Saloon

Dear Saloon Patrons,

After many years of effort in making Saloon Hotel a safe and affordable LGBT-friendly hotel above The Saloon bar, we recently made a decision to close the hotel. It was very difficult to break even month after month and so decided to close it until our team comes up with the best option for that space to improve our experience and offering to our LGBT community as we have for 30+ years.

We don’t want any of our past patrons to think we closed the hotel due to a bed bug issue because the hotel was unsanitary. As CNN has reported, along with every other national media outlet, “While travelers may be horrified to find bedbugs in a hotel room, cleanliness isn’t a factor in the pests’ arrival. It’s not a hygiene issue, and that’s a very important thing for all consumers to understand,” Henriksen said. The American Hotel and Lodging Association echoes that message. Bedbugs are brought into hotels by guests; it is not a hotel sanitation issue,” the association said in a statement. By Marnie Hunter, CNN posted July 27, 2010 7:51 a.m.

We were proud to offer the first and only LGBT hotel in downtown Minneapolis for many years and were sad that it financially was not able to continue. We look forward to creating something new and exciting in this space for our local community to enjoy in the future.

Please feel free to email us anytime and I would be more than happy to answer any further questions you may have.

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you soon,

John Moore & James Anderson, Owners
The Saloon