SkiAdcock

Hotel website:

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/trave...ph-collection/

Opening July 2017. Category 6.

The Current is located in the heart of Downtown Davenport which makes it the perfect place to experience the Quad Cities. The Figge Museum, Mississippi River, RiverCenter, and Adler Theatre are all within walking distance.

"Our luxury boutique hotel features 78 rooms including 30 suites.Try UP, which is the Quad Cities first rooftop bar/restaurant and lounge that offers commanding views of the Mississippi. Or, try VIVA our Baja/Meican restaurant. Our art inspired hotel pays homage to the best of midwestern artists. Our brand promise is that we take an artful approach to guest service.Our pride is reflected in the language of our collateral and our guest interactions. Sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River, The Current offers easy access to the Quad Cities and is within walking distance of bike paths, Adler Theatre, RiverCenter and Figge Art Museum. The Current offers two dedicated meeting rooms on the second floor. Or, choose private meeting space in VIVA's private dining room and/or our Tequila Tasting Room. The Current offers guest engaging and soulful rooms draped in warm tones and filled with modern conveniences."

SkiAdcock

Property now open. No lounge; full breakfast in restaurant for G/Ps.

Cheers

Horace

Yesterday, I visited The Current Iowa, Autograph Collection in Davenport, Iowa. I did not stay there, but I talked to the front desk and bell services.

First, it's beautiful property. I visited the ground floor, where registration and the Viva restaurant are located. Although it was closed at the time of my visit, I was allowed to see Up, the rooftop cocktail lounge and breakfast restaurant, with view of Mississippi River. The hotel is in the Putnam Building (1910), the final work designed work by legendary architect and planner Daniel Burnham. The interior in very modern and art-focussed, but they've also kept vintage building features where possible.

Viva, the main restaurant, is far larger than what would be needed just for guests of a 78-room hotel. The main entrance to Viva faces the street. I like it when a hotel restaurant knows it can't just rely on a captive audience.

The Tequila Tasting Room is not yet open.

Here's what Gold and Platinum Elite guests get:

Lounge access to the second-floor lounge, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, for complimentary fruit, hot appetizers, and beverages (including beer and wine, but not liquor). The lounge does not serve breakfast.

Continental breakfast or $8 off anything on the breakfast menu, at Up, the rooftop restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. $8 may not seem like much, but this is Davenport, Iowa, not New York City. I did not see the breakfast menu, but all cooked-to-order breakfast items at the hotel's sister property (Hotel Blackhawk, Autograph Collection in Davenport) were priced at $11, including coffee and juice, when I stayed there a few months ago.

Upgrades to junior suites are common for Platinum guests (and probably not uncommon for Gold guests either). The hotel has just 78 rooms, and 30 of these are junior suites or larger.

And, of course, the usual welcome gift for Platinum guests (500 points or $10 food/beverage).

I hope to stay there some time, but have no current plans for The Current Iowa.

SkiAdcock

Thanks for the update. The FDC didn't mention a lounge to me at all & the website doesn't reflect it AFAIK (or didn't last time I checked). I'll add it plus your info re: brekkie to the exec lounge sticky. Appreciate you taking the time to stop by & get info for your fellow FTers.

Cheers.

dreidel

Just to add to this, as I'm staying at the Current, as we speak:
1) Free valet parking at the Main Street entrance
2) Hotel guests get "VIP Access" to Up, the lounge on the rooftop, which is also where breakfast is served. The front desk said that if there is a line, they will escort guests to the front
3) Upgraded to a King Executive Suite. Gorgeous new room, with Keurig machine, "pet," (mine was a cute dog figurine - each room is different), and..... TOTO heated toilets/bidets
4) super friendly staff
5) The concierge lounge is called the Club Room, and is only available to Platinum members. It is on the second floor and open M-Th 6AM-10PM and Fri 6-11AM. Since it's Saturday, I'm not able to test it out.
This hotel is very boutiquey and modern, almost the opposite (not in a good or bad way) of the Blackhawk.

Very happy so far.

obunewbie17

I'm staying here right now, and I definitely concur with most of this. It's a gorgeous property, I have been treated very well and received a suite upgrade. Easy access to various restaurants and hangout spots nearby. One thing of note -- the rooftop bar has altered hours in the winter. It's only open on Friday and Saturday, instead of daily (spring-fall).

chicaloca453

Since you've stayed at both, which do you prefer? Have a 4 night stay in Quad Cities in July and both are comparably priced.

MSPeconomist

obunewbie17

Lounge on the second floor has free beer/wine and snacks/appetizers. They tend to leave out fruit, granola bars, and light to-go snacks throughout the day, and there's finger food/appetizers later in the afternoon.

I don't think they had full breakfast there in the lounge, but they just recently switched the food/menu at the restaurant, so not sure if that could have an impact on the offerings in the lounge.

Horace

I’ve wanted to stay at The Current, Autograph Collection in Davenport, Iowa, ever since I took a look at it in August 2017. It looked like such a promising property.

It’s now almost five years later. Last week, on Thursday night, my wife and I finally stayed there for one night.

There were several disappointments.

I booked a King Standard. I used a Suite Night Award to confirme an upgrade to a “1 Bedroom Larger Apartment,” but on my day of arrival, we were downgraded to a smaller “1 Bedroom Executive Suite.” No apology. No “something extra” to make up for it. Just an explanation that there was a maintenance issue in the apartment category.

If the downgrade had been my only disappointment, I would have shrugged it off. The suite was still a real suite with a separate bedroom. It had a small living room, but a good-sized bedroom and a huge bathroom with lots of marble, a separate tub and shower, and a high-tech toilet.

A bigger disappointment was dinner.

We had dinner in the hotel’s restaurant, City Loafers, featuring “exciting handcrafted sandwiches, salads or soups.” The Gem Salad with “bibb and romaine lettuce” contained not a single leaf of bibb lettuce. The sandwich with a “marinated and grilled portabella mushroom” had a cold, raw mushroom. The “house chips” that came with my wife’s hamburger were burnt to a dark brown. And it all took much too long. They tried to fix things, but it was not a pleasant meal. I would recommend avoiding City Loafers.

The biggest disappointment was breakfast. It was worst lounge breakfast I’ve ever seen at any Marriott Bonvoy property — or any Marriott Rewards property or any SPG property before the programs merged.

The Current, Autograph Collection has a small lounge that’s open on weekdays. The breakfast offering was pitiful. There was one kind of muffin, packages of a few different cereals, little containers of milk, potato chips, some whole fruit, little cans of off-brand juice, bottled water, some candy bars, plastic cutlery, and a coffee machine without a decaf option. That’s it. No plates. No cut fruit. No steam trays. No bread. No pastries. No attendant.

Okay, this “spread” could be considered a continental breakfast — at a low-end economy hotel. But The Current is supposed to be an Autograph Collection property! I talked to the front desk about this. If I didn’t like the lounge, I could buy breakfast in the hotel restaurant — but, because there’s a lounge with some food items, restaurant breakfast would be full price, despite my Titanium Elite status.

Technically, the hotel fulfilled its obligation for Guaranteed Lounge Access, so I could not invoke the guarantee and ask for compensation.

On weekends when the lounge is closed, guests who are Platinum Elite (and above) get a $10 credit in the restaurant — which is, of course, inadequate and a clear violation of the terms & conditions.

I hate being so negative. I don’t like to complain. So let me close with a few positive comments.

The Current, Autograph Collection is a short walk from the Figge Art Museum, a wonderful 4-level museum with excellent permanent and temporary exhibits. It's open late Thursday evenings.

The lounge has free bottled beer (but no wine) in the evening (although it closes and is locked at 8 p.m.)

The toiletries were excellent.

The front desk employees are friendly.

The lobby has interesting art.

The hotel has an open-air parking lot across the street. Parking used to be free, but is now $12. When we returned around 5 p.m., there were only two spots left. But parking was a convenient for us.

Sadly, The Current, Autograph Collection is now on my very short list of “don’t stay there” Marriott Bonvoy properties.

Mr. BoH

This property seems to have given up on having a proper restaurant, which is too bad because the old one was pretty good. The rooftop bar is cool, but not really set up for having a full meal.

CALMSP

the taco place on the first floor is no more?

Mr. BoH

Nope. Replaced by some kind of sandwich place. I was underwhelmed.

Horace

I was beyond underwhelmed by City Loafers, the restaurant that replaced Viva. See my reasons, posted in this thread on July 27, 2022.

I was also beyond underwhelmed by the elite lounge breakfast.

I had such high hopes for The Current Iowa, Autograph Collection.

LSEGallipot

When I saw this thread jump up, I thought it might be in response to the apartment building collapse Sunday evening located a mere three blocks from the hotel.