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Tahoe Inn
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- None
14 reviews for Tahoe Inn
I agree with most of the other reviewers and I think this place is just fine. You won't pay more than $30 mid-week during the ski season, and it's more than reasonably clean. The rooms are pretty big and the hotel is within walking distance from a bunch of restaurants and all the North shore casinos.
The back side is quieter, so you can always request a room over there if you want to rest. But, you ARE in Tahoe! Rest when you get home.
In all, you get much more than you pay for at this hotel.
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Guys, guys, guys. What do you expect for $19/night? That said, the Tahoe Inn has exceeded my expectations. The room is more than reasonably clean (a bit of Butterfinger wrapper under the bed never hurt anyone), basic cable (no HBO, boo), and more than enough room to spread out. Besides -- the location! You're across the street from the awesome Cal-Neva and next door to the Tahoe Biltmore, so just park your car and walk to anywhere you want to get drunk, eat, and gamble.
I'll be back for sure. Maybe my standards are lower than anyone else here. :)
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Spent the night there when I went to see the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare production of Much Ado about Nothing. Yes, most of the previous reviewers are correct, but if you know what you are getting yourself into it's not bad. We brought flip flops and air freshener. The place is really run down, but heck there's a bed and it's super cheap. We found the front desk help to be nice and helpful, but I was not going to let her be anything less. I had my positive psychology hat on. Would stay there again.
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This was one of the worst hotel's I've ever stayed at. Of course, you get what you pay for but I honestly don't care. It was disgusting! I will never stay here again. I don't care if it's $39 a night.
The first night I stayed in a room that had tiles falling out of place. They were literally hanging off the wall. There was mold all around the bathroom ceiling and a hole in the wall! I was scared to sleep in the bed so I stayed in a sleeping bag I brought along (thank god!). I had the hardest time falling asleep because I could hear foot steps OUTSIDE. Not outside the room, but outside. That is how thin the windows were. They also wasn't any sort of locking system on the windows so don't bring any valuables.
The second night was much better after upgrading to a room with a balacony but it was still no where near a decent night. Drunks came in at 1:50 am waking us up when we were getting up early to go boarding. We tried complaining to the front desk by calling and of course it was busy. We weren't able to get through for the half hour we tried. The walls here are super thin and the room is still very dirty feeling. We had to unplug the fridge because it was so loud.
All in all, if you're looking for a place to party this would be a good place since obviously the staff doesn't care how loud you are.
I don't care. I like this place. Its 22 dollars a night (if you book it early). Shove as many people as you can in there and its like 3-4 dollars a person. Its right across the street from the casinos so you can eat the 3.99 steak and egg dinner. I'm not saying this is a grand hotel with all the amenities but hey, I'm a broke college student. Gamble all night, drink all night, snowboard all day, eat cheap food 24/7 at the casinos and have a decent place to sleep. This place is good for the random snowboarding weekends. Plus there is a safeway about 10 minutes down N. Lake blvd road so if you get sick of eating the steak and eggs (haha) you can go get a nice salad.
Beds are whatever. I'm a clean freak so I bring my own blanket anyways and lay it over the bed. Pillows etc. Its nice. heater... front desk is attentive. I like this place and thats pretty hard for me to say..
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I'm not picky. As long as there's a bed, protection from the elements and reasonable cleanliness, I'm fine with it. But this place was so bad it was almost like some performace art interactive exhibit of what The Worst Accomodations Ever might be like.
Every conceivable surface has stains or burns of some kind. The beds either tilt to one side or sag in the middle or somehow do both at once. Artwork is ripped from the walls with nails sticking out from where it used to hang. And the smell... Stale cigarettes and high school cafeteria food mixed into an unholy olfactory alliance of demon stench. As Mookie mentioned, there is ZERO security and people are free to wander the inside hallways to get to your room. Seriously... stay away. I have never seen anything worse than this crackhouse hellhole.
I'd call it a Fleabag, but even fleas have standards.
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Sweet Jesus are we all talking about the same motel? Where do I start on how royally this place sucked? Well, how about I start with peeling paint, paper thin walls, gawd awful decor rejected from That 70's Show, the rancid stench of a million cigarettes, paint splatters on the bedspread, a parking lot so full of snow we were forced to park on the street, the bathroom sink counter falling down, the headboard busted loose from the wall and leaning precariously over the bed, no threshold between the carpet and the bathroom so the rug was frayed and the linoleum peeling back, knocked-over trash cans near the entrance, and on and on.
But wait, it gets worse. It seems a wing of the hotel has been converted to some kind of low income permanent housing with all the magic that comes along with that kind of thing; loud profanity, broken down cars in the parking lot, a window with dozens of booze bottles proudly displayed in it, etc. It was the type of scene to make one long for subtle beauty of public housing in Cleveland.
But that stuff is all Beverly Four Seasons compared to what happened when we came in from dinner. As I put the key in the door to our room my wife screamed and I jumped a foot off the ground. It seems there was a man lying face down under the stairs right across from our door. I called to him but he didn't respond and we couldn't tell if he was even breathing.
A note here on hotel security: There is none. No key is needed to get into the hallways and the door of our room had neither a dead bolt or a chain. It did however have a latch lock about the quality of one you'd find on a teenager girl's diary, which I was able to pop open in about a minute, TV private eye style, with a stiff credit card. The old aluminum windows were virtually impossible to lock and couldn't have kept out a drunken monkey which is, judging by looking at the things, exactly who installed them.
So back to our sleeping friend. A short time after getting into our room, while my wife and I were discussing whether or not to call the authorities, we heard a ruckus outside our door. The police, along with paramedics and firemen, were out in the hallway dealing with the matter. I don't know exactly what happened to the poor gentleman under the stairs but at least I can be sure that if he ended up in the local jail house he was enjoying accommodations slightly more glamourous than ours.
Indeed the price is cheap, $39, but unless you currently live in a frat house or routinely vacation in Sri Lanka or Sierra Leone then I'd say you'll be greatly disappointed here at the Norman Bates Snow Lodge.
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Cheap. Large rooms. I wouldn't stay in the winter since the outer doors between the hallways and the outside are a horrible seal so I'd assume it drafts badly.
But in summertime or shoulder it's hard to beat such a cheap price for a room that's almost Motel6 quality in such a high rent district.
I admit, this place is a little ghetto. Okay, maybe a lot (bring flip flops for the shower). I stayed there on a recent trip to North Lake Tahoe and I would stay there again. Why, you ask? Because it was only $39 a night, it is close to skiing and you can walk across the state line to the Nevada casinos.
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$30 a night?!?!?! WTF? Is it a tent? Has it been condemned? Does it have heat/water/bedbugs? So much doubt and incredulity was created when one of my friends booked this place on http://travelhero.com for the LOW, LOW price of $30 a night (especially when everything else nearby started at the $100 mark).
We were all pleasantly surprised when it just looked like a cheap college apartment - fixtures from the 50s, paper-thin walls, unfortunate wall paper, stained, but clean-seeming carpet. Not the best place I have stayed, but for the price, I have no complaints - the front desk was nice, we had plenty of clean towels and hot water, free coffee and even free WiFi. Slightly noisy neighbors (given the price, not surprising that it attracted the young, snowboard and party crowd). And I love the adjoining house that had been fully done up to look like a gingerbread house - adorable, tacky, and fun.
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My friend Andrew found this place for us to stay for the low price of $39 a night. Reading Tesia H. review we had similar experience. They've raised the price from $30 to $39 but it's still cheap!
It's $39 a night for a reason. We stayed in Room 139 and we had 2 queen beds for the 3 of us, originally it was gonna be 4 of us.
The front office has free coffee and we got some free sugarless gum.
The room is very noise because you can hear the people above us walking when I'm trying to sleep. You can also hear the water going next door too.
The tiny bathroom had 3 sets of towels for us. Face towels, hand towels and body towels. That was good. Cheap soap to use..2 tiny bar soaps and liquid soap in the shower, and no shampoo.
The neighboring gingerbread-looking house is theirs, my friend asked and they said the were too busy to take down the Xmas decorations.
It's not really in Kings Beach, it's in Brockway! If you pass Cal/Neva Casino you've gone too far. There are 4 casinos in the NV side that's walking distance for breakfast & dinner on the Cheap!
Still I'd recommend it for the cheap experience in North Lake Tahoe. Just bring earplugs! Some pics above.
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Definitely not $30/night during the peak of ski season, but definitely a bargain at $90/night. We booked through http://expedia.com. Everything in the surrounding area was MUCH MORE.
The lobby staff seemed very friendly and helpful. The room appeared clean and had a refrigerator. There were water stains on the ceiling over the bed, but I didn't feel a drop of water, so I'm hopeful that was just a remnant of a previous leak. Everything in the room (from the mini refrigerator, television, air conditioner/heater unit and decor) seemed quite dated, but was in good working order.
The only complaint: I would have liked a hairdryer in the room. There was none to be found. Oh...and the neighbors next to us (room 168) were partying into the wee hours of the night and woke me up on the second night and on the first night, they set their alarm for 12:30 AM...and it went off for an HOUR before it shut itself off...annoying.
I haven't stayed there yet but i have a reservation for this weekend... after reading some of these reviews i am tempted to sleep on the floor of my friends place or in my car. i will be sure to report back after my trip.
Definitely a bargain, and you get what you pay for. We got a room for $30 on a Friday night during ski season, and ended up staying Saturday night for $50 (though I wouldn't pay more than that). The room was huge and clean, though the furnishings were old and worn down. The beds were actually really comfortable and it stayed quiet and warm throughout the night. The lady at the front desk was very nice and helpful. This place is right by the North Shore casinos, though they are nothing compared to what South Shore has to offer. This place really needs to fix their pool/spa area. Now, obviously the pool isn't available for use in the winter, however I wouldn't use it in the summer either based on it's condition this past weekend - it's in dire need of a Hazmat crew! The water was black and luckily it was dark out so I couldn't tell what else was wrong with it. The spa was barely even 70 degrees and is located in what seems like a shed and it was really, really dark.
Overall, don't go there for a romantic weekend or expect anything luxurious (no hairdryer or basic toiletries other than soap in the bathroom). But for a ski weekend with friends it's a great value.
