The boutique hotels we send people to in Downtown Minneapolis. Part of our full boutique hotels guide and the Downtown Mpls neighborhood guide.
In the 1929 Foshay Tower, the city’s first skyscraper and a registered National Historic Landmark. The W layered its design language onto the original Art Deco bones. The 27th-floor Prohibition bar has city views that justify the elevator wait alone.
In the 1930 Ivy Tower, originally a Christian Science temple. The building’s pyramid roof is a downtown skyline fixture. Inside, the design is calm and contemporary, the spa is one of the city’s best, and the location anchors you between the convention center and Loring Park.
A Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel inside the 1929 Rand Tower, with the original Art Deco lobby restored to gleaming. The rooftop pool overlooks downtown. The location is steps from First Avenue and walkable to most of the music venues, theaters, and restaurants on this site.
A small art-forward hotel one block off Hennepin, with a contemporary art collection rotating throughout the public spaces. The rooms are minimal in the European register, the location puts you in the middle of the theater district, and the bar consistently ranks among the better hotel bars downtown.
A Hilton Curio Collection property inside the IDS Center, the Philip Johnson tower that defines the downtown skyline. Skyway access to most of downtown, a quiet contemporary design, and one of the more reliable downtown business-traveler rooms.
A contemporary Loews property tucked into a quieter corner of downtown, with rooms that consistently feel newer and more designed than the rate suggests. The lobby Cosmos restaurant is unexpectedly serious. The pool is a draw.
A 214-room Westin inside the former Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank, a 1942 modernist landmark. The original limestone, terrazzo, and bank-vault details are still throughout the public spaces. The location splits the difference between the convention center and Nicollet Mall.
One of the newer downtown design hotels, in the former Powers Department Store building. The rooftop bar is one of the better summer drinks-with-a-view spots downtown, and the rooms feel like they were built for a city that finally caught up to its own design ambitions.