Jacksonville Municipal Stadium
Formerly Alltel Stadium
Home of the Jacksonville Jaguars

Welcome to the Stadium Hotel Network! Jacksonville Municipal Stadium is home to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville. Professional football has always been defined by the sport's history, great fans, team competition, and state-of-the-art stadiums! Now you can conveniently book hotels and accommodations near your team's home stadium!

Stadium Hotel Network offers great rates on over 50 hotels near Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. All of our hotels have been approved by AAA and the Mobile Travel Guide, the authorities in hotel inspection. All hotels offer a generous savings off of regular hotel rack rates. For football fans there's no better place to book a hotel! Check the map below for locations.

Jacksonville Stadium Hotels
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Jacksonville Stadium Info
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Ticket Prices & Seating Chart
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     and the seating layout.
Jaguars Schedule
     A guide to the Jaguars'
     2007 season schedule.
Directions & Parking
     How to get to the Stadium.
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Crowne Plaza Hotel Jacksonville Riverfront
Welcome to the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront. We are a 100% Non-Smoking Hotel in the heart of downtown, travelers appreciate our level of service, convenience and breathtaking view of the St. John's River. The Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront is 15 Miles from Jacksonville International Airport (JIA), and located at exit 350, San Marco Blvd. off of SC I-95. In addition to the best night's sleep with our "Sleep Advantage" program….…more

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About Jacksonville

Jacksonville is in the great double loop of the St. Johns River, the nation's longest north-flowing river. A busy seaport, it is one of Florida's major cultural, financial, industrial, transportation and commercial centers. The city also is a wholesale lumber market and coffee importation port and is home to a naval stores yard.

The city's history began in 1562, decades before the English settled Jamestown, when French Protestants known as Huguenots founded a colony on the banks of the St. Johns River. Named Fort Caroline, the ill-fated settlement was destroyed just 3 years later by Spanish troops from the garrison at nearby St. Augustine, and for the next 200 years Spain controlled Florida.

Spanish rule ended in 1763 when Spain traded Florida to Britain in return for Havana, which the British had conquered the year before. Ownership by Britain lasted only 20 years, but during that time The King's Road between Savannah, Georgia, and St. Augustine was completed. A settlement developed where the road crossed the St. Johns River, roughly where downtown Jacksonville is today.

As a result of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American War of Independence, Britain returned Florida to Spain. But despite Spanish ownership, citizens of the new United States of America began settling in northern Florida, and during the War of 1812 both British and American forces made several incursions into the region.

To contend with the threat of American expansionism, Spain struck a deal with the United States in 1819 trading its interests in the Oregon Country and Florida in exchange for recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Texas.