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Reviews of Tahoe Inn

2 out of 5
Tahoe Inn
9937 N Lake Tahoe Blvd, Kings Beach, CA

Reviews

4.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 29 out of 566 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 69 out of 566 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 115 out of 566 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 168 out of 566 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 185 out of 566 reviews" "

4.8/10

Cleanliness

5.6/10

Staff & service

3.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Michele, Newport Beach, CA

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worst hotel I have ever stayed in.
This place was disgusting. The towel bar was ripped off the wall, there was a swastika painted in the bathroom, people lived in the room across from us, there was no carpet under the beds (to reduce bedbugs I assume), there were no screens on the windows, the staff was incredibly rude, I could go on and on. Do not, under ANY circumstances, stay here.

2/10 Terrible

Carlton, Medford

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worse hotel of my life!
Dirty and worn out, wife wanted me to get a refund and just sleep in the truck. Yep, that nasty. I pity all that dare to stay here. It shouldn't even be offered on Hotels.com, I can't believe that they have checked it out and gave it an A-OK.

4/10 Poor

simple, california

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wedding
The motel is going to be shut down. Closing. Going out of business

2/10 Terrible

Carlton, Medford

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
So bad, Hotels.com refused to post my review.
This visit was so awful, that Hotels.com refused to post my review. So now you decide, do you want to stay at a place that Hotels.com is keeping valid reviews away from?

2/10 Terrible

JC, IL

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Horrible
This hotel was closing down at the end of the month and it was obvious! We checked out after 1 hour (the time it took to find another hotel) The bed linens were stained/dirty the room was dated and thread bare. We had a superior room with a pool view, the pool had garbage and lumber floating in it. I cant believe this was even on Expedia. SCARY!

2/10 Terrible

Carlton, Medford

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dump, bar none.
As we entered the office, a growling slobbering dog with a ball in his mouth, came barreling towards my wife. She asked the senior woman behind the counter to restrain the dog, but the clerk refused and kept on stating "he just wants to play". That was our first turn off to this dirty place. We reluctantly checked in, the room was dirty, the carpet so dirty we had to wear our socks so our feet wouldn't get dirty. There was a plastic bag tied around the smoke detector and the window locks were loose. One word to describe this place, "worn out"! My wife wanted me to get our money back and just sleep in our SUV, but I just wanted to sleep. The chairs sunk down in the middle and the walls were dirty and full of holes. My wife and I wondered aloud, how did this place ever get on Hotels.com; it's very skanky. I will not stay at this place again, regardless of the circumstances. Don't stay here unless you are absolutely down and out, you'll regret it.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Just Say No, unless you are a fan of Deliverance.
Single paned windows, in Lake Tahoe? Cold and so much noise from the road that is 50-100 feet from the location. Invest in double paned windows! Have to leave the wall heater on all night as to not freeze. With the noise that the heater makes and the mini fridge, which sits on the dresser, ear plugs are required. People smoking in the hallways, smoking & non smoking rooms based on if you're a smoker or not, smoke is everywhere, this place needs to be in the back woods of middle America. I bet they would do much better there than a great place like Lake Tahoe.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
What you pay for
This Inn is not nice. It smells like smoke throughout and is not very clean. It is what you pay for though, a bed, nice staff, and a place to keep your stuff. I would recommend to those who do not mind the smell or the lack of amenities. Staff was fantastic and room was cheap.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location
Nice people at the front desk. Cute dog too. The place is older and just needs a facelift. Good location.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice Location, Scary Hotel.
The hotel was scary. I think the receptionist was high when I checked in. There was shattered glass from car break-ins on three of the ten or so inner parking spots. I was on floor one, half under ground room, and didn't feel safe. The carpets were disgusting and the sheets had hairs and little black particles all over them. The pillows were of similar dirtiness. It was nice and quiet. Lake Tahoe was very close by.

8/10 Good

Curtis, San Jose

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good value for the price
Not open for check-in after 11pm, which is not stated on the reservation. For this reason this hotel isn't the best place to stay if you are coming up to Tahoe after work on Friday because it is very likely you will not be able to get there before the office closes.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A roof and nothing more
The Mellow Fellow across the street is an awesome place to grab your selection of great beers and locally made brats. The hotel… Its a roof over your head and nothing more, not sure how it would be if heat was needed. Smells like heavy cigs in non-smoking rooms.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bed Bugs and Domestics Violence
There was a huge dog that greeted us when we walked in the lobby, so it is a very pet friendly hotel. However, once we got into the room, we had to choose between the bed filled with bugs, or the bed with broken springs. We heard arguing, a lot of cursing, and things being thrown In the room next to us. Scared that we were witnessing domestic violence, I almost called the police and my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to check out early. Luckily, other people passing by were able to get help before us. Seconds after the dispute, we received a crank phone call thinking it was probably the front desk checking in on us or apologizing and verified this after calling back the front desk. Being in an uncomfortable position, one would think the hotel staff would have come to check on us, or address the scary behavior, but no such action was taken. There wasn't any security here and my boyfriend thinks the crank call might've been people sweeping rooms to see who was/wasn't in their rooms. we r easy to please, but little efforts make such a big difference likeFinding a little hotel shampoo, but instead we felt almost like we had been camping. Sad to say, we will not be staying again. But we will be back to Tahoe/Kings Beach!

6/10 Okay

Samuel, San Francisco

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Fair price
Fair price. The room is old, but nice. There is no frigobar/fridge in the room.

10/10 Excellent

emma, san francisco

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice to stay clean and quit place
We have a good and wonderful stay at Tahoe Inn the place was clean and the staff are all awesome and near the beach

2/10 Terrible

Marcus, San Mateo

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Basic shelter
The hotel has obviously seen better days. The heat worked. The water worked. The furnishings and carpet need updating. You are paying for the location right on stateline. And a roof over your head.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stay away
was horrible- the dirtiest place I have ever been...the blanket was spotted all over and disgusting- I just wrote a long yelp review- others had that experience- look at the yelp review... but stay away- really really disgusting....

2/10 Terrible

Lori, Sacramento Ca

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel is a dump.
The hotel did not even have a way to lock the back sliding glass door . We had to pray nobody stole anything from the room while we were out since there was no way of locking our room up. Also the heater was so noisy and kept kicking on even when we turned it off. The walls were thin and we could hear the people next door fighting the whole night. I will never stay there again.

6/10 Okay

Lauren

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Great price, clean hotel
This is a great hotel if your looking for a place to rest while your out during the day. Nothing too fancy, but its clean and comfortable:)

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
These people dont know how to run a bussiness
Hotel was trashed. the lady in the office was more worried about her dogs than the customers. and there is no one in the office after regular business hours, and no number to call if you need anything.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
This is a great basic hotel. Its nothing fancy.
The staff are very nice and friendly. My daughter got to pet the dogs and loved that. One pizza delivery place that closed at 7p. Fairly close to Northstar ski village.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
beds are really uncomfortable, walls so thin that you could hear the people in the next room breath, and halways smelled of smoke and other unnamed odor.. needs major remodel.

4/10 Poor

ernesto, richmond

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
awful experience
Service was awful.. they tried to open our room without letting us know so our children got freaked out so did we.. we found garbage under the beds and WiFi was awful.. would not stay here again.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good choice for inexpensive lodging
We booked this motel in order to arrive a day early for our ultimate destination at the south end of Lake Tahoe. The pricing is right for a short-term stay. The proximity of the motel to local dining is good. The property itself is beginning to show some age but the rooms were clean.

2/10 Terrible

Bret, Coarsegold

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This place is gross
VERY run down hotel from the 50's that is very dirty and outdated. Many permanent residents. Needs new ownership to return it to it's glory days....

2/10 Terrible

Nate, San Francisco, CA

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worst night sleep ever
This place is so old and dilapidated that it could be used for another remake of Psycho. You could feel the buttons on the mattresses, and the building is so creaky that any movement makes an awful racket. Given this, the ability to sleep was almost nil. This is the worst motel I've ever stayed at.

2/10 Terrible

D. , Santa Rosa CA

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very upsetting, disappointing.
Check in three large dos in office, smelled. Room smell old musty damp. Bed spread was stained, cigarette burns in blanket holes in blanket. Showed doors black with mold inside & out. Towel rack on wall ripped off, NO coffee pot refrigerator or microwave in room. Rug stained not clean, heater did not work, call office took over two hours for someone to start heater change bedspread. WAS VERY COLD. Ceiling stained with water damaged, Cigarettes butts in hallway. By 7:00 PM room was almost warm, went to dinner with grandson back at room 8:30 room was nice and warm. 11:00 o'clock turned heater down for bed, around 4:00 AM was very cold in room, tryed to star heater not working again, saw the reset button pushed it came on, back to bed to get warm up at 6:30 AM heater was off again, got up and left. I said some thing to the guy down in the office about the problems, said he would have someone check it out. No one should have to pay for conditions like this.

4/10 Poor

francis, Daly city

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
dont ignore reviews just to save money.
The bed spreads are dirty with hair and stains. I have been to a lot of hotels but this is the worst. The reviews are right it is only good for sleeping but we were not able to sleep because we didn't use the dirty comforters. The heater is so old fashioned that we can not feel the heat. It is roomy but we need comfort specially if it's snowing outside.

2/10 Terrible

wenjing

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Property is a little old and tired, but extremely good value and great location,

4/10 Poor

Cyn, san francisco

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
You get what you paid for
The bed and bathroom are both clean and acceptable but the carpet was just disgusting. Stain everywhere. Then the wall is paper thin I can hear every single word uttered by my next room neighbors. They woke me up when they try to wake up their kids.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

8/10 Good

Andy, California

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Great hotel for the price!
It was s nice old hotel. Staff was friendly, room was clean and it even had a balcony. Nothing fancy, but it had a good price and everything you need to sleep.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
nay if it is your only option
Not very good for the money, a little dirty and the lady at the front desk was not very nice

6/10 Okay

t, san ramon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
as a hotel 2 star its a good hotel i like this hotel but i need more pillows

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good location and perfect for small budgets
I would recommend Tahoe Inn if you want to stay in North Lake Tahoe and are traveling on a small budget. It will probably be your cheapest option and a good option in terms of quality Vs. price. We got a room with 2 queen beds for $50 a night, around Christmas time. The beds were not great and the room was a little cold but the room was big and clean.

10/10 Excellent

a skiier, SF

Very cheap hotel
Very spacious room for a incredibly cheap price. If you don't like this hotel, you just have to pay some regular price around the area. Not the best hotel of course but what do you expect from the half price of all others?

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fine enough
Fine, dogs allowed

2/10 Terrible

norm

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Crappy hotel, meth heads everywhere.
Original room didn't get cleaned, moved us to a new room that was pretty gross, didn't have a balcony, and surrounded by loud people.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very friendly staff
I made mistake when I booked the hotel from Expedia, but the hotel fixed the problem. I appreciate their effort.

6/10 Okay

josh, CA

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Get what you pay for
Very old. Needs updating for sure, repairs as well. Could hear adjoining rooms even if people were just talking. On a tight budget it will do but it's not something I would pick again unless I absolutely had to.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Last minute Tahoe trip
Nothing fancy. Clean comfortable room for only $50

2/10 Terrible

Lougnusf, San Francisco

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worst Hotel In Tahoe
I think that this might possible be the worst place to stay in the North Tahoe Area. I knew that is wasn't going to be a great hotel but never expected it to be this bad. The room felt dirty even through it had just been cleaned, the towels smelled weird and everything had a dingy tint to it. I didn't even feel comfortable sleeping in the bed so I slept on top with my own blanket. Also there was no privacy in the room, there was a large sliding glass door that didn't lock properly nor did the blinds close all the way and there was always strange men walking by. But, the worst part by far was the fact that the wouldn't let my dog stay in the room unattended. I had an event to go to on the Saturday afternoon and called several times to confirm with the hotel that I could bring my dog and leave him in the room, each time they said no problem, but as soon as we arrived that was the first thing they mentioned. There were other hotels in the area that were dog friendly and would allow me to leave my dog unattended but in a crate. If I had known their dog policy in advance and they were clear about it this mix up wouldn't have not have happened. I would recommend any other hotel in the area other than this one.

2/10 Terrible

A, S

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Horrible hotel
There was a dead squirrel in the pool. Hotel room was disgusting with someones hair all over the bathroom and the beds. Obviously people were smoking in the hotel so it smelled terribly.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Ironman 70.3, San Jose, CA

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really old building, bathroom is moldy the shower doors doesn't slide open & close properly (water pressure is really good) the carpet in the hallway smells really bad. I had no choice but to stay in this inn because it is the only place that was available during the ironman event otherwise I would've book somewhere else

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Horrible, unsanitary, rude, gross
The room we stayed in looked like it hadnt been clean in years. Dust everywhere, stains dirty, unsanitary. They entered our room without permission. When we came back to the room from being out for the day, someone made our bed. But didnt clean..We called and said we didnt ask for service and they said that no one cleaned our room. They didnt do it once, but twice. They charged my credit card with out permission and couldnt get their facts straight when I asked them why. When i asked to see the paperwork they said it was sent to the "corporate office" because it was charged the other day. I told her no, it was charged today. Then she looked ad someone elses paperwork and said it was credited back to us and I asked how much. She gave me some different amount and told her that amount was incorrect. Then she found it after 5 min and was like oh here it is... Excuses, excuses, excuse! Worse stay ever.. Also, hotels.com was no help as well when I tried to get relocated...they hung up on me twice..

4/10 Poor

Nancy, WI

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Hotel rundown but room clean and manager very helpful.

2/10 Terrible

Maxie, Penn Valley, CA

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
customer caution
Local newspaper reported that this facility is scheduled for demolition. Reason - Bugs, stained linen, drug paraphernalia, etc. A creepy place that is begging for the wrecking ball.