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El Paso Slideshow
Top Hotels in El Paso
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Camino Real El Paso
167 reviews -
El Paso Marriott
83 reviews -
Chase Suite Hotel El Paso
48 reviews -
Wyndham El Paso Airport
118 reviews
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Radisson Hotel El Paso Airport
54 reviews
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Holiday Inn El Paso-Airport I-10
46 reviews
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Holiday Inn El Paso-Sunland & I-10 W.
130 reviews
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Embassy Suites El Paso
96 reviews -
La Quinta Inn El Paso Lomaland
39 reviews
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Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham - El Paso
65 reviews
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Hilton Garden Inn El Paso
75 reviews
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BEST WESTERN Airport Inn El Paso
55 reviews
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La Quinta Inn El Paso Cielo Vista
36 reviews
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El Paso West Travelodge
30 reviews
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Ramada Suites El Paso
45 reviews
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Days Inn El Paso East
54 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express El Paso - Central
56 reviews
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La Quinta Inn & Suites El Paso Bartlett
25 reviews
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La Quinta Inn & Suites El Paso East
26 reviews
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Homewood Suites El Paso Airport
15 reviews
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Hyatt Place El Paso Airport
89 reviews
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Hampton Inn El Paso-Airport
64 reviews
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Quality Inn & Suites El Paso
36 reviews
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Fairfield Inn & Suites El Paso
28 reviews -
Travelodge La Hacienda Airport El Paso
45 reviews
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Americas Best Value Inn El Paso
9 reviews
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Courtyard By Marriott El Paso Airport
28 reviews
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Residence Inn El Paso
33 reviews
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Microtel Inn & Suites El Paso West / Anthony
20 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites I-10 East El Paso
33 reviews
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Microtel Inn & Suites El Paso Airport
58 reviews
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Lone Star Inn El Paso
1 review
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Microtel Inn & Suites El Paso
18 reviews
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Comfort Suites El Paso
20 reviews
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Motel 6 El Paso-Airport-Fort Bliss
11 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Suites El Paso
8 reviews
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Econo Lodge Inn & Suites El Paso
11 reviews
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Days Inn El Paso
9 reviews
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Best Western Sunland Park Inn El Paso
8 reviews
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Sleep Inn El Paso
8 reviews
El Paso
Travel Blogs from El Paso, United States
Evening of Trouble & Beauty
This is a top pick! ... many: femicide in Juarez that's spreading through Mexico. She and novelist Stella Pope Duarte addressed the issue at El Paso Community College, following a Borderland debut screening of the film Border Echoes, the movie which narrates the investigation ...
Actually crossing over the International Bridge
This is a top pick! ... ;sola for the first time recently. Not so many years ago, I had never walked into Mexico. This entry will simply record the experience of crossing from El Paso USA into Juarez MX. For details on each step of the sequence, click on the ...
Adopt-a-Farmworker-Family Xmas
This is a top pick! This month's project: playing "Santa" to a Farmworker family. When a hometown family sent money to the Border with me to sponsor a needy family (instead of exchanging gifts with each other), I adopted a family of seven: parents, their 15 ...
Personal Info: Our Lives in El Paso
This is a top pick! ... a mountain across the street and bordered by an arroyo behind our property. The landscape here is desert/mountain with lots of blue sky. El Paso is "The Sun City" and combats my typical "winter blues" nicely. The night cityscape is a bowl of jewel lights ...
More on Las Americas and Our Big Project!
This is a top pick! Well, El Paso is the poorest major metropolitan area in Texas, and the fifth poorest city in the U.S.! Nevertheless, thousands of immigrants pass through here each year, many of them unaccompanied children who are fleeing abuse, neglect and/or ...
Saying Hasta Luego
This is a top pick! We enjoyed warm farewells from several new friends in El Paso. It is nice to look forward to returning here someday: to a community of people and a place we have gotten to know--though I often realize that we've just scratched the surface and there's much ...
ASARCO: pollution on the Border
This is a top pick! Environmental pollution was a concern I had about living in El Paso. Indeed, the ASARCO smokestack was one of the first landmarks I noticed on the skyline. ASARCO is a copper smelting plant that operated for years here and is trying to start up once ...
El Paso's Sun Bowl Parade=Travel destination
This is a top pick! ... in the parade that draws folks from across the region to kick off the holiday season. Patriots applauded representatives from El Paso's Fort Bliss, the US Border Patrol and the Junior ROTC units. Civic organizations, local politicians, the city's ...
Border Peace Presence
This is a top pick! There's a weekly demonstration for peace in El Paso, giving us opportunity to show our commitment to ending the Iraq War. It meets at noon for an hour each Friday at the intersection facing the federal and county court buildings. That hour just flies by, ...
Week 2: When Need Meets Gift
This is a top pick! ... international woman-originating in Paris, France and having served in Lebanon-Sr. Liliane was trailed by a French cinematographer who was in El Paso to film her for a television documentary for European broadcast. Since we were part of her day, we signed ...
Lovely, historic Secondo Barrio: "The Second Ward"
This is a top pick! ... Paso Del Sur website] "the destruction of the heart of the Segundo Barrio, both a living community and the oldest neighborhood of El Paso. To replace the neighborhood with a 'big-box retail store' (Wal-Mart or Target), a strip mall and service ...
Ruben Garcia
This is a top pick! ... but informative at this website: Columban. I encourage you to look at it. I'm looking forward to meeting him as part of my life in El Paso. "I don't want to be defined that way. I don't want to be in a country that takes 12 million human beings who are ...
Annunciation House
This is a top pick! If all goes on schedule, we'll arrive at Annunciation House today. You can view the slide show on their website by clicking on the "Border Reality" button. Lots of data on their site. All worth reading. I won't repeat it. This may be my last entry ...
A Dubuque German-American on immigration
This is a top pick! Different eras, different homelands, but sharing hard work and dreams by TIM TRENKLE SPECIAL TO THE Des Moines REGISTER The storefront next to City Hall advertised Old World sausage. Family had plied the German method of an ancient recipe, ...
Your Texan passport to Asia. Apply within.
This is a top pick! ... levels. The temple is only 10 blocks from my place. I attend religiously. And I recommend it. This movement's popularity in El Paso shatters my stereotypes of Texan's "King of the Hill"-cartoon lifestyles. What's more, they can 'do' martial arts ...
Why it is tricky to write this blog
This is a top pick! The anti-immigration sentiment in this country is so intense, that people have been arrested for providing humanitarian aid to undocumented immigrants . I oppose this mentality. That opposition is a criterion I use to determine which activities I will ...
Nature in the Southwest
This is a top pick! ... 24, 2007 in The New York Times Kelly, Wyo. In the debate over how to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States -armed patrols, electronic surveillance, prison time for first offenders and a 700-mile-long 15-foot-high fence - few ...
Teaching English as a Second Language
This is a top pick! In my Midwestern life, people politely asked me (when they heard of my Border Plans)"What will you DO there?" Since I didn't really know that, I'd always answer, "Well, I'll probably teach ESL," and that seemed to satisfy them. So, when the opportunity ...
How's your Spanish coming along?
This is a top pick! ... . In Eagle Pass, TX Spanish is a necessity while English is not needed. Even the Chinese restauranteurs speak Spanish! Here in El Paso, you can get along speaking only Spanish AND you could also get along fine speaking only English. The border is ...
Close Encounter with TX politics
This is a top pick! ... places where he can make a difference for the poor. Read his new issue of Texas on the Brink: How Texas Ranks among the 50 States (you need PDF viewer) Summary: Texas isn't doing too well compared to the other 49 states. You may be suprised just ...
The Union Depot in El Paso, TX
This is a top pick! The area around Union Depot is becoming quite the urban nite hotspot with new upscale bars and restaurants. That is not my scene, but I really love the architecture of the building! I'm even very tempted to try taking the train. ...
The El Paso Zoo
This is a top pick! Lots of fun at the El Paso zoo, even more fun in a few months when the new exhibits open. The highlight is the sea lion exhibit/show. Enjoy the ...
blowing it with NPR but May Day happy anyway
This is a top pick! ... . All I can say is: Thank God for tape; I'm glad it wasn't live. It wasn't my day. A couple hundred marched through El Paso even though winds were roaring gusts of 45 MPH, the air filled with dust and blowing sand. The little rally set the right ...
"Illegals" or "my friends"?
This is a top pick! I am so lucky to be able to assist many poor people in El Paso, among them are the so-called "illegal aliens" so maligned by the media. How can a person be illegal? Who makes those rules? They become my friends and, as I prepare to leave in a few weeks, ...
A visit to the local CBS studios
This is a top pick! I was promoting the Wheels of Justice stop in El Paso on the local CBS affiliate today, so got my photo taken with the new young journalist/newscaster in town. Skylar and I had met several weeks back at the Maryknoll house: Casa Puente. It was fun to ...
two incidents on the peace corner
This is a top pick! Two memorable moments on the corner of Campbell and San Antonio Streets from Noon-1 PM each Friday [anti-Iraq war vigil]: 1) It happened to be Good Friday. I happened to be holding a very stark black-and-white sign that declared in bold letters: "Too ...
Wheels of Justice
This is a top pick! ... American, elevated my disgust level nicely at the horrific injustice perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel ["the 51st state of the United States", they called themselves back when I was visiting the country in 1988 referring to the mother load ...
A visit to the Muslim community in El Paso
This is a top pick! The mosque of the Islamic Community of El Paso is only a 5 minute walk from my Vista Sol apartment, but the cultural divide kept me away. Since the Wheels Tour was bringing a Palestinian American, I did venture over to the Middle Eastern restaurant and ...
April Desert Hail-storm
This is a top pick! Shocking photos show the sudden storm results (accompanied by tornados) in the desert, that hit El Paso...flooding streets and closing the main library's computer lab for several days. And I was just beginning to blog when the first signs of the storm ...
The March winds doth blow!
This is a top pick! ... brownout. Our friend West has since explained to us that March is El Paso's worst weather. Because we're actually in a mountain pass [El Paso=the pass], spring winds funnel through that pass and can become gusts upwards of 40-50-60 MPH. This is a regular ...