What's up with you Trip Advisor Reviewers who have made this hotel the Number 1 TA pick in Denver (Really?)
I chose this hotel based on it being the number 1 hotel in Denver on TA at the time I booked our hotel. I thought it would be conveniently located to the Airport as it had a free shuttle. 
I called the shuttle service once we arrived at the airport and were waiting for our bags. They told me to call back once we got our bags. So I called back in 10 min. once we had our bags and they said the shuttle would be there in 30 min. I asked why they didn't just send it when I called 10 min. ago and they said that was not their policy. We waited outside in 40 mile an hour winds for 40 min. for the shuttle. From the Airport it was a 20 min. drive to the hotel. 
We got all our bags out of the shuttle and went to check in (the desk staff was not very friendly or helpful). I had, as always requested a high floor room away from the elevator. Our first room was beds (head side) up against the elevator wall. After being in the room for five minutes we heard the (ding) of the elevator passing right where our heads would be that night (not to mention that it sounded like a roller coaster going by). They did switch our room but didn't seem very happy to do it. Although we were the ones inconvenienced by having to bring all our bags down to get the key and back up to a different room.
Our second room had pubic hairs all over the tub and a few hairs in the bed I slept in. I found the hotel room small and dirty. The swamp cooler was extremely loud and the hotel walls were thin.
The fitness room should be labeled a cardio room as it only had a few low quality cardio machines (no free weights or Nautilus equipment).
The best thing about this hotel was that is was next door to an Uno Pizza restaurant which we ate at for dinner that night.
We signed up in advance to take the shuttle back to the airport the next morning and all went smoothly (a little less than 20 min. to the airport early in the morning). That and the fact that I did feel safe at this hotel was the only reasons I gave this hotel a star at all.
I would never stay at this hotel again and I would question whether or not to stay at a Country Inn & Suites as this was my first experience and a terrible one at that.
Downtown Denver is about the same drive time from the airport as this hotel. After tipping the shuttle driver both ways and the inconvenience of the shuttle I suggest renting a car for $20 and driving yourself to a hotel in the downtown area. We also stayed at the Downtown Denver Hilton Garden Inn which I highly recommend and it was not that much more expensive than this hotel.