We stayed at the Los Abrigados Lodge for a wedding that took place at the Resort and Spa over Labor Day weekend. It cost us $189 for two nights because we agreed to listen to the timeshare spiel. The hotel was fine for our purposes. We got upgraded to a room with a balcony view for no reason, which was nice. Along with the deal we got $100 resort bucks that we could use for meals at the resort restaurants (which we did) or for particular gift shops. The food at the resort was ok, but our standards were not very high since the food was free. The timeshare spiel did go over the hour and a half that it was supposed to, which was kind of annoying because we had a flight to catch - however, it wasn't much of a pain, and was interesting to see what was available. We didn't want the hassle of trading or not trading our timeshare weeks and the $500/year maintenance fee seemed like it would offset any financial benefit. Overall, it was ok, but just ok.

Los Abrigados Lodges are tucked back off the highway so the rooms are very quiet and have a lovely view of the red rocks behind. Our room was absolutely enormous, even by American standards. There was a lounge area with settee and armchair, the bedroom area had 2 queen beds and there was a well equipped kitchen area (but no utensils) and bathroom. It was spoilt by small details like the telephone message button continually flashing but no message and no-one knew how to turn it off. There was a mini invasion of ants in the kitchen and the housekeeper had no spray or powder, and there was a smell of drains in the bathroom. Despite the very large rooms, we would think there were probably better places to stay in Sedona.

This place is Okay if it is free or close to free. It is very old and looks very much like a motel 6. It was somewhat hard to find because it is actually behind the stores on highway 89A. The furniture is old and the pull out sofa bed is death to anyone over 10 years old. The catch is that you get to go view their beautiful resort down the street but they lodge you in this old trap of a motel. Kind of like asking someone to buy a brand new Lexus after test driving a Pinto. The pool is an absolute joke. DO NOT stay here if relaxing and playing at the pool is important to you. It is old and very small. It looks like a skinny rectangle from the 60's. It is probably about 30 feet long by about 8 feet wide. The ONLY good thing about staying here is that it does have a good location. It is in uptown Sedona and you can walk to all the shops and restaurants. Notice though that on any of Los Abrigodas' Lodge websites, they show very little pictures of the actual "resort". That is because it is spooky and old and ugly. The picture of the fancy entrance way is actually their premiere resort that you will tour. The picture of the reception desk is accurate and is the only pretty thing around. The rest of it really truly honestly is set up just like an old Motel 6.

When arriving at Los Abrigados Lodge, we were shown a small room and told the price would be $99.00 a night ($198 as we needed 2 rooms). Then we were shown a suite with a small kitchenette and a sofa bed. This suite had a beautiful view from the sliding glass doors. We were told we could have the suite for $39.00 a night if we agreed to a 90 minute tour of their time share property. Since there were 3 of us, we decided to do this and save ourselves $160.00 a night. We also told them upfront that we were not going to buy and were just taking the tour to save ourselves some money.

We answered the questions about our financial qualifications honestly and were told we qualified to do the tour. So we did the tour, refused to buy, and received a certificate from the salesman stating that we were eligible for the discount. When we checked out we paid the discounted fee of $39 for 2 nights.

However, three weeks later our credit card was charged an additional $294. Los Abrigados would not answer any of our correspondence so we disputed this charge with our credit card company. Los Abrigados sent the credit card company a copy of the 'Marketing Follow Up Report' on which the tour salesman asked my husband to write why we were refusing to buy. My husband was planning to put 'not interested' and the salesman asked him to write down his annual income. This income did not meet the specified amount for taking the tour, however, what originally qualified us was our annual 'household' income, NOT just my husband's annual income, and the amount we had in investments. So they qualified us to do the tour, and then tricked us into putting something down that made it look like we had not met their guidelines so they could charge us an outrageous amount of money for an average suite. And yes, I realize it was stupid to put what the salesman said; however, we were all tired from jet lag and not thinking quite straight. We just wanted to go the tour over with and get some rest.

We are again disputing this with our credit card company; however, what a headache!!