Free Wi-Fi high-tech extras and a crackerjack downtown location help make the Courtyard New Haven at Yale a top-ranked pick among our guests. A lovely lobby with a fireplace and high-tech media pods welcomes guests to the eight-story Courtyard. All 207 rooms are non-smoking and feature free Wi-Fi flat-panel TVs premium cable channels refrigerators CD/MP3 players and coffeemakers. Rise and dine at the hotel restaurant where breakfast is served daily. Road warriors are happy to know there's a business center. Leisure guests meanwhile appreciate the exercise room outdoor patio and cocktail lounge. Laundry facilities and express check-out offer added convenience. Parking is available. The Courtyard is on Whaley Avenue where it merges with Broadway two blocks from the Yale University campus. It's walking distance from area shops and restaurants and half-a-mile from Trinity Church the New Haven Green and the Chapel Street Historic District. Visitors can catch a show at the Shubert Theatre also half-a-mile away. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and the Connecticut Children's Museum are both one mile from the hotel. Union Station with service to New York City is also one mile away. Shopaholics can browse the stores two miles down the road at Westville Village. The beach at Silver Sands State Park and the carousel at Lighthouse Point Park are both 20 minutes south. Tweed New Haven Regional Airport is five miles south; Hartford's Bradley International Airport is 50 miles north and the New York City airports are within 80 miles.