We stayed at this hotel about 10 years ago and remembered it as a very pleasant hotel in a great little town. Sadly, it has clearly fallen on hard times. The paint was peeling in the halls and exterior of the building. Many of the rooms smelled musty. There was no hair dryer or tissue in our room, but the front desk provided them quickly.
The room keys were difficult to work and unexplainably, one key of the pair fit in the door lock, but wouldn't unlock the door. The back of the hotel was very ramshackle. The hot tub was not working.
On the other hand, the restaurant and meeting room food was quite good. The bar was pleasant with good local brew on tap. This hotel is a good place to eat, but not a good overnight choice.

So I am a student who stayed at the bluffs in for the Dorian Music Festival at Luther College and it sucked! Their were like splotches of goo on walls and their looked like theirs was blood in the carpets and on this one wall drooling down... Then I kept getting creeper phone calls in the middle of the night and I go to the front desk to see if they can track it and the dude can hardly speack English! But all he did was lock everydoor and made his "rounds" and looked in random places but not every place to ensure the place is secure. Otherwise on top of that the hotel had horrible musky smell, only an assortment of cereal for breakfast, and the heaters hardly worked... I would NEVER recommend this hotel unless Mary, who is the nicest staff person, is working!

i travel a lot and i stayed before here in this hotel..i suddenly surprise to see a new and remodelling rooms.because of the new owner i saw a lots of changes that was so clean and neat ..its worth to stay..i thought the breakfsast was very very good--bunch of varieties to fit the needs of guests, i never had a this type of beakfast in big hotel ever. it was nice to have free and very fast internet to use..only thing that would have been nice was a hair dryer in the room..it feel europien style..so impres with this hotel..though pool and hot tub is currently under renovation but might this summer they reopen with remodelling...but now i will sure suggest my friends and family to stay here...

We stayed at the Bluffs Inn during a visit to our daughter at Luther College. It was the only hotel in town that had a room - now I know why. When we arrived we were told that our room would cost $10 more than the price which was quoted on the phone. Since there was no place else to stay - we had no choice but to take the room. We were also asked, upon check in, if we had been told that the room we would be using had no window. I have never been asked this before. And, indeed, it had no window - at least not one to the outside. It did have a window that looked upon a blackened, abandoned staircase. It was the weirdest thing any of us had ever seen.

As for the shower or other amenities - we did not use them. The cleanliness was in question and none of us dared to attempt a shower. In fact, our high school age daughter opted to sleep on the floor of her sister's dorm room instead of staying at the Bluffs Inn with us.

The "enhanced continental" breakfast was absolutely not what we would call enhanced. We didn't take part in it either.

We were told that the hotel had "free wireless" - we struggled to use it. As we were checking out, we discovered that it was in a small 20 foot area with two student school desks near the lobby.

Suffice to say - that if we ever find ourselves staying overnight in Decorah again - we will not be patronizing the Bluffs Inn.