Oskaloosa’s newest hotel held a ribbon-cutting Thursday (9/10).  The Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott is located at Highway 92 near Highway 163.  Oskaloosa Mayor David Krutzfeldt gives the hotel a five star review.

“I’m very, very pleased with what I’m seeing.  I think it makes a tremendous welcome for anyone who is traveling to Oskaloosa and the surrounding area.  They talk about having 76 rooms in it.  Since this is a new hotel, all the folks who were staying away from Oskaloosa, now there’s 76 rooms worth of capacity that we have here.  So I think it’s going to make a tremendous impact (on the local economy).”

Fairfield Inn and Suites also has meeting space and an indoor swimming pool.  Swift Hospitality Group of Freeport, Illinois is operating the hotel.