Remote work has untethered a lot of us from a single desk, but it hasn’t made the logistics of a long trip any simpler. If you’re headed to Minneapolis for a month-long project, a contract, or just a change of scenery while you keep working, the real question is where to land. A hotel room wears thin quickly when you’re living and working inside it. Here’s the case for a furnished downtown studio instead, and what makes Oaklands on 9th a comfortable place to clock in.
A studio that doubles as your office
Every studio at Oaklands is fully furnished and move-in ready, with WiFi, all utilities, and heat included, so your first morning is about finding the coffee, not the router password. You get a full kitchen instead of a mini-fridge, room to spread out beyond the foot of a bed, and free on-site laundry for the weeks a carry-on can’t cover. There are three tiers, Good, Better, and Best, so you can match the space and the budget to how long you’re staying. Some units are pet friendly, too, so the dog can come along for the assignment.
It helps that the building itself is quiet. Oaklands is an 1889 brownstone, carefully restored in 2019, and its thick masonry walls make for a calmer backdrop on video calls than a typical hotel corridor.
Everything your workday needs is a walk away
Downtown Minneapolis is one of the easiest places in the country to live without a car. Oaklands sits within a short walk of the enclosed Minneapolis Skyway, roughly nine and a half miles of climate-controlled walkways linking offices, coffee shops, restaurants, and gyms, which is a genuine perk in January. When you need to range farther, the METRO light rail runs straight through downtown to the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, and the airport. We wrote a whole guide on getting around downtown without a car if that’s a deciding factor for you.
Flexibility a hotel can’t match
The real advantage of a furnished studio for a work trip is the terms. Oaklands is month-to-month with no contract, so you can stay a night, a week, or stretch it out if the project runs long, without the nightly-rate math that makes a month in a hotel painful. A full kitchen and free laundry quietly save money over weeks, too. If you’re weighing the two options, we broke down the trade-offs in furnished month-to-month vs. an extended-stay hotel.
When the laptop closes
A work trip shouldn’t be all work. Step out to the building’s garden patio for lunch, or use the skyway to reach Nicollet Mall, the riverfront, or a game at Target Field or U.S. Bank Stadium. If family flies in for a weekend, our sister property 300 Clifton, a historic mansion B&B, makes a memorable stay, and Minneapolis Trolley Tours is an easy way to show them the city. For everything else happening after five, Meet Minneapolis keeps a good running list.
Set up your Minneapolis work stay
If a month-long work trip or a stretch of remote work is on your calendar, we’d love to host you. Check availability and book a furnished studio at Oaklands on 9th, or call us at (612) 314-5124 and we’ll help you find the right fit.
Keep reading: ever wondered how a 130-year-old building delivers the fast internet and quiet climate control your work trip depends on? Here’s how our 1889 building got modern heat, AC, and fiber internet.