Kingsley Inn, Fort Madison

the hotel was great. the room was great. the pool was great. the service was great. i would stay here again.

We love this inn. The owners are worldly people with a very nice collection of art. The food was excellent, service was great, rooms had fantastic detail and I think the place is exceptional.

This hotel is beautiful...until you start looking at details. My husband and I stayed 05/23/07-05/26/07 for our first anniversary. If you plan on a relaxing place to stay to get caught up on sleep....go elsewhere! Just make sure the railroad tracks are not close. I read a review on this website before we left but I thought it wouldn't be a problem.....there were huge trains going buy every two hours day and night, sometimes even more! We had the Mark Twain suite which was the farthest away from the tracks....still was very loud. The Jacuzzi in our room looked clean until I ran the water and the jets to make sure.....when it was empty again there was hair and dirt on the bottom and we didn't even get in it! They need to clean the filter and jets out, yuck! The coffee make in our room had no filters and nothing to measure the coffee by. We also got the Romantic package, which was a joke. We got a $30 gift certificate to Alphas restaurant in the hotel, a dozen roses, some cheap champagne, and plastic flowers all over our room. The package was $120 more than the regular room price....are you kidding me! The restaurant alphas was horrible, horrible service, horrible food.......don't waste your money go somewhere else!!!! It may say award-winning food but that must have been the previous owners chefs, all of their award winning dishes were surprisingly not on the menu. Alpha's was also the provider for breakfast in the mornings, which was cold, and basically a continental breakfast, I think a hotels breakfast could have been better. The first morning I was not feeling very well so my husband was going to bring me breakfast in bed and they wouldn't let him saying that there was no food allowed outside of the restaurant, when we had a kitchenette in our room. There were also little things that screamed out CHEAP!!! The icemakers in the hallways were broken so the owners had coolers filled with ice for guests, if you didn't get some early it was melted. The fixtures in the bath were falling off or not properly installed, the windows were nailed and painted shut. Please save your money for something else, I have stayed at Best Westerns that did a better job than this place!

Were do I start, the breakfast there is no one word for it.. Excellcent.. The veiw was breathetaking.. The service from the housekeeping and when we were checking in was excellcent also. I will return for many more stays in the furture.

My sister and I just got back from the Kinglsy Inn, in Fort Madison, Iowa. It was my 3rd. stay there. The Kingsley makes you feel like you are at an elegant hotel (like the Ritz, etc.) A real high point is that it is a LARGER B & B, (so breakfast is fast), but it is in a beautifully appointed dining room. The proprietors couldn't have made us feel more welcome. We felt like we were truly staying in their home. The proprietors have lived in about 8 different countries, and have stayed at the very best hotels. They KNEW what is expected at staying at a fine place. I couldn't recommend them more highly!!!

This is a wonderful place to stay. The owners make you feel at home. The breakfast is fabulous and you will not find a more elegant, cleaner place to stay.

Highly recommended - very comfortable rooms and an outstanding breakfast. They pay great attention to detail in the rooms - very fun place to stay. Brian and Janette Gallegos

Loved the Mississippi River view. Cute rooms with all the amenities including a deluxe breakfast. Our family stayed there while visiting Nauvoo and we absolutely loved it! We will be back!

Unbelievable to find this class in this region from the minute you stop in, the amenities, the attention, the services, the settings, the breakfast, it all say the same thing: first class. We enjoyed our stay and will be back

LIKES..WE WERE VISITING FAMILY IN THE AREA FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND REMEMBERED HEARING ABOUT THE KINGSLEY INN FROM RELATIVES.THE INN WAS MORE THAN WE EVER COULD IMAGINE IN A SMALL TOWN...IT WAS AS GOOD AS ANY FOUR SEASONS HOTEL WE HAVE STAYED IN! THE SUITE WE STAYED IN HAD A ROMANTIC FIREPLACE AND DOUBLE WHIRLPOOL BATH.THE RED ROSES WERE MUCH APPRECIATED! ALL OF THE STAFF WERE SO FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL...EXTRA TOWELS,POPCORN...WE LOVED THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI VIEW AND WATHCING THE TRAINS ONLY ADDED TO THE ROMANCE FROM ANOTHER TIME. DISLIKES..NOTHING !