Positives: Spacious rooms with a great view of downtown. Yummy scrambled eggs on the breakfast buffet. Good pillows and plenty of towels. Negatives: TVs are old and have bad sound. The furniture is looking a bit tired and worn. The windowsills were dirty. If you order a vegetarian lunch, you will get veggies and carbs, but no protein. Odd experience:... more

A little on the pricier side but definitely worth it. It is a beautiful hotel inside and out. Has a restaurant/indoor pool/exercise room. There is a great view of the river and town from here. It is also very close to the Wells Fargo arena. The rooms are large with a bedroom with tv and then also has a living... more

I can't recommend this hotel. I walked in and the smell of stale smoke in a supposedly non-smoking room was overpowering. After running the fan for two hours the smell was still there. The rear window in the room opened on to the roof of another part of the hotel. There were numerous cigarette butts outside of the window and... more

The hotel is located on the Des Moines river and its pleasant walking paths. It is also midway between the East Village, a collection of new and old businesses (and one dynamite restaurant, Lucca) and the downtown business center that has several good restaurants (but no retail to speak of). Most of downtown is within walking distance. Room service was... more

We recently stayed at the Embassy Suites on the River in Des Moines and have no doubt where we will stay each and every time we go to Des Moines from now on! The room was clean, comfortable and updated. The staff were all pleasant and helpful, the breakfast was magnificent and the Manager's Reception was a lot of fun!... more

The hotel is on the river front. It's about 1/2 mile from the Capitol and the Iowa Cubs park. It has the standard embassy suites design with the open atrium and the rooms arranged around a center courtyard. This design is always noisy when I have stayed there - the atrium just seems to magnify the noise even if there's... more

We stayed here for 4 nights for our son's wedding. We were very pleasantly surprised. The hotel is beautiful, as well as the surrounding area. The beds were extremely comfortable and the hotel was quiet, even though we saw a lot of teens (looked like from a track meet ). The two rooms were nice also, as our teen daughter... more

I was nervous from reading some of the reviews but ended up very pleased. I thought the lobby was pretty. Our suite was very nice and clean. I found the staff to be accomadating. I was inpressed by the breakfast. I will definately stay here again. more

I travel to Embassy Suites all over the country old and new. This hotel is so far below Embassy Standards its unbelievable. The rooms are so musty that you could see the dust blowing in the sunlight when the fan was running. They bolted the window shut so I couldn't get a breath of fresh air in my room. The... more