Name: Itascan Motel
Address: 610 S. Pokegama Ave, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MN 55744, United States of America
Rating: 6

Air conditioning

24-hour reception

Smoking areas

Smoke-free property

Heating

Newspapers

No elevators

General

Non-smoking rooms

Fridge

Family room

Shower/Bathtub

Shower

Linens

Toiletries

Rooms

Laundry

Wake-up service

Services and amenities

Vending machine

Microwave oven

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

Spanish

English

Languages Spoken

Parking

Beach/pool towels

Pool and beach

Fax and copy machine

Business

Family/Kid Friendly

Kids

Pets allowed

Pets

Temperature control for staff

Personal protection equipment for staff

Extra decontamination measures

Temperature control for guests

Personal protection equipment for guests

Additional measures against COVID-19

Health and Safety Measures

Location

At the mini-hotel

Room amenities

Chisholm Airport

Itascan Motel

Grand Rapids

child-bed

child-bed-fee

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limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

I had an amazing experience. Customer Service was excellent. Staff was very friendly and helpful. The rooms were clean. The price range was with in my budget. The location was convenient. I would stay here again.

Amazing Service

We were upgraded to a bigger, better room because of a booking mistake on the hotel's part.  The person at the desk seemed a little reluctant about the upgrade, but did it.  The room had a very comfy bed and thick carpet.  Older but elegant furnishings, which I liked though  I know that not everyone would.

V. Good room as a result of the hotel's reluctant upgrade

The gentleman that checked me in at the front desk was very courteous. He wanted my stay at The Itascan Motel to be a good one. He assured me they the room I was getting was clean. He explained the remote for the air conditioner. That came in handy! For one person, I ended up in a room that had three queen sized beds, room #17. Two were right there when you walked in, the other queen sized bed had a bedroom of its own. Room also had two sinks, a shower (no bathtub), a refrigerator, flatscreen TV, small microwave oven, and a coffee maker.

The decor of the room is a bit antiquated, but I didn’t have any problem with that at all. Actually, I found it amusing. When I stay at hotels/motels, I look for the “Three C’s.” 

As mentioned above, the gentleman that checked me in was “Courteous.” The room I stayed in, #17, was “Clean.” I easily fell asleep because the bed and pillows were so “Comfortable.” 

WiFi: After several attempts to connect, I gave up. Directions are taped to the inside of the room door.

Shower: The water got good and hot! Nice!

Air Conditioner: Works with remote. Seemed that the fan only had one speed, slow. I couldn’t get it up to medium or high. Still, even on low, it kept the room cool.

Smoking: One of the hotel guests was sitting outside of his room on a chair smoking. I was getting wafts of smoke as I brought things into the room.

Quiet: I slept so well, not only because the bed clean and comfortable, it was so quiet here during my stay.

Parking: I enjoy it greatly when I can park right outside my door! That’s always a plus!

Bottom Line: I’d stay here again! Thank you very much to owner/manager!


Courteous! Clean! Comfortable!

My group had a hotel mixup down the road and everything else in town was booked solid.  We came upon the Itascan as an absolute last resort at midnight...by the look of it we were all a little nervous.

The woman who checked us in had the absolute best customer service I've ever experienced!  She gave us a discount on the rooms after talking to us a bit regarding our situation without us even asking.  She also told is that we were perfectly safe because her husband is a police officer!  I can't speak her praises enough.

The rooms are extremely outdated and have an obvious, strong smell of years of cigarette smoke.  They're well used.  The AC unit in my room is definitely from the seventies and the filter was a bit gunky so I didn't turn it on to try to take care of the stuffy feeling but the overall temp was comfortable.

The room was shockingly clean.  I didn't see one fleck of debris on the carpet, one speck of dust anywhere!

Yes, the shower is tiny, beds are old...well, everything was a bit aged but the cleanliness was a huge surprise.  

Overall, I'd say it's a good place to stop if all you're doing is taking a night's rest.

A little surprised

My wife and we’re in town for a wedding at the last minute we need a place to stay
We were told about this hotel that it was small and that the rooms were nice
  Well we took their advice  for it and the only thing that was told to us that came close to being true was “it was small” The room was in need of repair and the bathroom was so small that the shower you had a hard time turning around in it 
I paid to much for the room and there was a silver lining that the restaurant across the street was very good 
Stay away !



Very old and cost more than it should

Staff was wonderful and the rooms were definitely comfortable. There was a strong musty/cigarette smoke smell when we walked into the room. I really liked how the living room was in front of the bedroom so that I was able to close the door and sleep while my husband watched TV. Updates are needed on the inside but I would definitely stay again because the price is definitely right!

Great service, clean and comfortable rooms

A group of us stayed at The Itascan during a weekend trip. I had room 21, which had 2 beds. The beds were essentially in 2 small rooms, with a wall between them, giving you some privacy. The bed was OK. However if I would have looked closer at the sheets the first night, I would have been in the office right away asking to have things fixed. The morning of checkout I looked closer at the the sheet and found what appeared to be blood stains in the sheet (see picture). Right away on the first night I checked my pillows. They gave us 3 on the bed. One was ruled our right away because it too was stained.
The bathroom is small. The shower is very small, with light water pressure. I should have looked closer at the shower curtain. The final morning I saw streaks of mildew. Who knows when the curtain was last cleaned or changed.
The air conditioner ran, but it didn't blow real cool air. There was also a fridge that kept things cool and a microwave. I don't know how that worked as it was not plugged in and I didn't try to use it.
The TV is a good sized flat screen. However I didn't watch it as I wasn't in the room much.
It looks as if the baseboard heater no longer works, so they have a portable heater in the room. It was disgusting looking and very dirty.
The Itascan needs a lot of updating and very thorough cleaning of the entire place.
If this is the only place that's left, you might want to visit Walmart or Target to pick up some Lysol and Clorox as you may need it to take care of what housekeeping doesn't.
I know I will not stay at the Itascan again. It's not worth the $131.00 nightly rate we were charged...maybe $65 but not $131.00.

If you have other choices, go elsewhere!

Though the room was clean and the personal was friendly, everything is old and seems musty. The TV had a decent number of channels, but was not HD. The wifi was very week. I would not go back to this motel again.

Not the best

Nasty nasty nasty nasty they have cockroaches rented a room at Itascan motel when I got into my first room it was filthy and when I say filthy I mean like I don't think it's been cleaned and I don't know how long I'm a vacation rental cleaner so I know how to tell when places are clean regularly so we called the front desk just told them we needed some cleaning stuff we're willing to stay in the room because we had all of our stuff already moved in he said no to the cleaning stuff and ended up moving us to another room however once we got in that room it got even worse there's cockroaches garbage behind TVs old food or bones with mold on it with colvin and everything else all the sicknesses this is not healthy and not even close to being able to be rented I've had two kidney transplants and this guy just didn't even bat an eye

Cockroaches filthy

The light when you walked in was crackling a sounded like it was shorting out and flashing, furniture more then just a little stained, didn’t dare set anything on shelf above sink in bathroom as it was pulling out of wall, not sure what was up with bulb in weird little hallway that had coffee pot, it was a bulb with what appeared to have what must have been a shade attached at one time..bed looked clean but pulled aside sheet and disgusting stained mattress pad..needless to say I laid on top of bedding with all my clothes on, we gave up and left at 5AM.. pictures on site look clean, wasn’t expecting anything great..but this was awful.  Seriously wonder how it could pass safety/building inspection..if that’s a thing!,

Disgusting… just needed a simple place to spend the night while traveling.  Didn’t think it would be that bad for $109

Itascan Motel

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