Some of the rooms in the Belvada, including room 32 where we are staying, have full kitchenettes, including a microwave and conventional oven with a full stove top, a sink, a half-size refrigerator with a small freezer compartment, and a Lavazza cartridge coffee maker. Things are a lot nicer nowadays than they were at the turn of the previous century!īecause a lot of hotel room photos miss things that Lisa and I think important, we took a bunch of photos before we moved into the room. This painting in the coffee shop shows the tent of Jim Butler, who founded Tonopah when his mule kicked up high-grade silver ore. For a full breakfast, patrons are invited to visit the Pittman Cafe in the Mizpah across the street. There is a small coffee shop off the Belvada lobby, open in the mornings only, selling pastries, tea, and coffee drinks. Maybe I should establish it as my office during the convention? Kuma Bear is testing out the comfy seats. Just off the main lobby is a small lounge built inside what used to be the safe for the bank that was originally in this building. The Mizpah Hotel is diagonally opposite from the Belvada. However, there are other hotels in Tonopah that are less expensive. The Belvada is frankly the most expensive of Tonopah's hotels as far as I can tell, with prices comparable to some of the other hotels where Westercon has been held. The windows here face onto Tonopah's main street, and look across to the Jim Butler Inn & Suites, which is a decent hotel catering to more budget-minded travelers. Here's what the Belvada looks like from the Mizpah. Tonopah Family Fitness is visible to the right, and according to the hotel guide, is available to the guests of the hotel. This sign is on the front side of the hotel on the main street. This is the side entrance to the hotel, closer to the parking lot, and where the accessible entrance ramp is (and where we could roll the luggage cart out to the parking lot.) The Belvada shares the parking lot of the Tonopah Convention Center, which shows you how close they are to each other. Lisa and I used one to bring our luggage from the adjacent parking lot. They have two carts available for customer use. This picture, incidentally, is in the elevator lobby. They could essentially gut the building to the bare walls and start over. The Belvada started as a bank, and has been over its lifetime offices, apartments, and all manner of other things. The Mizpah is a historic landmark, and the rebuild there needed to maintain the existing historic hotel. Unlike the Mizpah, however, the Belvada restoration was something of a clean slate. The Belvada is the sister property to the Mizpah Hotel. So yesterday evening we checked into the Belvada Hotel in Tonopah.
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