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In summer make reservations in advance, especially for weekends.
Antiques fill this luxurious eight-story 1920 hotel, built on a bluff above Lake Michigan. The opulent grand lobby, with its stained-glass skylight over the reception area, somewhat overshadows the rooms, which are large and outfitted with antique-reproduction cherrywood furniture; some have impressive views of downtown Milwaukee.
A bargain for the central location, the hotel is steps from the convention center and about five blocks from the lakefront.
Within blocks of all the restaurants, shopping, and sightseeing opportunities in downtown Milwaukee, this upscale hotel has a modern, glass-enclosed lobby and spare-but-comfortable guest rooms.
Kids can splash and slide year-round in the hotel's indoor water park, open on weekends. The brick hotel, adjacent to Milwaukee's convention center, was built in 1929 and its lobby is quite elegant. Lakefront attractions are a few blocks away.
This cream city brick Queen Anne–style B&B in the Concordia Historic District was built in 1886 as a private home for coal merchant David W. Howie and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. It's filled with antiques and Persian carpets, stained-glass windows, elaborate woodwork, and an eclectic collection of art and decorative objects. Two rooms have fireplaces.
