Tahoe Inn

I… Butterfly Gangster was the LAST Gang Member/​Guest to Stay @ this Cozy and Quiet Inn. Brad is the Man… The Mezzanine Level of the Motel was Chaperoned by 2 Females with uzi’s chewing bubble gum & 2 Wild Popsicle Stick Chick New World Gangsters. This Place Was for True Gangster that Don’t Snitch like Females. (Singin Like Beyonce — Snitchin). Sad To see that it is being taken down for Squaw Valleys Housing Amusement Park. It’s to Bad they Had to write about people doing whip-​its NO2 (this happens at every hotel in Tahoe) in the parking lot of the Motel. Then Publish it in the Tahoe Tribune and make a shit show out of Brad’s Family Inn Business.
No one goes to Tahoe to Pray, The Mob has always been a Historic Landmark for these hotels.
Finger Poppin Since 94’
Butterfly Gangster (BGLP)

For this price, you can’t expect too much more, but they could care a little bit more of things that wouldn’t cost them money like cleaning etc. The lady at the front desk was really nice.
UPDATE: originally I gave 3 stars. Now I give 1 star. 2 days after we slept at this place both my friend and I got itchy red dots everywhere on our body. Our beds were infested by BED BUGS! Keep away from this place.

Oh my God! I have moteled it all over western us, but this place is almost inhabitable!
There is basically no management (didn’t feel safe with my family alongside) Place is disgusting and loud! SAVE YOURSELF A NIGHT OF NO SLEEP AND PAY ADDITIONAL $ 30 AND STAY SOMEWHERE ELSE! Too bad there isn’t a ¼ star!

I am very satisfied for the price paid. Good place for a ski weekend.
We got the deluxe room which was spacious and clean. The room had also air conditioned heating, and lots of hot water.
I did bring blankets from home to avoid using the local blankets

So the 80s just called me and asked me to write a review for their Inn. I gave it two stars because it has not been rennovated since the 80s BUT I don’t think this place cares because it will be torn down very soon. You should not care either because it is probably the cheapest place to stay at North Lake for a weekend of skiing.

Tahoe Inn is a good place if you want to stay in North Lake Tahoe and are traveling on a small budget.
I stayed there around Christmas time and it was the cheapest option I found online. We had a double queen bed room for $ 50 a night.
The room was a bit cold but it was spacious and clean.

If you are on a budget, won’t be spending too much time in your hotel room (who does that on vacation anyway?) and are only staying one or two nights, this place gets the job done!
I went here during Valentine’s Day weekend and chose this place because it was the cheapest for a room near Northstar. Check-​in on Saturday evening was easy and the front desk was friendly. My boyfriend and I were at Northstar from opening until 6PM (we didn’t check into our room until after snowboarding) so after check in, we showered, took a nap and went a few blocks down to one of the bars to eat dinner and watch the All-​Star basketball game. When we got back to the room around midnight, we fell asleep and though it was a bit cold, we were fine.
Maybe I’m just more prepared than most and during any kind of trip, I always bring my own toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, soap, an extra blanket and pillow. I don’t really see why the rest of these Unilocalers were so angry and dissatisfied with their stay. If you’re coming to Tahoe to board or ski and you are balling on a budget, sometimes you have to sacrifice that 5-​star hotel experience if you want to spend more money on your lift tickets or rentals.
If you don’t want to spend an extra $ 100 – 200 on a nicer hotel/​inn, it’s not Tahoe Inn’s fault. They simply provide a service and when the prices are this cheap, what do you expect? Thank you Tahoe Inn, for providing us with a place to stay after snowboarding and for being honest about the services you offer.

Let’s start with the good (there isn’t much). It was pretty quiet, there is a balcony and the wi-​fi was pretty fast.
Now onto the bad:
— stains on everything (and I mean EVERYTHING!)
— pock-​marked meth addict for a front desk receptionist
— no shampoo (that is right… they were TOO CHEAP to provide shampoo!!!). I will normally bring my own shampoo if I am planning on staying a while, but we were only there for one night, so I didn’t even bother. Of course, we don’t realize this until we decide to actually take a shower and end up needing to use their crappy soap to wash the lake out of our hair. We figured they just forgot it, but when my friend asked the cleaning lady the next day if she had any, she said no.
— TV gets like 4 channels and the picture was of poor quality… basically you couldn’t give this thing away at a thrift store
— the screen door going out to to the patio was constantly falling off its track
— the sliding glass door would NOT lock!!! Thats right… anyone could have broken into our hotel room at ANY point.
— there was broken TV sitting out in the hallway right outside our door the entire time
— the cleaning caddy for the housekeeping staff sat in the hallway the entire time just on the other side of our door.
— the hallways were dark, dimly lit and were just depressing and creepy. An asylum would be more welcoming than this place.
— the walls were dirty, the ceiling stained and the carpets threadbare… inside and outside the room.
— the carpet on steps looked like it hadn’t been vacuumed in 40 years
— there were giant burn holes in my blanket and it was completely stained throughout… I wouldn’t give this to a homeless person to sleep with!!!
It was just awful. I understand that it was a good deal for Lake Tahoe, but this place was worst than most hostels I have stayed at in third world countries… I am NOT exaggerating! Also last I checked, shampoo costs the same whether you are charging $ 30 a night or $ 110 a night, and I have never gone without shampoo at a crappy motel 6 before… just sayin’. There also is no excuse for the abject filth that was present throughout. It boils down to sheer laziness. Same reasoning goes for the housekeeping caddy and broken tv left out in the hallway.
If you absolutely CANNOT afford a better hotel, then take the risk, but if you can afford an extra $ 50, for the love of god, spend it!

Ignorance is bliss !
My friend told me he booked a cheap room and told me not to check Unilocal.
Guess what? I did lol because I was curious. First thing I thought was WTF …
I couldn’t believe the photos and the reviews. I thought to myself and said naaah… Can’t be that bad .
LET ME TELL YOU. IT IS.
Omg. Never in my life was I scared to touch anything .
I walked in through the halls to find my room. okay. Horrible creepy lighting .
Dust falling from the stairs that seemed like no one has ever vacuumed.
Open the door to the room. Okay the bathroom isn’t bad. I guess they fixed the leakage .
Hole in the bathroom door. Okays…
Holes in the wall. Okays…
Bed dips in the middle and is hella bouncy. Okay …
Stains all over the carpet. wtf ?
Stains on the bed sheet. WTF ?
Blood stains on the bed. WTF ?
I’m contemplating if there was a murder or period accident going on here.
Either way. I’m always going to check Unilocal so I don’t put myself in this situation ever again lol

Review
I do not recommend this hotel. Not even a little bit.
My boyfriend made the reservation 5 months ago when he registered for Tough Mudder because the weekend stay, including tax, was $ 145.
I am now in charge of all vacation plans.
Pros:
Clean running water. A saving grace after Tough Mudder.
Pool. Made my 6yr old son very happy.
Front desk supplied many extra towels upon request.
Hair dryer upon request.
No bed bugs.
Cons:
OLD – not in any «quaint» kind of way. In a, «This place was abandoned for 20yrs then the squatters decided to make an extra dime off some serious suckers» kind of way.
Filthy. FILTHY.
Lingering/​constant smell of cigarette smoke.
Peeling wallpaper.
Duct tape keeping the stairwell railing together.
Duct tape keeping the hall carpet together.
Hall had piles of dust where the vacuum must not be able to reach.
Cigarette butts left on our balcony.
No AC.
Peeling ceiling plaster.
Bathroom shower moldy/​rusty.
Mystery soap in hand soap dispenser in shower.
Stained chairs/​linens/​pillows.
Nightstand about to fall off of the wall.
Rooms weren’t vacuumed (3 friends stayed as well, all had similar experiences).
Mattresses hard as rocks.
No fitted sheets – just overlapped top sheets – which felt like polyester – tucked under the mattress.
If you don’t heed these warnings to spend your hard earned money in more productive ways, please bring shower shoes, your own pillows, your own soap, and pull the comforters off the beds immediately and lay them upside-​down on the floor as an extra barrier from the carpet.

My first impression of the hotel from the outside: made me think it was a hostile. The inside was just as bad as the outside. When I came into the hotel, there was staircases everywhere. There hotel is not leveled. The hotel room had a funky smell to it. The rooms are really out dated. The bed sheet has black stains on it. I wouldn’t stay here again, the only reason we stayed here was because the other hotels were booked.

I know better. In a hurry, I clicked on this because it was the least expensive hotel, and did not bother to check the reviews. Had I done so, I would have avoided this place like an Ebola-​infested morgue. I’ve stayed in some pretty awful places (i.e. cheap hotels in Thailand), and I could not bring myself to stay the night. Yes, that’s right — we left without actually sleeping there and dealt with driving home at 11 pm.
Anytime you walk into a hotel lobby where the stench of cigarettes makes your eyes water, it’s time to walk right back out. Ironically signs prohibiting smoking plaster the walls but clearly the workers there do not care. «Uh-​oh», whispers a tiny inside voice.
People complain about the outdated furnishings and décor — honestly, I don’t care about that at this price point. I do want a clean hotel. This place is a dump, and I apologize to dumps across the land for insulting them so. Matted with stains, the carpet lining the concrete stairs and hallway leaves you glad that you have shoes on — and gives further life to that little tickle in your mind saying perhaps you’ve made a terrible mistake. The ever present tobacco aroma combines with sweat and pot to cement that idea. A long walk down the dark, dingy hall to your room sets the stage for your entrance into the room where you hope to escape some of the smell. That little tickle grows into a full on head noogie accompanied by the word «dumba$$».
Enter the room to find the same carpet, the same stains on the wall, and of course, the smell of cigarettes. You realize it was an act of the most ignorant optimism to hope that the cigarette smoke would respect the barrier of the door, or that the cleaning staff would refrain from smoking in the room. The beds, sagging towards the headboards, made up with their floral patterened top covers, await you. Do you dare?
Alarm bells in your head sound, warning you that a blacklight inspection of the covers would be both a smart and foolish idea at the same time. Smart in that you’d know where the stains were, foolish in that you’d simply add volume and justification to the ongoing chant of «stupid, stupid, stupid» that started as a whisper in the lobby and now rivals some high quality subwoofers in its intrusive drumbeat. Furthermore, you’d probably regret having sat down anywhere in the room.
A glance out the window lets you know that some of the «guests» would be better termed «residents», or «renters». Shortly after that astute observation, awareness dawns that paid companionship would simply require opening the window and uttering such magic phrases «I’m looking to party!», or «I need a date!», or «I have drugs inside the room!». Should fistfighting interest you more, I’m sure you could drum that up easily enough with a different selection of phrases.
Having taken in all of this, you wonder how on earth you took Highway 28 and ended up in Compton, or the Tenderloin. Did you drive through a wormhole? Are you being Punk’d? Are you really a competent adult who actually made the decision to stay here? No, no, and as the Magic 8 ball says, «very doubtful».
If you wish to:
1. Get the full depressing flavor of Social Distortion’s hit «Ball and Chain»
2. See what «squalor» actually means
3. Have any hope of romance smashed into a billion pieces of disappointment and regret followed by the phrase «what kind of woman do you take me for?» spat venomously at you
4. Give your wife or partner a crown jewel in the «remembered mistakes» display case (i.e. «Remember that time you so thoroughly disrespected me?», or «What I did may be bad but not as bad as the time you took me to Tahoe Inn!»
5. Mar any sort of memories of the beauty of the Lake Tahoe area in the same manner as taking 80 grit sandpaper to the hood of your car,
then you’ve found your place. I’d recommend taking along a highly effective ganglion blocker, such as not one but two bottles of bathtub gin or a .357 Magnum.
For minimal amounts more there are vastly better places nearby. If you simply have to stay there, I recommend sleeping in your car as your head probably won’t be itchy afterwords.
You have been warned.

Oh, where to begin? Upon which adjectiveal, noun-​verb combination might I call to give you, gentle reader, the full flavor of this establishment? Dump, hazmat repository, squalid roadside motel more suited to the pay-​by-​the-​hour lodging industry? From the parking lot sinkholes to the 6 foot weeds growing in the drained-​years-​ago pool, to the exposed plywood decking clearly weathered and splintered from up to a decade of neglect, the exterior was telling enough to warrant inspecting the room prior to carrying our bags up the ought-​to-​be condemned stairs to the second deck room. Good call.
Now for the quarters. Yum. What is that smell? The acrid odor of disinfect battling that stubborn aroma one finds at the Nob Hill Theater after a particularly lucrative weekend (double feature). Booked for two adults and a 13 year old, the room boasted what appeared to be a third-​generation hand-​me-​down full size bed boasting a generous 3 feet of extraneous space to either side! Generally we could forgive the oversight and move to a larger room with two beds, but I’m doubtrul the structure would support the added weight. A quick look at the duct tape provisioning sketchy electrical work confirmed this was not a recoverable property.
We returned the keys and began a somewhat challenging refund process. The woman at the counter pretended she just worked there, then told another guest her husband the owner would be up shortly to examine an alarming sound emanating from his room. She refused me a checkout receipt but had me write my reasons for leaving early so she could pass that along to Expedia: Room not as advertised; missing pool; dilapidated structure; dangerous electrical work; lack of maintenance. Wouldyou like another room with us? Um. No. Thank you.
After 56 min in the line with Expedia’s Bangalore call center and profuse thanks for my patience I was informed that three unsuccessful calls to rhe hotel resulted in no headway with he property owner, who pretended she was just the clerk and could not divulge the owner/manager’s contact info without «authorization. «Therefore, I will receive a «one-​time only» courtesy refund. Well, thatis mighty white of you, Expedia, but no. If this happens again at one of your «3 star properties» i will wait another 56 minutes for a refuns, at which time you may again thank me for my patience.
Sleep in the park or at the lake before you book here. You’re less likely to catch something.

For the money, this hotel was decent.
I am a broke college student and I went with my boyfriend for the 4^th of July weekend. The front desk staff was pleasant and helpful. Yes, the place allows pets but from our very crowded weekend it was never a problem. The place did not reek of piss or smoke.
Yes, I will admit there were some water stains on the ceiling. And yes, we killed a beetle and a spider.
That being said, we had a wonderful balcony and were in and out of the room a lot. I can’t blame the place for the bugs.
Along with the balcony, the room was huge. I never felt cramped or crowded. The water pressure was fine, and it was hot. Even too hot, finding the middle ground took a minute but it was also doable.
All of the negative reviews have their merits, but I feel they are exagerating a bit. I would absolutely stay here again.

Lynn (front desk) was wonderful. You can smell the animals from the hallway but it’s a place to have pets overnight with you. We got a great price for the family room with attached room (Dad’s room). The room is what we expected for the price. The bathroom was fair, the microwave was new and it had a mini fridge. Very few TV channels but we were there for a wedding. Nice location next to state line.
Firm king sized bed (we always use our own sheets/​blankets). So overall it was decent

So very crappy, and not even that cheap…
Front desk reeks of smoke.
Rooms are large, heated by only a tiny heater built into the wall. Really a bathroom-​sized heater for a 12’x25’ room. It broke. Were told how to fix it by the front desk.
Disgusting motel-​cover, blanket and sheet were barely ½ inch thick all-​together. Were refused any extra blankets (because the heater wasn’t cutting it, snowing outside).
When asked where to find the (advertised) hottub, front desk help looked at my husband like he ran over her dog on purpose and then asked for a towel to wipe down his car. We decided to pass on the hottub after that anyway, having become so frightened by the places lack of standards.
The shower was so gross I put a towel down on the shower floor before getting in.
For just $ 30 more we found a place down the road right on the lake with working heat that was clean and neat and uses REAL COVERS (none of that never-​washed-​floral-​spread nastiness). and included a kitchenette. Plus a big hottub (and a pool for summer visitors).

I’m afraid to shower because the bathroom is so disgusting. The hallways stink of old cigarettes. The sheets are made of low quality felt and is peeling apart. This place does not seem to meet any standards of general hygiene and probably should be closed down.
I thought $ 80/​night after taxes was cheap, but save yourself and do not come here ever even if you’re looking for a place to sleep after a day of boarding! You’re better off sleeping in the car.

This place sucks.
No shampoo
No spa
Ants in the bathroom
Cigarette smoke everywhere
No 3 prong outlets in rooms
Stained carpets
Mold between tiles in bathroom
Mysterious spots on floor in bathroom
No fridge or microwave
Sagging beds
Nuff said.
Stay here only if last resort and you are desperate.

I found this place through a travel website & the cost was by far the lowest for New Years week. So some will say that you get what you pay for but there is a certain level of safety one comes to expect when you pay any amount of money to lay down your bags & sleep. Me & my girlfriend came in late from the east coast & because we were prepaid I called an attendant to grab us keys but as we were waiting a few people scampered in & out like we were cops. That did not give me the best feeling but we were tired & just wanted to get some rest. So we got into our room & it was a good sized & there was a queen bed as we asked. But when we looked closer I saw stains on the sheets & pillows, plus the bathroom floor had some mystery colors that I could not identify. The shower had a very small sweet spot where it was not arctic cold or scolding hot. The carpet was dirty, there was lack of clock & the patio door was not secure, especially important when you are in a 1^st floor room.
As the sun rose the place that stressed me out that night began to look a bit brighter. I needed to iron my shirt so I had to go grab the equipment in the office & encounter the staff in the daylight. They staff was quite nice & they seemed like a family that has been running the place forever trying to do there best. I must admit that the website definitely shows images of this place in better days. The location is quite prime, steps away from the Nevada border which means there is a casino right there. Plus the view from the property are breathtaking of the lake? I am one who likes to get up early & explore where I am, so as long as the bed & shower work I am fine. The Tahoe Inn provides that but they do need to just fix some of the basics. You get what you pay for I guess.

This place is a dump. If pricing is your deal and you don’t mind stained bed sheets, crusty showers, dirty laundry in the hall, broken window screens, and locals wandering the hallways, then this is the place for you. If you enjoy the simpler things in life, like peace of mind, you are better off sleeping in a tent next to a beehive. Not sure how a place like this stays in business.
Oh yeah, and there is a smell… not sure what it is… but it’s there.