This boutique hotel is located on Nicollet Island, across the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis The hotel offers an award-winning restaurant, lounge and free Wi-Fi Nicollet Island Inn features a plasma-screen TV and work desk in every guest room Rooms also provide designer bath amenities, bathrobes and high thread-count sheets Guests can enjoy fine dining at the Nicollet Islands scenic dining room or outdoor patio Boom Island Park is within a 5-minute drive of the Nicollet Island Inn in Minneapolis The University of Minnesota-Minneapolis is less than 2 miles away