Graduate by Hilton Iowa City

Adorable area with a live band (Friday night) and a wonderful “mall” street area to shop or just sit and watch.

The A/C was the noisiest I’ve heard within the US borders. Would have been acceptable in a developing country near the Equator (better noisy than no A/C) not the flagship hotel of the University of Iowa. The coffee shop was closed until 7am on a Saturday morning. I had to walk a few blocks to get some coffee before starting my day. There was no bathroom in the lobby, and the hotel is not connected to the parking ramp (had to walk outside). Will not return and does not recommend it.

Crazy decor, but great location!

Desk staff friendly and helpful.

Great stay. Close to everything in Iowa City.

This is our second stay at the hotel. The first one was last month and it was excellent. Second time we stayed at the same floor but the room wasn’t well maintained as the other one and didn’t have the complementary water, the body wash was empty and we found left over food from another guest and his drinks inside the mini fridge. During our last day our door didn’t open but someone came and changed the door lock battery really quick for us. When we open the door we saw that the room wasn’t clean so we had to ask for clean towels at least.

Comfortable and clean. Easy walking to everything downtown. Fun, clever design and decor. Validated parking in public garage next to hotel!

Super cute property. Convenient location and well maintained.

Room clean, tub just didn't drain well and very small area in bathroom due to pedestal sink.

I stayed here a while ago and thought the bathroom in the room smelled disgusting. The shower curtains do not have a liner and it smelled horrible. I thought this was a one off, but I stayed here again and the bathroom again had an overwhelming disgusting pee smell on the shower curtain.

Great location, walking to everything. Will definitely recommend this hotel.

Cool place, right in the center of the all the action. Easy for a recent grad to get all the stares.

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Great area restaurant was great

Always love staying at the Graduate in Iowa City

Quirky and cute decor, great music down in the lobby. Laid-back atmosphere. Clean room. Good refrigerator. No microwave.

Parking for taller vehicles sucks, have to walk over two blocks and it was 100° when I was there. And not having coffee available until after 7am is pretty lame.

Front desk folks were warm and really helpful.

What a beautiful and unique hotel! As an Iowa native, it was so nice to be surrounded by a curated environment that was so specific to Iowa culture. My partner and I arrived later into the evening, but there was still friendly staff on standby to help us check in. Our room was very comfortable and clean; however, it was initially missing a shower curtain. We called the front desk, where they promptly arrived to our room with a shower curtain and offered to install it for us. We opted to just do it ourselves because…well, it’s a shower curtain, not rocket science. The area was lively but completely safe, and it was area to be staying in. I would absolutely recommend staying here!

The staff was very friendly and helpful. Our room was not ready when expected and they went out of their way to make sure we were compensated for the inconvenience after a very long drive. We very much appreciated their wanting to make things right. The rooms were very small and the bathroom had very little storage/shelving for 3 people.