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Brunswick Hotel
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
2 reviews for Brunswick Hotel
I will give this hotel 2 stars for the room, and 4 stars for the atmosphere/experience.
I stayed there about a year ago with my boyfriend, my dad and his girlfriend while we were ghost-towning. (sidenote: nearby Oatman is rad! Go there and make friends with the donkeys)
The hotel itself is really cool, it feels like a big ol' haunted house. The hologram ghosty pictures on the stairway are a little over the top...but I still dug it.
My 2 major complains were: yes, you can hear the train...very loudly...all night....which sucks. Plus, there is no door between the bathroom and the bedroom....what the hell? Privacy is a nice thing....that you would expect to have. It wasn't just us either, my Dads room lacked the same essential feature.
However. During the night, my Dad and his lady heard the sound of a little kid laughing and running up and down the stairs. I also noticed that there was an old timey couch in the hallway with lots of dolls. The next morning they asked the staff to find that there were no kids there that night, they proceeded to tell us that other people had similarly complained in the past.
So maybe my Dad heard a ghost. Which is awesome. It is exactly the experience I am looking to have. While I would love to believe in ghosts, I have yet to personally see anything to support their existence. I'm still on the lookout though.
The Brunswick is a nice old historic hotel on the main street (and Rte 66) of Kingman. It has a restaurant and bar, but this review relates only to its hotel aspect. See my review for Hubb's Bistro for the hotel dining room.
The Brunswick hotel is family run, clean, nice and old shoe. All rooms upstairs, no elevator. As you would expect from a restored historic hotel, rooms are small but quite adequate, and with closets and baths. Some rooms come for as little as $30, but a romantic couple will want at least the Brunswick Suite at $85. One can haggle, depending on the hour and season; the lady behind the check-in desk is the co-owner.
Why not more stars? The hotel is situated right in the historic center of Kingman, which is an old Santa Fe RR town. And right across the street from the hotel is the railroad. All night long (and all day, too), every 7 minutes or so, a train full of containers from the Port of Los Angeles goes rumbling by. And because there is an at grade crossing right where the hotel is, by law the train engine has to toot its horn. Darn hard to sleep through that, all night long.
Too bad -- otherwise it would be one of my favorite historic hotels in Arizona.
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