Aitkin Vacations from $565

Really cool conversion of the first city hall of Duluth into a boutique hotel. Our room was on the "first" floor (really the basement) without any windows, which was a little freaky at first. It was so quiet, we felt we were the only people in the building, even though there were several lounges/bars. We parked in the secure parking ramp across the street, which meant we were walking by a number of unhoused people with all of our luggage. There are NO actual staff on the premises, but the many texts that we received were sufficient in terms of checking in/out, and gaining access to the building and our rooms.

Our stay was for two nights. The beds were very uncomfortable. We had two queen. They did not make our beds between the two nights. I went down and complained at the desk and they said they don’t do that unless we specifically ask they did however come in and take our dirty towels so they were in our room. The cleaning staff did not leave any extra toilet paper so we had to go down to the desk and ask for it. Overall, I felt for the price. It was totally not worth the money. I do have to say the breakfast was fairly good, but we had to bug them to get the juice machines up and running and the milk machine up and running. Pretty hard to have cereal with no milk I will choose not to stay there in the future.

I liked the location ( most western spot of Gitchi gami), easy to get on the Lake Walk. Private parking spot was a bonus. My room (#3) was a good size, bed comfortable, bath room clean.