Historic buildings have always been of interest to me so while on a 3 day trip to wpg i thought the marlborough hotel might just be a neat place to stay..although i did read some reviews i decided to leave it up to my own discretion and go ahead as the hotel was in the vicicnity of the places i was there to go to...first let me say the hotel looks from the outside so historic and the staff were very accomadating and polite..lunch in the restaurant was good, the beautifully cared for stained glass windows and historic walls and carvings made it a historic experience...Thats where it all ended.When entering the rooms i was a bit surprised to see that the entire room was seriously dated and in need of an entire reno.Although im sure the cleaning staff tried their hardest to clean it as well as the were able to but seriously they were very limited in what they could do.Starting with the beds although not bad for comfort the sheets and blankets were threadbare and had cigarette holes in them.comforters and shams were discarded immediaetly as they were too scarey to sleep with.The heater was so loud that i felt i was sleeping in a truck or that there was construction going on inside the room, so needless to say had to be turned off to sleep and then brrrr no thick blankets to keep warm.The bathroom was needless to say old crumbling and soooooo dated.The water taps didnt work right. The rugs were dark but had to wear shoes for fear of what was on there.Worst of all was in the morning waking up full of big red welts.Itchy red bumps aquired throughout the night..Each morning i awoke with more and by the time i left i had huge giant red itchy welts on my body..I could only come to one conclusion on that one..I did think the prices were fair before checking in but afterwards would have definitely paid alot more for a cleaner more up to date hotel..So there you go wont do that again and can only hope these ugly red welts will go away.Maybe some antibiotics will do the trick as i am just heading out the door to the dr to have them treated............Enter at your own risk........i did....and lived to regret it...

From the homeless people in the front enterance to the maze to get to the room this was by far the worst hotel I have ever heard of. Paid extra to receive free parking and a queen suite only to arrive and find out there is no parking avialable. Staff offered to reimburse us for parking which was nice. Room was dirty the tv cords were hanging off he wall into an outlet that had no cover on it, couch had brown stains on it and it looked like something from the basement of a college frat house. We dropped our bags off went out on the town and then grabbbed our stuff and took a cab to the holiday in at midnight because we refused to stay in that dirt infested room. I wouldnt even let my dogs stay in a place like that. I have travelled many times across the world and have never seen anything quite like this. Please take my advice and the advice of some of the other posts STAY AWAY.

I would like to say that u will not find better meals in a hotel then the marlborough ,the hotel is owned by a cheap a..hole but managed by a classy guest orientated man with many years of experience. I'm glad to see the front desk has filtered out the hung over crabby women of the past . The marlborough hotel is not the the radisson or the hilton but be assured ur room will be clean , towels fresh and the manager will always accommodate you. I can't wait for the owner of this hotel to sell , so much potential and he is just not growing with winnipeg. Mike, keep up the great work!

Hello,

As a hotel manager myself I have never posted any negative feed back on trip advisor but I feel that people need to know what is going on in this hotel.
I understand that there is a bit of a rough crowd that is staying throughout the city of Winnipeg but the quality of rooms is apsolutly disgusting.
From burnt blankets, dirty floor, Broken bathroom window, shower did not work, mass amounts of paint falling of the walls to the bullet hole in the window. As you will see in the picture I have debated on bringing this to the press. You will see an ovbiouse bullet hole in the window with what appears to be blood. This room was sold to us with the hotel explaining before we got to the room that there was a maintenance issue. I have never ever heard of this and I have worked in the hotel industry my whole life.