Lodge at Santa Fe

This hotel isnt bad for the price. The location is very close to down town and they have a free shuttle. I got this room with a king bed for about 50/​night. I’ve stayed in better and I’ve stayed in worse. What was strange with this hotel is that I was able to check in early and went to my room to shower. While showering I heard someone enter the room and it was staff showing the room to someone interested in getting married on the premise. I heard them walk in and the staffer said «oh someone is already in the room, but this is what it looks like.» The guest said «are they in here?» And they proceeded to knock on the bathroom door. They then left. Who does that? If you enter a room you think is vacant and you see it’s not-​I would assume any sane person would turn around and leave. Especially if you hear the shower going. Who lingers? I made sure all my belongings were there and they were but still an awkward situation.

I stayed at the Lodge at Santa Fe with my friends on our way to Austin, TX from the Grand Canyon. The vibes were great– awesome New Mexican décor. Very authentic. We didn’t go to the restaurant upstairs because we heard that it really sucked. Towel size was the best we’ve seen yet, but water pressure was a bit high and aggressive. During showers, water continued to come out of the bath spout and not the shower head which my environmental friend was very upset about because it’s wasteful. My environmental friend also liked the cucumber water, but the majority of the car as well as normal people would probably just prefer normal water. They also didn’t have coffee this morning, which was a big upset as driving at 5am without coffee is pretty dangerous.

DEAD MOUSE: RAT under our bed! Super gross… the manager was apologetic and helpful, but there is no coming back from a dead RAT! We received a full refund. The restaurant in the hotel is TRASH… bad service, expensive food and not very good.

I was excited about this hotel. We stayed in the winter and had a room with a view of the pool and the mountains behind that. The décor was cool, all Native American theme. The shower was a nice, deep tub and plenty of counter space. It was winter when we went so not many people, I didn’t hear a sound all night. It was a fun room that my wife and I enjoyed. The only cons are the beds are stiff and I do not like stiff beds, ad the TV is an old box TV.

This is simply the loudest place I have ever stayed. On top of the extremely loud and disrespectful guests on our floor, you can hear every toilet flush, sink and shower, tv show, and conversation. Our first night was ok, nothing amazing but not bad, but after no sleep the second night, we had to leave.
Our room didn’t get cleaned. The shower was awful — long hairs on the wall and in drain when we got there, mold on curtain, and the cold water knob fell off the wall! Thankfully the staff was pleasant, listened to our grievances, and did not charge us for leaving early.
When coming to Santa Fe I don’t require much as my family lives here and I just need a place to lay my head for a night or two, but i will never ever stay at the Lodge again, nor refer. I type this from a beautiful Casita at the Santa Fe Motel & Inn, where the room is a bit pricier but with every penny for the private entry, cozy robe, warm fireplace, and delicious breakfast!

So I wrote this scathing review after we checked in, about what a dump this place is. My wife (the cooler-​headed one) said «Hey why don’t you wait until after our stay and see what you think then? Go ahead and write it, but don’t post it» That seemed stupid, but I was hoping for some good hotel s*x, so I agreed. The thing was, although this hotel is obviously in decline, it’s not as bad as some of the reviewers have made it out to be. You know who I’m really mad at? Priceline! For giving us this hotel as a 3 star hotel. It’s clearly not! But we didn’t have any bedbugs, nobody screwed us on the bill, and the check in staff were pleasant and helpful. Yes they have square tube televisions! (tube televisions! in this day and age) but they had HBO. Yes the mattresses are awful, but I’m 57, and I didn’t get a sore back! Yes the rooms are horribly outdated, but the wifi worked really well! Coffee maker, and no fridge. Some of the furniture was broken. Yes it’s not great, but if you think of it as a 2 star hotel at best, and pay accordingly, you will be much happier. But Priceline? Priceline you totally screwed me over on this one!

This place is in serious need of an update. The beds are terrible; both of us had backaches by the end of our stay. And on checking out, the woman ahead of us said «These have got to be the worst mattresses in the world!». (The desk clerk said she had never heard that before; I highly doubt that!) It is impossible to sleep through the night because people’s doors slam with jaw jarring regularity at all hours. It seems impossible to silently close a door so that you are startled awake constantly.
We specified a hotel on expedia with a fitness room and pool. Well, the pool was closed. The «fitness» room consisted of one old stair stepper and a cable machine. UGH?! Really? The halls smelled of something gone bad. The distance from the plaza may be listed as a short mile and some, but since the hotel is located across two major highways, there is no way to stroll into town. And the lack of lights on the turns at night make is downright dangerous to get across.
We went into the bar one evening for a night cap. Half of the bar was literally emptied out… and entire length of the room with no tables, chairs, etc. It looked like someone had abandoned the place and left a few chairs remaining at the bar. The wine is Barefoot, so forget about getting anything drinkable unless you’re after hard liquor.
One morning we noticed the maid had not put coffee in our room so we called the front desk. That’s when we discovered there is no room service. You have to get into your clothes and walk to the lobby to get a cup of coffee from an urn with three little cream containers floating in a bowl of water (to keep them cool I suppose). Our window blinds were broken and we had to ask for repairs twice because we couldn’t get them to pull all the way down. All in all, save your sanity and opt for a different lodging.

Very basic hotel — a little smelly, a bit dated. We arrived at 10:30pm on a Sunday night, and the people in the next room over had their door propped open and were very loud. Not a good experience for us, and we just needed a place to sleep.

This review is for the Flamenco Dance Company Entreflamenco, but I believe it is noteworthy to add it to the reviews for the Lodge at Santa Fe since the Lodge has been hosting (in partnership with the Lensic) this magnificent dance company for years.
Entreflamenco is a marvelous dance company. Antonio Granjero founded Entreflamenco in 1998. They originally started out in Spain as a traveling dance company — like many Flamenco Gypsy troupes did many, many years ago. With time, they became one of the most recognized, talented and award winning dance companies of all time. Shortly they started to perform in the USA in San Antonio, Houston, and Santa Fe, subsequently winning numerous awards.
It only made sense that they would land a premium performance spot in Santa Fe, where understandably Flamenco is respected and enjoyed by both the locals and international visitors.
Most of the dance members are locals, who started dancing at the age of four, but have performed internationally and the better dancers are *always* the older dancers, as Flamenco requires decades of dancing before one becomes good. Note, I said «good.» Every season, they bring a guest performer to join them — these performers are almost always from Spain with decades of dancing behind them and numerous prestigious awards.
The best dancer, in my opinion, is Estefania Ramirez. She started dancing at four. And her awards are too numerous to mention here, but let’s just say she has plenty. She has performed as principal dancer for many prestigious dance schools, academies, and festivals. She will rock your world. Her footwork is unparalleled, her arm movements — both graceful and strong. The discipline and years — and passion — to achieve this level of Flamenco perfection must be at the pinnacle of Flamenco performers over the lifetime of this beautiful, timeless dance.
What would Flamenco be without the musicians? It simply would not be Flamenco. The musicians are classical Spanish guitarists from all over the world — also with many awards. Both the singers and guitarists also start performing when they are 5, 6 and 7 years old. The passion in the singing voice of one of these singers will leave your heart exploding. You do not need to know Spanish to feel the language of both love and passion these singers vocalize.
If staying at the Lodge, please do treat yourself to one of these amazing performances. If just visiting Santa Fe or Albuquerque, make it a point to attend a performance after a day of sightseeing and wonderful New Mexican cuisine (forgive the bias here) dinner. There are many places in Santa Fe to enjoy Flamenco, but the ambience of the Lodge stage gets you so close to the dancers, you can feel their passion, their discipline and their love for the dance. The costumes are pieces of art by themselves — that the dancers seem to make come to life. Flamenco dance is for lovers, it is for passionate people who have an appreciation for life, and sensuality: it is for you, if you take a chance.

We stayed 5 nights in August, 2015. I had made the reservation months before and requested a room with a view of the mountains on the top floor. I was assured 3 times that they would make every effort to honor my request. When we arrived at their check-​in time, there was no such room available. They were apologetic, but we ended up with a room facing the pool on the second floor.
When we got to our room, the door was OPEN about an inch! This worried us. When I went to open the roman shade on the window, one side went up about a foot higher than the other, so the shade was totally cockeyed. Looking out at the other windows, we noticed that many others were like that as well. This was kind of a clue as to the upkeep of the hotel.
It was hot in the room, so we turned on the air conditioner, which refused to turn on the «cool» feature. We called the office and we waited while they sent someone up to repair it. It was fixed and worked ok (though noisily) after that.
The second morning, we woke up to find the bathroom counter flooded (along with things we had on the counter). We figured out the faucet was leaking at the connection. It didn’t leak all the time, so we just put a towel on the side of the faucet to collect the water.
Maid service was spotty… water left sitting in ice bucket, failed to leave shampoo, room not vacuumed the whole time we were there (and looked like the edges hadn’t been vacuumed in months), wet towels left on the counter, etc. One day we returned to take a nap at 4:30 and the room hadn’t been cleaned yet. We had to ask a maid in the hallway to clean it before we could rest, which was very annoying, as we were tired.
The hot tub was very foul smelling and there was a broken light nearby so it was very dark. The fixture was hanging by the open wires, which seemed very unsafe to have in a pool area. We reported this. The next day the light was working, but there was so much chlorine in the tub, it was burning everyone’s eyes. The jets also didn’t work. We didn’t use the hot tub again and didn’t see any other people using it either.
We went to the bar in the restaurant one day during what is advertised as happy hour, but the waitress said they don’t have happy hour on weekends. It doesn’t say that on the website… just implies that there is happy hour every day. We ate at Gardunos restaurant one day and the food was ok, service poor and we were the only ones in the restaurant at 5:30 pm.
I will say that I’m sure this was once a great place to stay, but just hasn’t been maintained and has poor supervision. It has a lovely view (if your room has one), it’s a nice building and grounds and the rooms are nicely decorated. I guess the reasonable price balances the problems somewhat. It’s just too bad Heritage Hotels doesn’t seem to care much about this property. We did stay in another Heritage Hotel in Albuquerque which was much more well-​kept.

Do not in stay in room #142. Access is funky, the one window faces the pool where the hot tub was «Down for cleaning» and people where sitting around drinking beers and smoking cigarettes. No Smoking hotel Huh… Then the gate to the pool area banged all day and night with a loud metal CLANG as people slammed its latch in place behind them. This gate shared a wall with our room #142 and was very loud, unpredictable and jarringly constant. CLANG. Very dark room with the only light coming from a window that exposes all your privates to the partiers in the pool area. Ill be sure to come back At Halloween so as to have the shitake scared out of me and my sweetheart again. Oh the old tube TV was a nice touch as it had a particular subsonic whine to it much like my post here. There were no batteries in the remote and had to call several times before someone brought batteries at 8pm.

Baddddddd Service, Crazy Satff.
Buddy Of Mine Has His wedding Respetion Over There and we Had an Awful Experience
If I start Wont Stop…

Dreadful. Ancient beds, ratty pillows, filthy hall carpets, saturated room carpet (God, we hoped it was rainwater), a green hot tub in the pool area, no coffemaker in the room, bar charges that weren’t ours that took 15 minutes to deal with at 6:30 in the morning and it all adds up to a big disappointment. We were in town for a funeral and travel to Santa Fe often. Never again to The Lodge. At an average of $ 125 a night, this should be MUCH better. Avoid.

Do not stay here. Period. If you are looking for a cheap hotel, even a motel 6 is better… At least you’d expect what you get. This place is a disaster. You’ll pay what you could on a much nicer hotel, and get a room that would actually even make a Motel 6 look nice.
This place hasn’t been updated in decades. Literally. The rooms look nice upon first glance, but everything about them is dirty and old and broken. Even their best rooms, the Kiva Suite, had bugs crawling in the bed and blood stains on the sheets. The bed itself was what you’d expect at your 95 year old grandmas who hasn’t bought a new mattress since 1950. There are burn holes, paint splotches and grime on the carpets in most rooms… Old boxy, blurry TVs (seriously? They don’t even make those anymore…), paper thin walls, broken showers and toilets in 4 of the rooms we saw (we asked to move rooms the first night we were supposed to stay — they showed us some other rooms… and then we fled for our lives and sanity), awful «security», and a «heated» pool & jacuzzi that are both cloudy and disgusting.
Apart from the incredible manager who refunded our money for the whole stay that we had prepaid (which by the way we didn’t stay and instead went to a relatives– had to knock on their door at 12:30am, tail between our legs after returning from a lovely night in Santa Fe) who was so apologetic and understanding, as we obviously weren’t the first people to complain, the staff is really hit or miss. There were a couple people at the front desk who were kind and understanding and trying to be helpful; one guy generously upgraded us to the nicest room they have for our second night even though we were leaving the first night, so we decided to give it another shot, but even that room, The Kiva Suite, was unbearable.
We tried to tell the person at the front desk about our situation, the bed bugs and stained sheets being the main problem, but there was no one there! We shouted for someone, we even called from our room, but no answer. I finally wrote a note and we packed up our stuff and left and as we drove by the front to put the note on the desk an older lady was there who, after we told her our complaints, informed us it was «bug season, so what do we expect?» Truly unacceptable. Especially for a place that is known to have had BED BUGS.
I used to stay at this property all the time as a kid and it was so lovely. The view is perfect, the property looks so nice from the outside, even the pictures of the rooms make this place look like a steal. DONT LET THAT FOOL YOU! This place has gone downhill FAST. We found rooms at La Posada in the Plaza for a fraction more than this place and trust me, you would want to pay that fraction more to not have to go through what we went through here. I can’t emphasize enough to you to not stay here. Like for real. Just don’t. Unless you’re into bug season heaven while you sleep on your dirty sheets. Grosssss

The beds here need to be updated (badly) as do the TVs. The stay was fine enough, they were accommodating to our pups
which was nice. They have a puppy station by the parking lot stocked with doggy bags… And a small courtyard with areas to walk. That was nice too.
Wifi was tough I couldn’t get service and wifi wasn’t really accessible from our room. Our sheets on the first night were stained (blood stained– looked like an old stain… Still… ah!) and the bathroom was dark (they hadn’t changed two of the bulbs) one great thing about this place was the front desk guy… He was very nice and took the time to tell us about where to go and what to eat. Over and above!
There’s also a shuttle that takes you to their other property closer to town… I’d suggest using it if you want a free way to get to and from town. Property is not close to town and the walk is rather long.
The Gardunos on site had a good server and we had dinner on their patio with our dogs so that was nice. They have strong margs which are delish. We didnt use the hot tub and the pool wasn’t open on our last visit.
A pretty bare bones place, adequate in that it was good to have a place to sleep that was relatively clean but it’s definitely not a luxury resort. They don’t have a microwave or fridge but they did have coffee available.

This is not a luxury hotel, but it has everything needed for a comfortable stay and a great staff! No bellman, unfortunately. Exercise room, swimming pool, hot tub, restaurant. Free wifi and free shuttle to the plaza starting at 9:30−10 pm, free walking tours sat & Sun. Just great all around!

Nice hotel with beautiful views of the mountains. The staff is friendly and accommodating. Need to update the TV. My 27 inch tv in 1991 had a better picture than this 19 inch tv.

There is no microwave or fridge in the room. I would not stay here again. I’ve stayed in far cheaper hotels that have fridges and microwaves in the room. For what you pay here you should at least get that.
The front desk did not tell me that I’d see a $ 30 pending charge for incidentals. It would have been nice to know (never had that happen at any other hotel).
I was woken up often but other guests, staff knocking on doors, and a dog barking.
Overall this hotel was a huge let down. I will never stay again. Please go elsewhere. Don’t be fooled by the pretty exterior.

First set of keys didn’t work
Gym lighting is horrible. Most the light bulbs were out. One treadmill slipped almost caused me to fall. I switched to the other treadmill which didn’t work
Toilet seat is broken.
Smells of old hotel. Probably the carpet. Kinda of when smoking used to be allowed type of smell.
Agree with other comments on much better places to stay in Santa Fe

The service at the lodge is 100% God awful.
We stayed at the lodge for a valentine’s getaway and the screwups started right away with the missing bottle of wine we had ordered for the room. Apparently the front desk was supposed to give us a voucher that we were to take to the bar so we could pick out our bottle. We had to go back to the bar and actually get it ourselves.
Then the shower doesn’t drain. No answer at the front desk.
Then the heater kicks on to high overnight.
Then we order breakfast and are told it will be delivered in 15 minutes. When we call an hour later all we get is attitude from the front desk. Our food finally does arrive and it’s obviously been under a warmer for half an hour. Oh and they forgot my toast.
Don’t bother. There’s better deals in Santa fe with better locations.