Inn At Price Tower

First thing's first: adjust your expectations. This is a historic venue. Sometimes the showers take a long time to heat up and sometimes they stay lukewarm. Sometimes it's hot or cold because there are no individual thermostats. Fans and heaters are provided aa needed. I haven't stayed in the winter, but in the summer, once the sun goes down, with the fans, it's quite pleasant.I stayed in the king bed two story suite. It's airy, full of light, roomy, beautiful. I adore the tall windows. There is a TV upstairs and downstairs. The bed is plush and comfy and the linens crisp, fresh, and clean.The bathroom is quite small, but inline with FLW and the times.The facility gives tours and they are interesting and enlightening! There is a restaurant on site, open Tuesday through Saturday (reviewed separately). It's the closest thing you get to elevated in Bartlesville. They have trivia Tuesdays, wine Wednesday, live entertainment Thursday, karaoke Friday, and regular Saturdays.Staff is always wonderful. Highly recommended. But please don't rate this unique, historical site on the same plane as four seasons.

Are you a Frank Lloyd Wright aficionado? Keep reading...The Inn at Price Tower is a Wright time capsule and well worth the time and expense to visit this building and immerse yourself in the architectural experience. I'm a retired architect and a big FLW fan.The "hospitality side" (ie: what normal consumers expect from a hotel property) is pretty non-existent. Let me explain:Not to get into mechanical engineering weeds, but the building has a 2-pipe HVAC system. This means that the entire building is either heating or cooling depending upon the season. No matter how hot or cold you may be in your hotel room, if the system is in heating mode (wintertime) there is no A/C available. Likewise, if the system is in cooling mode (summertime), there is no heating available. We stayed 2 nights in early May so the heating was still on (kind of between seasons), but since there was an oscillating fan available in our room, we were fairly comfortable sleeping. Not really a biggie, just be aware of the building's heating/cooling limitations.The other thing really perplexing was that there was no coffee service available in the morning. The in-house restaurant did not offer breakfast, the Lobby area provided no guest coffee service and there was no in-room coffeemaker provided - weird! In the last 30 years of business travel I can't recall a similar situation. In order to get coffee, guests are required to walk 2 blocks to a local coffee shop that opens at 6am weekdays and 7am weekends. Super inconvenient from a "hospitality" standpoint.So, if you're familiar with Wright's design sensibilities, you'll recall that he never had much use for bathrooms and elevators - both of which are super small by modern standards and current building codes. Don't expect the spa level experience you may have enjoyed at other boutique hotels - they 'aint there, lol! If you go into the Inn at Price Tower experience with a "Wright state of mind", you'll enjoy your stay and be able to forgive the limitations of the design.The tour is well worth the price, and I highly recommend participating. Our group consisted of only me and my wife, so it was basically a private tour. It was advertised as a 60-minute tour, but our Dosen gave us nearly 2 hours! Really interesting.Take-a-ways: Bring you own coffee maker and breakfast items. Be prepared for the seasonal interior heating or cooling situation and be sure to have reasonable expectations for living in a Wright-designed building for a night or two. If you have these, your experience will be a lot of fun. Enjoy!

This was worth the stay and the tour was very good. This isn't a high end luxury hotel. It's a clean, spacious, historic hotel. The AC in the room wasn't working well but the oscillating fan made up for it. It was never uncomfortable in the room temperature-wise. The shower is kind of neat the way it was designed but the water didn't stay in the shower area and the bath mat was soaking wet by the time 1 person showered. The tour was excellent! We learned a lot about Price Tower and the history of the Prices and what the thought process was of Wright when he designed it. Price (no relation) was a great tour guide and knew a lot about the building and its architecture. I highly recommend staying here AND taking one of the tours. They definitely need donations to help restore the building to its former glory.

I am speaking on behalf of a half dozen vendors I work with. They tease Each other and even try to trick each other into staying here. Nothing against the building. It's a architectural treasure. But you don't find hotels in museums for a reason. I always hear complaints about rooms being small, ac or heating issues, etc, etc... Unless you just want to sleep in a famous building , stay somewhere else and go visit the museum.

What appear to be bullet holes in the wall, red splatter on the phone and bathroom door, wallpaper peeling off the wall. Dirty as all getout. Definitely not what we were expecting for $258 a night! Run far and fast from this run down "hotel".We booked 2 rooms for 2 nights based on the pictures and descriptions on their website and were disappointed when we arrived to what you see in the images I posted of our 2 story suite. We cancelled both rooms immediately and booked a hotel nearby and were not issued a refund!!! Frank Lloyd Wright would be disappointed in what's happened to his work. The place is unbelievably dirty and disgraceful.I posted a few pictures I took of the room before exiting to find another hotel to stay in. I didn't have time to go back downstairs to get a shot of the peeling wallpaper but I think this is more than enough to give you the idea.

Feels futuristic even though it was designed a century ago.I'm not formally trained in architecture but I am I fan of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. Staying at the Inn at Price Tower has been on my bucket-list for at least 20 years. My wife suggested pairing a stay here with a visit to the Pioneer Woman's Mercantile in Pawhuska, OK. She gets her thing, I get mine --- win/win.Driving in from Tulsa was uneventful; State Route 75 is a straight shot to Bartlesville. Check-in Parking was not clearly marked -- there are two parking lots (actually three) adjacent to the tower. Inn parking is on the West side of the tower on S Dewey Ave. That was about the only negative event for our entire stay.Just gazing up at Price Tower is all you will need to know that this is a special building. Its art deco ornamentation and alternating green and white bands practically shout its uniqueness. Upon entry to the building, we were greeted with a two-story tall foyer though small, was impressive with its open-air second-story balcony and angular shape. One quick turn to the left and we were in the Inn's lobby with its massive copper cloisonné mural.The Inn's staff greeted us warmly, swiped a credit card for incidentals, and assigned us our rooms (did I mention my mother-in-law came with us? LOL) on the twelfth floor. Yes, the elevators are small but there are three for a 19-story building. There was never a long delay to get an elevator.Since we got two rooms, we were able to compare the King room to the Two Queens room. Well, the King room is considerably smaller. If I were to stay here again, I would take the two queen room for the extra space for luggage and stuff. That said, the King room wasn't unbearably small; just when compared to the other. And yes, my mother-in-law offered to switch rooms with us and I declined.Let's get this straight - Price Tower was designed in the 1920s and built in the 1950s as a combination office-residence-retail tower. Three-fourths of the tower were offices; one fourth of the tower contained eight two-story apartments. The lower floors were retail. Most Inn rooms are former office space -- horizontal single-pane windows and copper louvers. Only the expensively-priced Inn lofts are in former residential space -- vertical single-pane windows and copper louvers. It will get hot in the summer and cold in the winter, but the Inn does provide heaters and fans to every room for extreme weather. It was high 90s during our stay and our fan kept us comfortable all night.But the rooms, the rooms! Every aspect of the building is architected to complement each other. The angles are irregular and the window panes meet at the corner of the room. The light fixtures are triangles facing outward -- pointing us toward the Oklahoma prairie and rolling hills surrounding Bartlesville. The décor is mid-century as would be the norm when the tower opened. My wife commented that she felt like The Jetsons. I did too which is remarkable because this space was designed almost a century ago.A restful sleep and free breakfast on the 16th floor. Andrew greeted breakfast-goers good morning between songs, and cooked eggs to order for those who wished. Our stay was comfortable and enjoyable. Such a treat to actually spend a night in a Wright-designed building. I think I'm going to put "Another night in Price Tower" on my bucket-list.

If you are interested in architecture....REAL architecture.....you MUST pay a visit to Price Tower in Bartlesville, OK. Price Tower is the only realized skyscraper structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. From the moment we entered the building, we were amazed by the beauty and more importantly, the quirky details that make it unique.The lobby of Price Tower contains the second largest Cloisonné mosaic in the world. Bold colors pop out of a background of beautiful gold - I literally thought I was on a movie set. Unlike a museum, the building felt like it was alive and new. One of the quirkier features at Price Tower are the elevators. Apparently, Frank didn't like to wait on them....so he put FOUR in this building. They are extremely small (4 people with a tight fit - 2 people with suitcases). And when you push the UP button, it's anybody's guess as to which one will open first!We stayed in room 104 (10th Floor). Beautiful room - and you can open up the windows! When was the last time you could do that? And what can I say about the copper! The outside is covered with copper "leaves". The windows have chained copper drapes! There's a copper bar! Frank loved copper!I would encourage anyone who goes there to take the guided tour. It's less than one hour and you get to see some of the rooms not open to the general public. They also ask that you not take pictures of some of the rooms. Which I didn't....but it was challenging to abstain.The beds were extremely comfortable. The shower in our room was big enough for one person. Also, it had about 11 different angles....no kidding. We loved our stay and definitely recommend it to anyone who appreciates history, architecture and beauty. If budget is an issue.....we found an affordable room rate on Expedia. When we arrived, I asked the manager if there was a room available that he would recommend. Originally, we had a king sized bed, but on his recommendation we switched to two doubles....which gave us more room and a nice view of the city.

It takes more than history to make a hotel worth spending the night in. The rooms were so grimy (stains, wall paper peeling from the walls, etc.) that we ended up just booking rooms elsewhere and losing out on the money we wasted on this dump. Such a shame. How hard is it to keep the place clean and maintained, especially at the outrageous premium they charge per night? Come on folks. You are not even trying.

It's really hard to decide how many stars to award. Five for the coolness of the experience? One for the comfort of the room? I recommend you take the tour but stay somewhere else. At least, call ahead to see if everything is in working order, and check the weather. We stayed in June 2023. It was a bucket list stay for me. The place is amazing, but it has issues... namely the water and air temperature control. There was only hot water coming out of the faucets. Only scalding hot, unusable water! (The girl at the desk "thought they had fixed that.") Also, the building was not made with/for modern air conditioning or heating. We slept with the windows open and the provided fan on. There's also a provided space heater for winter. The bathroom has a heated floor, which you cannot adjust and was set at 85F and kept the already hot space even hotter. So if you like glamping, this might work for you. Otherwise, pick a different hotel to actually sleep (and shower) in. But go take the tour! This building is awesome!

We loved our stay here! We had a quick visit and decided to stay here, so glad we did. Large room, great view! The bathroom is small, but you didn't need much space anyway since the sink is in the room. I loved all the windows and they all opened! It was fun staying in a unique space!