Hotel Magdalena

Hotel is a beautiful niche hotel located in a great place in Austin. That's where the good things stop. Was awaken every morning at 6am with garbage trucks and delivery vans. Front desk staff can never be found, and when they are around not very responsive to customer needs. Also, the restaurant and bar close at 10pm which is pretty early for Austin. I would a different Bunkhouse location, but will not likely use Hotel Magdalena again.

Amazing experience overall and will stay again when I'm back in Austin! The room was impeccably clean, and I loved the overall minimalist, funky design. I was in town following a friend's event in Round Rock and did a solo stay in Austin after. Hotel Magdalena was a fab choice, especially as a solo traveler. The property felt very safe and well-maintained.

This hotel only makes sense as a place to crash if you are so drunk that passing out is inevitable. This is a dive motel disguised as a boutique hotel. The courtyard area is beautiful with a bar that makes fantastic drinks and amazing food in the afternoon. In the evening you are invited to join the party and it is loud. Our room was so dysfunctional as to be laughable. No lights installed and the switch did nothing. A walk in closet with a tiny hanging bar in the corner and no shelves or drawers. The room had no shelves or drawers for clothes. The mini bar was well stocked of course. A huge bathroom with a tiny sink table, no tub, just empty space, and a tiny bedroom area. The worst part is that the motel is in an alley behind a large, popular bar with a garbage and recycling depot right next to the rooms. They are pouring bottles into metal bins until 2am. At 6am, trucks start coming in to pick up each type of bin until 9am, then they come back to replace the bins with new ones and they bang those large, metal bins around. The front desk is well aware of the complaints when they check you in.

The rooms are humid, and it is always noisy early in the mornings due to garbage trucks and delivery trucks right outside the windows. I've stayed here at least 5 times, and every room has always been noisy. Other than that, the hotel is beautiful, and the interior design is fantastic. The customer service is accomodating and the restaurant is good.

Lovely hotel, just has most of the rooms next to a street where trash and recycling is dumped every night and picked up by trucks early in the morning, so everyone in our group in their separate rooms were woken up every single night. It sounded like someone was dumping 100 glass bottles into a dumpster from a 30 foot drop. If you can stay in the building by the pool, you’re set.