Best Hotels With a Bar in North Richland Hills

Where the evening actually happens

A coffee-and-cocktail counter is how Hyatt Place Fort Worth/Hurst runs its bar, useful for a traveler whose schedule is still off from a TEXRail delay and wants a drink at an hour when a normal bar would have closed. It sits nine minutes by taxi from Trinity Lakes Station, the same distance as Candlewood Suites DFW West - Hurst, whose bar comes paired with a full in-suite kitchen rather than a dining room, a different kind of evening depending on whether cooking or ordering sounds better after the ride in from the platform.

A dining room built for the conference center next door is where Hilton Garden Inn Dallas at Hurst keeps its bar, eight minutes by taxi from the station, which makes it the pick for a business trip where the evening drink is part of the same building as the day's meetings. Both La Quinta properties, DFW Airport West-Glade and Fort Worth NE Mall, add a bar to their restaurant and free breakfast combination, seven to nine minutes from the station depending on which one, each with an indoor pool and hot tub to fill the hour before dinner rather than an empty lobby.

An actual nightclub next to the bar makes Radisson Hotel Fort Worth North-Fossil Creek the outlier of the group, nine minutes by taxi from Fort Worth Stockyards, the closest this corridor gets to a night out rather than a nightcap. At $63 a night it undercuts most of the others on price while offering the liveliest evening option on this list, backed by a spa and hot tub for the day after a later night than the rest of this corridor tends to see, and room service for whoever skips the nightclub entirely.

Holiday Inn Fort Worth - Alliance and Four Points by Sheraton Fort Worth North round out the group with straightforward hotel bars, no nightclub or conference center attached, just a place to sit down after a day that started or ended on the TEXRail platform. Both sit a five to nine minute walk from a named nearby restaurant, Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar and Twin Peaks respectively, for anyone who wants a change of scenery before returning to the hotel bar. Neither one sits close to Trinity Lakes Station, so both suit a Fort Worth-focused trip more than a quick TEXRail connection.

Freeway corridors like this one rarely develop a nightlife scene of their own, and North Richland Hills/Smithfield is no exception: the bars here exist because the hotels built them, not because a neighborhood grew up around drinking and dining. Radisson leans hardest into that gap with an actual nightclub attached to its restaurant, while the rest keep things closer to a quiet lobby bar meant for winding down rather than going out, which suits most travelers passing through on a TEXRail connection.