We booked here because all the other hotels were full. It's a 1950's era motel and believe it or not they still have the original towels! They were so stained and thread bare I skipped my shower. The sheets were limp and grayish......OLD. Had to kill some small bugs in the bathroom. Neither the windows or the door closed very well. The rubber on the bottom of the door was hanging off. There were 2 double beds, a table and 2 chairs crammed in the room. The room had an old smell - I did check for bedbugs and the fact that I didn't find any was the only good thing about the room. Better off sleeping in the car! We paid $100 for a $20 room.

whilst on our roadtrip from the west coast to east coast of the usa we decided to stop at Carlsbad for the night time bat flight at the caverns and the caverns themselves, after hours of searching to try and find a average priced room anywhere near the caverns - all the other towns apart from Carlsbad are ghost towns, you would have to travel very far to go see the caverns. all the other motels / hotels were fully booked and insanely over priced !

we ended up going for the Carlsbad inn at a massive $80 dollars a night - or so we thought, it was actually $100 when we got there ( even with tax it doesn't come near $100, so god knows what he charged extra for ) !!!!!!

good points
* it is near the town centre with walmart close by and 20-30min drive away from caverns.
* it was clean
* parking was okay
* a/c worked fine
* there was a medium sized fridge
* seamed like a safe area
* wifi seamed okay

bad points
* NO BREAKFAST !!!!
* very basic rooms with old style t.vs
* receptionist wasn't very friendly
* expensive
* dated room

Note that if you are traveling to Carlsbad, they are in the middle of an oil boom. So if you arrive in town expecting to get a decent hotel room without an advance reservation, you can forget that. The rooms are sold out and that's the reason we ended up here. Aside from the roughnecks barbecuing on their tailgates (which might have been better than our meal),this place is the pits. Cigarette butts all over the stairs and parking lot along with Q-tips (why???). Get in the room and it's a dive. The TV remote doesn't work, the towels are threadbare, the window in the bathroom doesn't close letting the bugs in and the lamp didn't even have a cord to the wall to plug it in. This place sucked, so much so that when you checked out in the morning, the owner didn't even want to deal with you. You just dropped your key in a bucket on the desk. If its all you got, good luck.

Dated but clean room and everything worked as promised. Sparkling if a bit chilly pool and nice lawn space with playground and picnic area for kids. Great big ice machine with plenty of ice. I would have considered this place very good except that the $79 cost seemed high compared to comparable rooms in Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces, but I think other places in Carlsbad were equally expensive for the money. For what it is worth, the manager was nice to us.