Rooms · 360 sq ft
Rocalvina King
The towboats run all night and you will hear them. Most people find they sleep better for it.
From$149/ night
Check datesDubuque, Iowa
The river sets
the pace
A hundred and seventy rooms on the levee, with a moored 1927 riverboat as the casino and a porch two hundred feet long facing the water.
Where you sleep
Where you actually sleep
All rates below are per room per night before tax, and every one of them is refundable on the flexible plan.
All accommodationRooms · 410 sq ft
Porch Double
French doors onto the porch and two rockers outside them that are yours for the stay.
From$169/ night
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Rooms · 440 sq ft
Pilothouse King
You can see three miles upstream from these, which is enough warning to finish a drink before a tow passes.
From$209/ night
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Captain's Suite
Framed river charts from the 1930s, a working fire and a table for six by the window.
From$379/ night
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Suites · 1200 sq ft
The Wheelhouse
Two bedrooms and a round sitting room with the river on three sides and a telescope that works.
From$679/ night
Check datesWhat there is to do
The part that is not the casino
Guided options run daily in season and can be arranged out of it with a day's notice.
Everything here
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The Boat
Gaming
A 1927 riverboat moored at the levee, restored over four years, with three decks of gaming under the original tin ceilings. Four hundred machines and 22 tables.
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The Mississippi
Water
Paddlewheel cruises twice daily, a lock and dam you can watch work, and fishing guides who have run this stretch their whole lives.
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The Bluffs
Outdoors
Four hundred feet of limestone bluff behind the town, with a funicular that has run since 1882 and trails along the top.
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The Boathouse
Spa
Six treatment rooms in the old boathouse, a sauna facing the water and a hot pool on the deck.
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Eat and drink
Cooking worth the trip on its own
One room for a long dinner, one for a fast one, and one that is open when nothing else is.
All venues
The Rocalvina
River kitchen · $$$
Catfish, walleye and pork from farms upriver, with a pie list that changes daily.
Dinner nightly
Towboat
Tavern · $$
A long bar, a fire, and a fish fry on Friday that the whole town turns up to.
11 AM–1 AM
The Porch
Breakfast & lunch · $
Breakfast on the porch from six, and a plate lunch that has not changed in twenty years.
6 AM–3 PM
Pilot Bar
Cocktails · $$$
On the boat's upper deck, with rye, river light and a piano on Saturdays.
4 PM–midnight
Rocalvina Bakehouse
Bakery · $
Kolaches, cinnamon rolls and coffee, mostly sold to people on their way to work.
6 AM–2 PM
170
Rooms and suites
1927
Year the boat was launched
5
Restaurants and bars
200
Feet of river porch
Offers
Worth planning around
Combine with nothing, unfortunately — but the discount is taken off the real rate, not an inflated one.
Code RIVERDAYS
River Days
Third night free
Three nights, pay for two, with a paddlewheel cruise for two included.
Terms and bookingCode EAGLESEagle Season
25% off, November to March
The eagles come down to the open water below the dam and there are hundreds of them.
Terms and bookingFriday Fish Fry
Two nights over a Friday
Two nights including a Friday, with the fish fry and a round each at Towboat.
Terms and bookingGetting here
5 Levee Street
Dubuque, IA 52001
- Free self-parking for every guest
- Fifteen minutes from the station, an hour from the coast
- (563) 555-0196 — reservations, 7 AM to 9 PM
