Hotel
We have a book of rooms here at $229/ night. This is the hotel that does NOT have a swimming pool (the Concourse is the other book of rooms hotel with the pool). Hotel Indigo is adaptive reuse of the old Mautz paint factory. They have Aveda shampoo, very nice!! This hotel is pet friendly too.
Hotel
We have a book of rooms here at $199/night. This is the hotel with the swimming pool (not the other book of rooms at Hotel Indigo). This is located just off the Capitol Square.
Flight
Madison's airport
Flight
about a 1.5 hour drive from Madison, WI
Travel Note
madison has bike share (Google "bcycle madison" for more information)
Travel Note
leave your car parked and take the city bus to get around
Flight
There are direct flights from Sacramento's Airport to Midway Airport in Chicago if you want to fly on Southwest. Then, make the 2.5 - 3 hour drive up to Madison. Note that the other airport in Chicago, the O'haire airport, is much closer to downtown Chicago and is easier to navigate to Madison without a car.
Flight
Another option is to fly into O'haire, take the el train into downtown Chicago and have some fun, then take the greyhound bus from Union Station in Chicago up to Madison. This is about a 2 hour bus ride and will drop you off in downtown Madison. There is no train from Chicago to Madison.