Hotel Napoleon, Memphis
Expert reviews
“The 1902-vintage Winchester office building has recently been repurposed as the Hotel Napoleon Memphis with 58 crisp rooms. In addition to its pedestrian-friendly downtown location, the hotel houses a restaurant serving breakfast and dinner, and offers free coffee anytime in the lobby.”
Featured in New York Times’ 36 Hours in Memphis.
What guests liked
- Top location
- Beale Street
- Friendly staff
- Spacious rooms
- Excellent Wifi
All you need to know
Located nearly a kilometer away from the main city center of Memphis, the venue is one of the best stays for tourists. Brown Park is one of the major tourist destinations in Memphis, which falls just one and half a kilometer away from the hotel. The modern expectation of the guests is met here. There are 58 rooms for the guests to stay. The venue is the perfect place to experience historical architectural style and at the same time meeting the modern needful.
Some of the equipment made available in the hotels for ensuring ultimate comfort to the guests are microwave, high ceiling, work desk, shower, bathtub, hairdryer, etc. It welcomes its guests with all the warmth ensuring home-like comfort and a sophisticated experience during the stay. The hotels also offer not just this but high-speed internet and free parking. Hotel Napoleon is just 20 minutes drive away from the international airport of Memphis.
Comforts also include a safe elevator for the guests so that they can comfortably reach their rooms. The major plight of people while being out for holidays is the discontinued fitness regime. Here in the Hotel Napoleon, there is a fitness center for the guests so that they can keep up with their gym and fitness regime.
Few other things included amongst the facilities are high internet speed, business center, baggage store, bars, restaurants, etc. Rooms are provided with coffee makers, flat-screen TV with popular channels, etc. You can ultimately experience antique-designed hotels providing all the modern services, and at the same time, you can even visit your desired destination without having to cover much distance.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
18 January 2025
Exceptional
Location was perfect and Rocky at the front desk was extremely helpful!
8 January 2025
Great Hospitality & Location, Food, Parking & the best Guest Service Team I've ever encountered!
My stay was more than I could have asked for! Every request was met with pleasure! I'd stayed at Hotel Napoleon once before in celebration of my Anniversary in 2022. It's been 2 years & I was worried that the hotel & service may have declined. However, what I found was a more streamlined experience - Before, During & After the stay! The entire experience exceeded every expectation & pre notion that I had before my stay! Hotel Napoleon is my go-to hotel when in need of a Memphis hotel! Thanks Hotel Napoleon! PS. John, YOU ROCK!
There was nothing that I didn’t like.
3 January 2025
A retro classic located in the heart of the most dangerous city in America
The staff is nice. Everyone from the front desk to the restaurant in the lobby, they were all hospitable. Liked the look and feel of the hotel also.
Traveling with kids, we booked one of their nicer suites. What sucked was being told at the check-in that all of their suites are in the basement. Yes. Basement. We got into the elevator in the lobby and went down to get to our suite, past their laundry/cleaning facility and all that crap smdh. Basically we stayed underground at an old hotel and paid the premium for it. And that really sucked.
12 December 2024
Exceptional
Great location for the Memphis St. Jude Marathon.
13 November 2024
Excellent service! Brilliant hotel 😀
Excellent service. Your staff were outstanding. Especially Timothy who went the extra mile when we arrived as a last minute booking late at night. Everyone went out of their way to make our stay very memorable, including the kind lady who arranged a lovely bottle of fizz for my birthday. I would highly recommend your hotel. Thank you.
17 October 2024
Super clean and classy hotel in great location with really nice staff.
Staff. Super clean. Comfortable. Tasteful decor. Location. Allowed late check out.
Not super cheap but good value.
1 October 2024
Happy to have stayed with you!
Your staff is wonderful. Helpful,happy to assist, funny!
You ran out of coffee and danishes and never replaced then during the morning rush hour or in the evening
18 August 2024
Great experience
Location
Parking instructions
17 June 2024
Bad
The rooms were ok. There was a good amount of room to walk around and relax. The manager was out of town but she contacted me and helped with a resolution.
It was not clean. There was mold, stains on the walls, hair all over the bathroom wall, one of the towels were laid strange and had a dirty mark on it and there was a bottle cap in the bed frame. There were more issues that I took pictures of.
22 May 2024
Fabulous boutique hotel with great rooms and staff close to Fownton and Beale Street.
Efficient. Clean. Very quiet. Nice big room and spacious modern bath. Good spot to walk to Beale Street. Good parking next door.
There are lots of empty buildings around, which has nothing to do with this property, but I hope there’s more reinvestment like this!
19 May 2024
Bad
They wouldnt even let us check in even after we booked out hotel
11 May 2024
Clean but never again.
Room was clean
Crazy amount of traffic noise, difficult to park.
3 April 2024
Exceptional
Friendly staff, very quiet and convenient location.
1 October 2023
It was to Llosa around grace looas
It was clean staff we’re great and good location
All as adobe
10 September 2023
Nice comfortable room and quiet hotel afforded a good nights rest.
Historic building on corner of MADISON AVE and B B KING in downtown Memphis
Musty smell. Could see original curved window frame water damaged but another sealed inner window was on inner side of this exterior window. Needed repair though
9 August 2023
Lack of hot water and poor staff communication. Facilities beyond that absolutely 4*
The hotel absolutely met the star rating offered of 4*. It was a well put together hotel in the sense the accommodation was fresh, good condition, modern. Be warned, not all rooms have bathrooms with a door!
There was no hot water for the bulk of our stay. The hotel staff did not inform us of the issue, nor did they keep us informed of the issues. We arrived at 2am after almost 24 hours of travelling and we were not kept informed of any problems. The first we knew was when we had a shower and it was cold. The staff seemed either apathetic or disinterested and this frustrated us and a number of other guests. Whilst we accept it was not the staffs' fault, we still felt the staff could have been more informative. Our room card also needed remagnetising every day which became tiresome. Some guests look to have received a welcome bag on arrival- we did not.
4 August 2023
Dissappointing
Location. Towels and sheets
Not very clean. Room wasn’t ready for 1.5 hours after check in time. We asked twice for an estimated time it would be ready but reception staff weren’t able to provide. After 1 hour of waiting we were offered a “worse room with no view” if we wanted it.. no upgrade or compensation offered for the inconvenience.
5 June 2023
Had a great time in Memphis but hotel facilities are limited.
bedroom was quiet and spacious.
Sliding door to bathroom feel off rail twice. Also no breakfast available. No dining room.
16 May 2023
Love the location. Stayed there several times. The hotel has gone way downhill. No ice or water
Nothing
2 May 2023
Excellent location in corner room! Safety concerns need tending too immediately.
room 502
Safety concerns. Bathtub slick. Needs grab bars and non skid floor. All sharp corners of bed and desk need to be protected. Carpet needs replacement with solid color.
27 March 2023
it was decent
I like the parking and it’s convenience
it wasn’t as nice as the pictures portrayed
20 January 2023
Room had broken thermostat that hotel didn’t care enough to move me or fix.
The location and the aesthetic of the hotel were nice.
The thermostat was broken in my room. I set it to 68 and it was 76-77 degrees F the entire night. I didn’t sleep at all because I was drenched in sweat. I texted the number of the front desk rhat reached out to me to ask how my stay was going and got no response. When I told the front desk all they said was “sorry you cooked up there!” in a joking manner. It was miserable I will not stay again.
31 October 2022
perfect overnight stay!!!
conveniently located
26 October 2022
Exceptional
We loved that the hotel was close to downtown, Beale St.,Civil Rights Musuem and the River. The Hotel deserves a 5 in all areas.
22 August 2022
Good value for money
Excellent front office service by Rocky who was extremely helpful - rooms are a good size and located about 600m from Beale St
13 August 2022
Very good
location
bar was closed
9 August 2022
Not bad but not great either.
Decent room. Very comfortable bed.
Hard to figure out parking. Shower not very clean. Very musty in the room. Pretty expensive for what you get.
5 July 2022
disappointing
The pre-check in process and check in process is way t0o complex and confusing, needs to have a check in person on site. Price is too expensive for quality to site.
20 June 2022
They need to work on amenities
Good location. No cook so no full breakfast
Bed very uncomfortable. Room is small, no chairs
19 June 2022
decent
beautiful historic hotel
staff was short handed and didn’t get towels, cups, or coffee
16 June 2022
the room was clean and the location was convenient but not worth 300 a night
The room and the location were very nice, parking was very simple.
The restaurant, / bar associated with the hotel was absolutely horrendous and disgusting for a 4.5 star hotel. In fact we could not eat there. The bar was serving drinks at 8:30 am to two customers who were still drunk from the night before. There was a homeless woman asleep in the hotel lobby, who then walked into the bar /restaurant area and laid her head down on the table next to us. The woman bartender could not even make a cup of coffee. Instead of using individual creams to put in the coffee, she used a huge jug to over fill cup with cream, , ruining it. But the worst was the food, it was not editable. We ordered an egg wrap in a taco / tortilla shell and the shell was raw, not cooked and tasted like raw flower. and egg was not good. We had to leave and find other food elsewhere. We just wanted to leave, so we paid rather than making a scene and ate at Starbucks
11 June 2022
Very good
location
clean & staff was great
9 June 2022
Very poor
Staff
Room wasn't clean
4 June 2022
Very poor
Location
The staff for one was very confused on scheduling and seem very uncertain about the booking.com process. They could have told me on Thursday night that the price I had was before taxes. The hotel didn’t have parking we had to use the parking garage and that lady wasn’t helpful or friendly. The rooms are very very small, the vending machines were empty the whole weekend on the third floor and they didn’t have a well stocked snack area. No bathroom privacy. The bathroom door was a sliding farm door that had opens on both sides when it was closed. Definitely not working on!!! Mother wasn’t happy and she doesn’t complain about much!! Lol…..Feedback for you if plan to use them for future customers. Bad experience for us.
4 June 2022
Third words worst stay ever
Location hated the hotel
Rooms too small for the money, hotel food facility wasn’t convenient, only one elevator, wasn’t worth the money, no hotel parking…I could go on. Very unhappy
25 May 2022
Room was clean and comfortable.
Room was clean
Location was convenient but not in good area
16 May 2022
Lovely historic building with easy access to downtown. Armed security!
Beautiful building! comfortable room, nice bed.
Ice machine availability was a tiny challenge. Parking was a larger challenge, but not terrible.
4 May 2022
Would stay again
Room was prefect. Staff was awesome.
Elevators were extremely slow
30 April 2022
Very good
We felt that parking should have been included. We were not aware that the hotel did not have their own parking lot.
27 April 2022
Great stay
The property was very clean. and the beds was very soft. The room was also modernized. Looks real nice
Nothing
21 April 2022
Very good
Clean great staff ready to assist at all hours, shrt walk to Beale st and the Arena as well as alot of the restaurants
Can't find anything to complain about
21 April 2022
Blah.
the staff! The staff was amazing!
The room was… dated. Mold was present in the shower. Bed was uncomfortable and had lint rolls all over the sheets.
14 April 2022
Passable
Location
No parking, no breakfast, room smelled cigarette,
13 April 2022
the staff was the best part of the stay!
the staff was polite helpful and down right cool people
room was small there was no microwave.
4 April 2022
Pleasant
Great staff, location and old beautiful building.
The hotel needs up dating and repair, also it was not super clean.
26 March 2022
Generally not bad, but higher priced, maybe due to a local event?
Directly downtown, just minutes to Baele St, Main St or Mississippi Banks. Good bed, spacy room and shower, baggage drawer. Fridge avalable.
One elevator, very slow, in peak times need a lot of patience. Bar closes at 7pm. Climate in room good power, but apparently with some time schedules, so must be repeatedly adjusted...
22 March 2022
Beautiful spot in a great location.
We had a beautiful, large corner room, looking out onto Second and Madison. Comfortable king bed, nice linens. Beautiful shower too.
I think quite a bit of effort has gone into soundproofing for the outside noises but Memphis has a very noisy downtown with muscle cars and motorcycles revving motors and racing around. This is not a Hotel Napoleon problem, it’s a downtown problem.
17 March 2022
It’s nice…..
good location and cocktails
paper thin walls. it might be we had a (locked) adjoining room but we could hear everything next door
5 February 2022
Very good
Very nice staff, very cool and interesting building, and great location.
The parking is a little confusing. Had to use the garage next door and it wasn't user friendly.
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Snack bar
- - Kid meals (additional charge)
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Fruits (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Luggage storage
- - Concierge service
- - Private check-in/check-out
- - Invoice provided
Activities
- - Fitness centre
- - Fitness
- - Happy hour (additional charge)
General
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
- - Shuttle service (additional charge)
- - Vending machine (drinks)
- - Vending machine (snacks)
- - Minimarket on site
Business facilities
- - Business centre
- - Fax/photocopying
Cleaning services
- - Daily housekeeping
Parking
- - Parking garage
Accessibility
- - Wheelchair accessible
- - Toilet with grab rails
- - Higher level toilet
- - Lower bathroom sink
- - Visual aids: Braille
- - Visual aids: Tactile signs
Miscellaneous
- - Key card access
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Breakfast takeaway containers
- - Face masks for guests available
28 January 2025
Exceptional
Great location and comfortable clean facilities Rocky and the rest of the staff were amazing, very welcoming, and helpful
Everything was great