Androy Lounge

This place is the worst. The only way it could be improved is if it were bulldozed and lit on fire. It appears to have had no renovations or maintenance since the 1950s. Mildew/​cigarette smell, nasty yellow bed, stained carpeting… if you are looking to save $ in Duluth, isn’t going to happen. Go somewhere else.

My friends and I have taken our annual Guy Trip to Superior more often than not in the last ten years. This is the only hotel we will consider for that trip. It’s centrally located, not spendy, has its own bar (great place to end a night of drinking), and rooms big enough for us all to crash. The restaurant has also served us many a greasy breakfast. Charmingly antiquated amenities, but we don’t come here for state of the art stuff. All hail the Androy!

Cheapest motel near Duluth which is the reason why we booked it…$ 85 for a 2 bed room!
We came while the construction was going on so the view is pretty… blahsey
The interior was very… antique to put it in a nice way haha
Beds were comfortable and it was seconds away from Papa Don’s restaurant which had nice cheap breakfast!

This place was exactly what I expected. Old-​style hotel, small hotel room with two double beds, nice front staff, small but functional bathroom (with some rusting evident), and view of Tower street.
While there, Tower Street was undergoing major reconstruction, so not certain how noisy the street would be under usual circumstances.
Very noisy family with kids next door (mine of course are quiet angels… yeah, right), but barely audible through the decent walls. Not so true of the guy pounding and yelling «let me in» at about 11pm, but I was actually kinda expecting that too.
Great price. Great location. Superior is a really neat, under-​appreciated city

As Max C., the most interesting man in the world, describes, this place is heaven for stumbling drunks in search of a bed, or just visitors in search of some history and character. My girlfriend and I were headed up to Duluth for the weekend, but the Milwaukee Brewers were playing in game 5 of the division series and we felt we needed to be in Wisconsin to watch the end of it. So we headed east across the bridge into Superior and began to search around for a place to watch the game. Well, after watching the Brewers beat Arizona, we’d imbibed more than a few drinks, and we thought about staying the night in town. The Androy was right across the street in a cool old building, and cheap! Perfecto.
The hotel is a grand, stately place, especially when compared to most of Superior. It has a very working-​class vibe to it, though, so we figured it might work, and when we saw the prices we were very pleased to have this convenient and interesting option. I don’t recall exactly what we paid for the room, but it couldn’t have been much more than $ 40 – 50. The hotel has a large lobby, a bar, and a restaurant that’s open ²⁴⁄₇ for your needs. That restaurant was a critical stop for us later that evening after we’d toured the bars up and down the street on which the Androy sits.
The hotel has some really old-​school themes and charm. It has a big old registration counter, some cool motifs and fixtures, an ancient elevator and a Shining-​esque character to it that makes you think the hotel itself is a living, breathing entity. The room wasn’t fancy but perfectly fine, the bed was comfortable and we had windows out onto the street, which gave us a towering view of the night life below. I’ve stayed in some crappy places over the years, and I had nothing to complain about with the Androy. What’s great about places like this is that whatever you don’t get in terms of modern architecture and amenities, you reap in personality and eye candy.
You even get some weird TV channels to go along with it. I, too, noticed that there were permanent residents in the hotel, which just added to the intrigue and mystique of the place. The idea that people live there year-​round is just fascinating, because after only one night I was hooked. I would definitely recommend the Androy to anyone staying in Superior, and I look forward to returning someday. The place was built in the 20s, and hopefully it’ll be around well into the future.

In the pantheon of drunken flop houses at which I’ve enjoyed a drunken night of sleep, this place has to be at or near the top. Whenever my liver has been naughty, I usually high-​tail it up to Soup Town to teach that goddamn liver who is boss, and the Androy is the only place I stay.
The main draw of the Androy is its convenient location — a few yards across the street to the Capri Lounge, and centrally located on Main, which houses about sixteen imbibing stations (including the Main Club, which can come in handy if you are in the mood for a mustachioed stud in assless leather chaps… plus, the Main usually has fishbowls full of free condoms, so that’s a plus). Location is key, and the Androy cornered the market in Superior.
The hotel itself is a throwback to the days when hotel rooms had actual metal keys (this one still does), the front desk smelled of rich mahogany and Winner 120 Menthols (it still does), and the hotel lobby included a sitting area furnished with outdoor furniture ripped from a Montgomery Wards catalog circa 1981 (true story). The rooms are small, and there is a good chance that your hotel neighbor will have personalized their door with a knick-​knack (think «Bless our Mess») as The Androy also serves as a long-​term residence for what appear to be many full-​time inhabitants. I’m not sure if they stay for the low rates, the bathroom fixtures that don’t work and were designed for people the size of garden gnomes, or if it is the 19-​inch color TV in each room, but I won’t speculate on the buying decisions of people who choose to live in a hotel.
Rates range from Cheap to Extremely Cheap (I’ve never paid more than $ 50 for a room). The next time you decide to pickle your liver in Superior, The Androy is a good money saver. The beds are relatively comfortable, the shower does produce water, the air conditioning usually works, and if you vomit on the carpet you don’t feel bad since the carpet is usually crunchy before you arrive anyway. Overall, a good experience and well worth your $ 48.50.