First, I'd like to talk about the things I really liked about this place. The check-in lady was extremely polite and friendly and helpful. The location is great, very close to downtown Dubuque and situated next to a wonderful restaurant called Timmerman's supper club where the food is fantastic. The place was extremely quiet, no slamming of doors throughout the evening to make sleep difficult, which is something that I really hate about most hotels in urban areas. Everything in the room was relatively clean.
Negatives were few, but substantial enough to mention. When I turned on the water for the bathtub, it ran completely brown for about a minute, extremely hard water and it look like it had not been run for a very long time. I can also taste the impurities in my coffee. The worst negative was the bed, which was hard as a rock. To offset this, they provided four pillows for each of the beds, so I made myself a platform of pillows to lay on, at about 4:00 a.m., which seemed to help a lot.
Also on Expedia, they said that the bathtub would have jets, which I was looking forward to, but was not the case. This place is pretty bare bones on the second floor. I guess the first floor has beds with some sort of electrical life force generators and probably has more amenities but is significantly more expensive. That's what the front desk lady told me. I might have to come back here sometime and try those out.
All in all, not a bad place to stay if you can tolerate very firm mattres