Mother Nature's Inn

I can’t say enough about the staff. From the unseen individuals who responded to all my emails, to the cleaning staff onsite who were eager to help with my room confusion, the people make this place feel cozy and welcoming.

Before I even arrived, the staff were extremely helpful and attentive to all my questions and needs.

conveniently located across from Commons Beach, but between a laundromat that smells overwhelmingly like powdered detergent and a smokey BBQ joint, it's not a good location

The AC did not work. You have to walk down a long hallway of window box AC units struggling to work, and a wall of glass windows on the other side. It was significantly warmer inside than outside. There are no windows that open to the outside. The room smelled musty. The duvet had yellow stains on it and the sheets had multiple different colors of hair on it, plus two fingernail clippings. There was hair around the shower door and on the walls of the shower.

Totally cute, nothing fancy, clean sheets, comfy bed, great location. The hallway set up of having an indoor corridor to access your room, that faces the setting sun is probably the only reason I took one star off. We arrived on an 80° day when the sun was shining in the hallway windows and making it about 100° in there with small AC units running in every room window, pumping all the hot air into the same hallway, it made it unbearably hot in there and they all run nonstop because of how hot the corridor is, with very little airflow, that makes the rooms uncomfortably hot even with the AC running nonstop. But there’s a lot of hotels in Tahoe that don’t even have air-conditioning, so at least they do, along with a table fan and ceiling fan. They definitely try to mitigate the heat, but the room was still uncomfortably hot from about 5pm to sunset. And then as soon as things started to cool down about half an hour after sunset, the power went out, which was no fault to this Inn. It was out throughout the entire area, but that meant there was zero air movement in the hallway and room, so we end up spending the later part of the evening out on the beach, which is walking distance so that was nice. All in all, we’d go back for a quick trip when it’s cooler out- the location was perfect!

The location is excellent and the self check-in was very easy. Parking was great - right outside the motel. The room had plenty of amenities: desk for working, microwave, mini-fridge, nice chairs for sitting on the balcony.

I feel like the photo on the website probably reflects a more updated room than what I stayed in. It wasn't cleaned to the greatest level of detail (dust on the blinds and a museli bar wrapper was under a chair). There was also a sign pointing to reception, but I don't actually think there is a reception area? But it was safe, convenient, and comfortable, so a decent a stay overall if you're good with a place with a bit of character!

The bed was very comfortable and the room was very clean.

Did not like the packets of coffee. There was no Kleenex in the room and therefore had to use TP.