Lake

Reviews of South Pier Inn

2.5 out of 5
South Pier Inn
701 S Lake Ave, Duluth, MN

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 768 out of 962 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 156 out of 962 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 26 out of 962 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 9 out of 962 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 962 reviews" "

9.8/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Staff & service

9.4/10

Amenities

9.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Peaceful and close to the lake!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Timothy

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Needs better parking
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Colette

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved being able to look out the window and see ships go by. Wonderful stay!
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ginny

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Monika

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great views, super clean rooms
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Kristopher

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Deb

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved the view from our room was beautiful surroundings the lift bridge barges everything walking distance room was awesome clean staff very friendly will for sure go back!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jamie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed one night in a room facing the canal. Great location, we walked to local restaurants. Staff were friendly. Great room with jacuzzi, fireplace, comfortable bed, and balcony.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Renae, Stillwater

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Enjoyed our time at South Pier Inn. Hope to be back!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Connie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved access to lighthouse and shoreline walk, sound of the sea.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Jessica

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Horrible parking. They need a better "hotel map" amd explanation for understanding how the rooms are entered upon arriving. Staff was kind but did a bad job explaining how to find my room.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patricia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The breakfast was good and the staff were friendly and helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Lynne

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jesse

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great view of the lake. Shopping was within walking. The room was quite. Would definitely come again.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

XINYI

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I asbolutely enjoyed the stay with my husband and my 16mo old baby. Very nice staff. We were luck to meet owner at the lobby after breakfast. He told us more stories about this property and the waves at Canal Park from a photo book. I love how these stories were put together and ready to be shared with guests. I feel bad that if we didn’t have the unexpected encounter in the morning, we would have missed these stories. We never thought of opening those photo books in the lobby or really paying much attention to what was presented to us silently. Now I realized that so many things were so carefully put together and well thought out. I loved our stay, service offered and the wonderful cranberry wild rice toast served as breakfast. :) we will come back. Thank you!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rebecca

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awesome place right on the water, beautiful rooms, close to Canal Park. We will be back!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Andrea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Shawn

Travelled with partner
I didn’t like that we didn’t have hot water the night of our stay, which means we couldn’t use the hot tub or the shower, I would’ve appreciated a heads up at arrival since they knew there was a water issue, and didn’t mention it to us, and I would’ve appreciated some communication back when I called the evening of our day to find out what was going on. We didn’t have water until the morning. We were leaving this frustrating after traveling a great distance and spending a lot of money to stay for the night.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from Branden Robinson, General Manager on 27 Feb 2024
Greetings Shawn, I'm sorry about your experience with the temporary hot water outage. As discussed, I personally checked the water heater several times that afternoon to ensure it was operating properly after a maintenance procedure, so I felt confident there would be no issue. Unfortunately, the heater failed to relight at some point that evening, which caused the lack of fully hot water, until it was rebooted later in the evening. I understand your frustration, and please watch for the correspondence in the mail previously discussed.Thank you,

10/10 Excellent

lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Aaron

Travelled with family, Travelled with partner
Outside of property was dated bad shape needs a ton of work parking lot was a war zone of potholes, fire pit was on top of the road facing the street rather than the view. Breakfast was a joke some homemade goods in ziplock bags worst continental breakfast I’ve ever had. Overall this was not a 350.00 a night hotel I will never stay again staff very dull and not very inviting and way over priced definitely check out the hikers just down the street everyone had good things to stay, south pier was below average and price was way to high for this place.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from Branden Robinson, General Manager on 12 Feb 2024
Hello Aaron, and thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry that your stay did not meet your expectations, but allow me to address some of your concerns:- Unfortunately, potholes in the exit road are on the city street, and can become more pronounced seasonally due to freeze and thaw cycles. We will reach out again to public works to address this issue.- The firepit and patio, adjacent to our lobby, is closest to the Aerial Lift Bridge, which many of our guests love to view. - Our continental breakfast consists of fresh baked goods delivered daily from a local bakery, as well as a variety of fruit juices, Duluth Coffee, a yogurt parfait bar, hard boiled eggs, oatmeal, tea, and other goodies. Yes, we have been individually wrapping baked goods for the health of our guests since the pandemic.- I'm sorry to hear that you did not feel our staff was welcoming. I will be sure to address this with our team.I would welcome the opportunity to discuss any other concerns you had regarding your stay. Please feel free to contact me at the hotel at any time. Thank you again for sharing your review.Warmest Regards,Branden

8/10 Good

Colette

Great stay. Please get new mattresses. Those foam toppers are terrible.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The bed was amazing, so very comfortable. The view of the lift bridge was spectacular. The road conditions around the property leading out were pretty sketchy, in the dark it felt like you were going to drive right into Lake Superior, fortunately/hopefully this is a work in progress
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

karen

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The stay was very nice. The front desk staff was very nice. The continental breakfast was very nice. There are a flag of Finland and a flag of Poland hanging outside. I was told that the owners are from those countries. Very cool.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jeremy

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Emilee

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Front desk staff very friendly and knowledgeable. Easy walk over the lift bridge to many dining options and nice cocktail spots.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

kristen

beautiful views very nice property
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tracy

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Very nice location, neat quaint rooms with sitting spaces too. Good views . Private entrances, ample parking, walking distance to restaurants . Nice free breakfast in morning.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Stacey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

John-Erich

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Josephus

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Kristine

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a true gem. I would have given it 4 stars but after meeting the owners, a wonderful long time couple of Duluth, that solidified our 5 star rating. The inn is in an excellent location on the edge of the Lift Bridge and daily we could see ships going through the bridge, a wonderful delight. The only suggestion for the owners is to add some more shelves/ drawers for clothing for those of us staying over 2 or 3 days. We had a delightful stay, good value, and would love to come back!
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Leah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Geoffrey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Marissa

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Steve

Everything, it was great, will definitely be back
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean friendly. Easy check in
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bradley

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Thomas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michelle, Greenwood

Travelled with family
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Todd

Travelled with family, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It is very evident that whom ever owns or manages this Motel cares deeply about their guest's experience during the stay. A lot of detail things in the room and on the property added to the enjoyment of our stay. Easily the best place i've stayed in Canal Park.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Debbie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Timothy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxing and quiet
I had a really nice quiet stay, was able to sleep really well. The doughnuts for breakfast are fantastic.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Melanie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great stay!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Callie

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice facility and clean
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Samantha

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Tristan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Brian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
In easy walking distance of shops and restaurants close to lift bridge also is a nice quiet location
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Brad

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely property.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023