Are there too many hotels in Duluth yet?

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by nateduluthnative

Last week, another hotel was proposed in duluth. One hotel is being built, and two are proposed at the Clyde and Armory sites. Over the last five years we lost some, also-the Canal Park Inn, the Buena Vista and the Duluth Motel and possibly the Chalet Motel in the near future. I would love to have peoples thoughts on this. Duluth has really gained(and lost)a lot of hotel rooms over the last twenty years.

I was just in Duluth last week, and I love staying in the older, more interesting motels/hotels and when I spotted the Chalet with its outdoor 2nd floor deck and wide balcony space, I felt like I was back in Latin America, with many of their hotels/motels featuring generous balaconies and rooftop decks. One look at this motel and my search was over. Didn't really care what type of people stayed there, weeklies, monthlies, it didn't matter.
I wanted time to spend on that 2nd floor deck.

Besides, I'm a smoker and I hate cigarette smoke in my room, I want to walk out onto a balcony or deck to smoke, and I don't want to take the elevator down to the lobby, go outside and smoke there. The Radisson just wouldn't cut it for me, even if the room rate was $25.

Yes, I'm forever hunting down the old motels on my travels, for those that still exist. Next trip, it'll be the Androy in Superior. Stayed there years ago and didn't even realize it was still a functional hotel. Hooray! Stay there and pub crawl all night. Nice generic, funky bars that haven't been yuppyized.

Any funky, blue collar, generic pubs left in Downtown Duluth, or have they all been sterilized and upgraded?

[nateduluthnative]

Originally Posted by tijlover

I was just in Duluth last week, and I love staying in the older, more interesting motels/hotels and when I spotted the Chalet with its outdoor 2nd floor deck and wide balcony space, I felt like I was back in Latin America, with many of their hotels/motels featuring generous balaconies and rooftop decks. One look at this motel and my search was over. Didn't really care what type of people stayed there, weeklies, monthlies, it didn't matter.
I wanted time to spend on that 2nd floor deck.

Besides, I'm a smoker and I hate cigarette smoke in my room, I want to walk out onto a balcony or deck to smoke, and I don't want to take the elevator down to the lobby, go outside and smoke there. The Radisson just wouldn't cut it for me, even if the room rate was $25.

Yes, I'm forever hunting down the old motels on my travels, for those that still exist. Next trip, it'll be the Androy in Superior. Stayed there years ago and didn't even realize it was still a functional hotel. Hooray! Stay there and pub crawl all night. Nice generic, funky bars that haven't been yuppyized.

Any funky, blue collar, generic pubs left in Downtown Duluth, or have they all been sterilized and upgraded?

Try R.T. Quinlan's across from the Holiday Center-old school 1960,s interior! Yes, a lot of the bars downtown on Superior and First St. have been "yuppyized" in recent years. I heard the Androy is part hotel, part residential and was once part of a small midwestern chain that the Hotel Duluth(now Greysolon Plaza), and Androy in Hibbing were once part of!

[tijlover]

I recently tried some hostels in NYC recently and I had a very enjoyable experience. It seems like they're sprouting up all over the country. But when I check Hostelworld.com, I haven't seen anything for Duluth yet. There is only one listed for Minneapolis.

Perhaps if they opened one in Duluth, Duluth might be able to attract more of the hostel-loving, penny-pinching Europeans to their city to help stimulate their tourism industry.

[nateduluthnative]

There is another hotel proposed in Duluth. Check out a site called minnescraper.com, then go to forums, then to outstate Minnesota and then to Duluth developments. It looks awesome!