The Victorian Inn

“Nice little inn, but ask for an upstairs room!”

The Victorian Inn has a good location as far as being in walking distance to everything in Telluride! We hiked the Bear Creek Trail on the first evening after flying in! The next morning we hiked to Bridal Veil falls and hiked from our room, added a few miles to the hike and the trail along the r... more

The Victorian Inn has a good location as far as being in walking distance to everything in Telluride! We hiked the Bear Creek Trail on the first evening after flying in! The next morning we hiked to Bridal Veil falls and hiked from our room, added a few miles to the hike and the trail along the river was just so beautiful and easy before we got to the Bridal Veil Falls Hike! The Gondola is SO close to the inn, so you can ride right on up the mountain in a jiff. Also there is a market/grocery store just a few blocks down, as well as plenty of coffee shops, restaurants, and shops. The breakfast was very good, and set up by 7:30 - oatmeal, fruit, pastries, coffee, boiled eggs, sausage - just a good hikers breakfast in my opinion. The staff we dealt with was super nice, and very helpful - we couldn't get our TV to work and the lady at the front desk (I can't remember her name, but she was so nice) just popped right up and asked if we would be okay for her to come to our room to fix it. Housekeeping was great, the room was clean and had been cleaned before we got back from hiking each day. My only advice is this: ASK for a room upstairs. Our room was just next to the small courtyard, hot-tub, and grill. There is no air conditioning in this inn which wasn't an issue for us EXCEPT for the fact that you have to have your windows open and every evening - someone was RIGHT outside our room hanging out. I don't blame them the little courtyard was perfect to hang out in, it just completely took away any peace and privacy for us. ALSO...the stairs are metal, and I understand the necessity for this in the winter - but if you book a lower room there will be no sleeping in. You can hear every single step not only on the metal stairs which people lug up and down, but also in the room above too. So...for us we were up by 6am every morning (which wasn't a huge issue for us because we wanted to go hike anyhow, but there was ZERO chance of sleeping in when we wanted to). If I had to do it again, I would ask for the second story/upstairs rooms and I would pay for the most private/secluded room I could find!

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“Expensive. But so is all of Telluride.”

Telluride is expensive. In looking for a place to stay, I had a severe case of ‘sticker shock’. I got over it (a bit) as I saw that everywhere was expensive. We selected the Victorian Inn. A good choice. First, it is right downtown (a block off the main street) and has a bit of parking (once we g... more

Telluride is expensive. In looking for a place to stay, I had a severe case of ‘sticker shock’. I got over it (a bit) as I saw that everywhere was expensive. We selected the Victorian Inn. A good choice. First, it is right downtown (a block off the main street) and has a bit of parking (once we got a parking place, we were afraid to drive anywhere for fear of losing our parking space). It’s a nice room that’s well maintained. There’s the usual stuff – queen bed, two bed tables, a dresser with a mini-fridge next to it, a small table with two chairs (handy for eating our breakfast on) a coffee maker. The bed has an interesting headboard. Rather small. They do have a breakfast (kind of). The lobby is rather small. Off to one side there is a small counter with food. Cereal, yogurt, sausage links, some fruit, OJ and coffee. There is no place to eat in the lobby so there are small trays to take stuff back to the room to eat. Anywhere else this would be more of a budget lodging. Not so much in Telluride. Generally, this has been a good choice.

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