The Econo Lodge hotel is minutes from downtown Houston. This Pasadena hotel is located just 10 minutes from points of interest like Reliant Park, the University of Houston, the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. The hotel is also near the Pasadena Fairgrounds, home of the annual Pasadena Strawberry Festival, featuring Texas' largest strawberry shortcake, a beauty pageant, barbeque cook-off, carnival and mud volleyball tournament. The hotel is close to NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and only five miles from the William P Hobby Airport. The hotel perfectly located for business travelers, as the Shell Oil Company and ARCO Oil Company refineries, the Exxon Corporation, Pasadena General Hospital, and more.