St. Elmo Hotel

Location and staying in an historic hotel.

Downtown and quaint setting.

Breakfast was made to order and was very good. The cook was very engaging, efficient and friendly. The decor and antique furnishings were charming. We loved the overall experience and would do it again.

Great bed and breakfast with historical flair and great attentive staff

Very classic, a throwback to anther era!

Lovely room, very comfortable

We loved the old building, floral wallpaper and history.

Old style, big room, mountain type decoration, confortable.
Very nice senior lady at breakfast.
Very good food at the diner.
The location: old mining town lost in mountains!

The hotel has historical significance in the town Ouray, Colorado. It is well located and has a very good restaurant and bar in the lower level of the hotel. The furniture in the room was a mix of 1900 and 1800 style and the room was very comfortable.

Cool 19th century hotel, right in the middle of town. Walk everywhere. The only complaint I had was the beds. They sag in the middle, which isn't a problem if you're alone. They should probably be platform beds. The hotel was retrofitted with en suite bathrooms, obviously. But everything works! Parking on the street right out front was no problem. Very secure and really pretty.

Everyone at the hotel was helpful and pleasant. The front desk manager, Morgan, was friendly and provided lots of information on restaurants and shopping in the area.

Small room with no amenities. Rooms were freezing. And the staff was not their until the morning to address issues. Other guests were loud and disrespectful.

Charming old building with great decor - yes, it will get better under new management and breakfast could get better with eggs and oats etc. But overall we had a good time.

Everything was great except the bed was very uncomfortable

Very cool vibe, great location, very comfortable and spacious rooms!

Kind staff. Cute rooms. Cozy and relaxing.

Check-in was smooth.

The restaurant was closed the first two days of our visit which was part of why we booked there.

The breakfast in "bed and breakfast" was a very scaled down continental breakfast - one type of danish, coffee, tea, fruit, dry cereal. Duration was 1 hour. One morning, the staff was not there on time and a line of guests outside the door had formed. The coffee hadn't been emptied from the night before and no food was out. When staff arrived, they started the coffee which overflowed because they hadn't emptied the pot first. I think the owners should consider a better breakfast option or change their claim that it's a bed and breakfast hotel.

Also, if you book, don't ask for Room 10, it is front and center of the lobby, right inside the front door to the hotel - so lots of noise until late at night when other guests return to their room, and early as folks check out.

What was amazing was the en suite sauna/steam bath and shower, and comfortable bed/bedding. Front desk staff were also courteous and helpful.

It is difficult to give stars to an inconsistent experience. The woman who made the breakfast and cleaned the rooms was very nice and customer focused. This hotel needs some attention in the sense that your average traveler expects more.
Things that need attention are: making sure that there is coffee before 8:00 and assuring that the coffee in the breakfast room has been delivered. The gal making the breakfast could only apologize that the supplies were not delivered. I happened to wander around the main floor at 7:30 and discovered a Keurig in a back room by the ice machine. The back room needed attention. The breakfast each morning was a warm sweet pastry, white toast, and cold cereal. I heard several patrons ask about eggs and other typical breakfast offerings. This is a problem for travelers paying the price to stay here.
Room # 7 had 2 queen beds which we needed and were adequate. The bathroom, had a shower that was so tight and there was not a shelf to place shampoo etc., except the floor. I talked to one of the new mgmt. team and expressed my observations. While it is an old hotel with lots of charm it is in need of some upgrading. My conversation with the mgmt. team person was cordial and he let me know of some of the minor upgrades they were thinking about. I believe that you can keep the ambiance of a historic hotel with more welcoming upgrades.