If you can walk about three blocks with your bags, you are at the light rail/free mall ride station. The mall ride goes up 16th, and passes a number of boutique hotels. A couple of blocks the other way can get you to a La Quinta. If you were interested in the boutique hotels and have a smart phone, I can vouch for an app called "Hotel Tonight" Using it I've scored rooms at nicer hotels for as little as $85 a night. The Curtis, the Oxford, the Omni, the Burnsley and several others show up on that app and are never more than $150 a night. You will see an offer around $200 of a now and then, but that's for a suite. Most of those hotels have a car that will come get you as well.