. Valet is $25 a day at both of those. None of the three showed a hotel fee when we read their booking screens on 27 October 2026, for the night of 11 November. Hotel Drover's screen showed none either. Valet is the default there, $57.38 a day on Marriott's page, tax not stated. Drover's parking information mentions paid self-parking elsewhere in the Stockyards but gives no rate.
Miss Molly's has no parking of its own. There's a pay lot behind the buildings next door, price not stated, and free curbside parking outside the restricted zones. Seven of its eight rooms use hallway bathrooms, and the rooms have no telephones or televisions. Check-in is 3 to 8 p.m. only. A cancellation request has to arrive 7 days before the reservation date or the full amount is charged, and 20% of the total may be charged to cancel certain reservations. Its booking cart added only the 17% hotel tax.
Getting between them
By car, the downtown hotels are 5 to 7 minutes from Cowtown Coliseum and 6 to 8 from Billy Bob's Texas. From the Stockyards hotels, Fort Worth Central Station is 7 to 9 minutes. If you drive in from downtown for the day, the district's own lots, per fortworthstockyards.com on 11 November 2026, charge $12.50 to self-park Monday to Wednesday, $17.50 Thursday and $22.50 Friday to Sunday, or $32.50 overnight (24 hours), all plus sales tax and a service fee. Premium lots have higher posted rates, and special-event rates are as posted. Valet is $20 Monday to Thursday and $25 Friday to Sunday, and the page lists no overnight valet rate.
Without a car, Trinity Metro's Orange Line serves the Stockyards. It runs from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. every day, about every 15 minutes, and connects at Fort Worth Central Station and TEXRail's North Side Station. Le Meridien and the Hilton are 6 to 7 minutes on foot from Central Station, and so is the Sheraton. The Orange Line's own page prints no fare. Trinity Metro's local bus fare is $2 a ride, and a 1-day local pass is $4, under pricing effective 1 March 2026. We haven't checked which stops the line makes, so look at its map before you plan around one.
Rodeo nights and Billy Bob's
Cowtown Coliseum's calendar had the Stockyards Championship Rodeo at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, plus a Saturday matinee, when we checked. Look at it for your dates. If you park at Hyatt Place, $20 is where its price starts: Hyatt says it can rise for special events. The Stockyards' own site lists the cattle drive daily at 11:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., without saying where along Exchange Avenue to stand.
Billy Bob's Texas, at 2520 Rodeo Plaza, is open every day. On Friday and Saturday it opens 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and again from 6 p.m. until close. Visitors over 18 need government-issued ID, and minors can come with a parent or legal guardian. If you're coming for the Stock Show in January or February, read our Fort Worth Stock Show hotel guide before you pick a side.
