Hotels in Rapid City

It was clean and comfortable. Location is close to I-90 yet far enough from it so that you do not hear any road noise. The hotel sits behind another hotel so that traffic noise from the street is low. There is a mall on the other side of I-90 with plenty of places to eat. There is an Olive Garden there too. The gas station, Common Cents, is at the exit/enter ramp and has one of the best prices for gas nearby. Kids running along the hallways, not really the fault of the management. Noise from other rooms was moderate but still there. Strange light switch...only one light switch next to the door controlled all the lights. Therefore there was no way to just turn on/off the lights next to the bed.

great location in the middle of downtown Rapid City, within easy walking distance to a number of restaurants, bars, and entertainment. The rooftop bar offers a great view of the town, the Black Hills, and sunsets. A few rooms have odd configurations (#19, split behind the elevators, sharing a bathroom 'Jack-and-Jill' style) that may benefit families or friends sharing a room. The owners of this historic hotel have not invested in updating their property in a number of years, and it shows. The rooms are very small (standard Queen) - one room I stayed in had a desk that was completely unusable because there was not room to pull out the chair between the desk and the end of the bed. The "closet" was very small, only about 12" deep with only two hangers. In one room I stayed in, the closet door was firmly stuck shut, leaving me with no closet access. The bathrooms are so small that tall or large people may find them completely unusable. The A/C did not work consistently, regardless of the setting, and the drapes could not be pulled shut over the window to cut down on heat & light getting into the room. The carpets were filthy, with large red stains and decades of dirt grubbed into them. Staff are friendly enough, but so casual as to appear rude in many cases (multiple staff at the front desk.)

Downtown location. Construction outside starting at 6:15! Dirty floors in lobby and elevators due to workers... with no attempt to clean it up. No kitchen. Generally chaotic and noisy. No thermostats in rooms: either heat and you cook or cold and you freeze. Sorry, just a bad property.

Access to the water park The bar and grill had almost none of the menu items. Food was poor quality. Lifeguards were more interested in cleaning up early than watching the kids. I had to jump in after my child was sucked into the lazy river. No lifeguard responded or offered to help afterward. The suite was so small that you could barely walk around the queen size bed. The closet could not open due to being blocked by the bed. Check in was at 4pm without exception which is much later than most other facilities.

We stayed there for one night. The bathroom smelled of cigarette smoke very badly. We mentioned it to the front desk and they didn't seem to care. One of the kids left the bathroom door open overnight and the room started to stink too. Yuck! We told the for t desk again in the morning and they said ok. Hmmm. The is suppose to be smoke free but doesn't seem like it. Please have housekeeping check rooms better, the smell was noticeable. This is not good. Yuck! Bathroom smelled like cigarette smoke amd the front desk did not care.