Waco, United States

Hotel 1928

Price per night from$348.68

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Style

Moreish revival

Setting

Downtown treasure

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At Hotel 1928 in downtown Waco, Chip and Joanna Gaines have adapted a Texan classic for the modern day. The master renovators have stayed true to their source material, with rooms designed around the Moorish revival building’s historic features, and a brasserie serving time-tested Southern classics. The library and rooftop restaurant are modern innovations, but both feel right at home in this Texan take on the Twenties — as indeed will you.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

33, including two suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in is at 4pm. Both are flexible, with advance notice and subject to availability.

More details

Rates are room only, but an à la carte breakfast is served at the Brasserie for around $10–$25 a dish, and you can pick up morning pastries at the Café.

Also

Some Premium Franklin King and Franklin Double Queen Rooms have been adapted for guests with limited mobility. There’s ramp or elevator access to all spaces, including the restaurant and bar.

At the hotel

Library, rooftop terrace, boutique and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, TV, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, clothes steamer, coffee- and tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Le Labo bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Columbus Suite’s living room is an inviting spot to make inroads into your ‘to be read’ list. If you’re rolling in with your whole entourage, swing for the Washington, which has space for 12.

Spa

There’s no spa, but in larger rooms such as the Columbus Suite or the Washington, staff can arrange in-room massages and beauty treatments from local therapists on request.

Packing tips

Leave as many screens as you like at home — between the book collection, chessboards and domino sets, this place is set up well for a digital detox.

Also

Spend some time exploring the hotel’s historical quirks, keeping an eye out for the original terrazzo tiling, the bank teller windows turned feature wall, and the memorial to late local author Larry McMurtry, whose book collection fills the library.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs up to 50lbs are welcome for a nightly fee of $35 each (up to two a room). They must be leashed and can't go in the restaurants. You’ll need to sign a damage waiver at check-in and there’s a $250 fee if a complaint is made about your pup. See more pet-friendly hotels in Waco.

Children

All ages are welcome. There are double queen room and connecting options, and the Columbus Suite has a double sofa-bed. For larger families, the Washington Suite sleeps up to 12.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

A forest-green booth in the Brasserie feels a suitably sultry spot to nurse a barrel-aged Old Fashioned. On mild evenings, make for a sofa out on Bertie’s rooftop terrace.

Dress Code

Reined in roaring Twenties — you can skip the cloche hat and fringed hem, but a little sparkle won’t go amiss.

Hotel restaurant

You'll find a Texan take on comforting classics at the Brasserie, where burnished gold and broken-in leather lean into a sense of bygone glamor. Breakfast might be a crab cake benedict with Old Bay hollandaise; lunch, a fried green tomato BLT. And for dinner, things don’t get much more Waco than a Dr Pepper-brined pork chop with chuckwagon beans. 

Bertie’s on the Rooftop has a seasonally changing menu full of fine-tuned classics. The restaurant, which spills out onto a huge city-gazing terrace, takes its name from one of the building’s original architects. Raise a glass to Herbert as you take in Waco from above and tuck into your Texan filet mignon or Maine lobster tagliatelle. 

Set next to the lobby, the Café is an all-day spot for coffee, specialty drinks, pastries and sandwiches. Take your pumpkin bread and iced tea tonic to go, or slide onto a Chesterfield banquette with a paperback from the library.

Hotel bar

House specialties at the Brasserie bar are your cue to slow down and savor. The Old Fashioned here is barrel aged for 90 days, and the signature That’s the Jam cocktail is ever evolving, pairing Reposado tequila with a seasonal fruit compote. Throw in the moreish bar bites and local craft beers on tap, and you’re set to linger all night.

Last orders

Breakfast at the Brasserie is from 8am–11am (brunch until 4pm on weekends), lunch from 11am–4pm, dinner from 4pm–9pm (10pm Friday and Saturday). Bertie’s serves dinner, 5pm–10pm Sunday to Thursday; till 10pm Saturday and Sunday. The Café is open 7am–7pm.

Room service

You can order from a dedicated menu up to your room from 8am to 9pm Sunday to Thursday, and till 10pm Friday and Saturday.

Location

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Address
Hotel 1928
701 Washington Avenue
Waco
76701
United States

Hotel 1928 is set in a historic building in the heart of downtown Waco.

Planes

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas Love Field and Austin-Bergstrom are each around a two-hour drive from the hotel. Alternatively, flights from Dallas Fort-Worth touch down at Waco Regional Airport, which is around 15 minutes away by road from the hotel.

Automobiles

There’s limited street parking available nearby. Otherwise, the hotel has an overnight valet parking service for $28 a night.

Worth getting out of bed for

Waco is the heartland of the Gaines’ Magnolia empire — explore their curated homeware and design shops at Magnolia Market at the Silos. Across Cameron Park’s hundreds of acres, you’ll find beauty spots blooming with Texan bluebonnets, a zoo, and hiking and biking trails that wind their way up to bluffs with panoramic views of the Bosque and Brazos Rivers. For a taste of Waco’s history, check out the Dr Pepper Museum — the drink was invented in the city way back in the 1880s.

Local restaurants

Opal’s Oysters brings polished seafood and coastal summertime vibes to downtown Waco. Czech restaurant and brewery Pivovar puts a Texan twist on Central European classics, best paired with one of their traditional pilsners. If you need an extra hit of the Gaines’ home-from-home style, head to Magnolia Table for their soul-nourishing, seasonal dishes.

Local cafés

Dichotomy has you covered for craft coffee in downtown. Over at Magnolia Market, pick up a box of Silos Baking Co’s famous cupcakes, then head to Magnolia Press Coffee Co for a cup of joe.

Local bars

At family-run wine bar Marie’s, they’re serious oenophiles without the stuffiness — it’s the sort of friendly spot where you’ll feel like a regular from your first sip. One Day Bar serves playful craft cocktails in a space that feels like you’re hanging out in your coolest friend’s loft apartment.

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this near-centenarian hotel in Texas and unpacked their scented candles and seasonal homewares, a full account of their book-filled break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel 1928 in Waco…

Documenting their renovation projects, Chip and Joanna Gaines have inspired homebodies the world over to have a go at reinventing their spaces. But it’s time to down tools, DIYers — at Hotel 1928 in Waco, the hard work’s been done and the Fixer Upper phenoms have rolled out the welcome mat.

Historic interiors have been transformed, each room’s timeless furniture hand-chosen by Joanna. Coffee’s up at the all-day café; take yours down to the library, where cozy wingbacks and a vast vintage book collection all but demand you put your feet up. In fact, the only fixing you’ll need to do round here is of your dinner plans — shrimp and grits in the glamorous brasserie, or filet mignon as you take in the city views from the rooftop terrace. This boutique stay might be a magnet for home improvement buffs, but they’ll be hard pressed to find any to make.

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