Inn At Snowshoe

If you are looking for a budget friendly option at Snowshoe this is your best bet. The Inn regularly offers $ 40 weekday specials. We have been twice this season, the rooms were clean, bathroom was in decent shape, breakfast was included. Don’t go in expecting luxurious accommodations and you will be fine.

This is third trip, but last two were awhile ago. The place has fallen on hard times. The Intrawest Corporation is putting their money up the hill. They book their own and throw this to the Hotel searchs at a decent price. Oh yeah, this is the middle of nowhere so you have little choice.
The upkeep issues mean the bathroom door is peeling apart, but you do have an ironing board that beats against it if you close the door. The rubber trim pieces (cobond) is falling off. The remote for the ac/​heater doesn’t work. The TV had a red streak but you aren’t here to watch TV. You have to go to the lobby to use wifi. But that is due to location in National Radio Quiet Zone, National Radio Astronomy Observation Center is over the ridge and they don’t like extra things in air like microwaves (think your cell phone that hasn’t worked in about an hour drive). But you get a basic breakfast for free!
If you’re on family trip, check out West Virginia Cass Village for cabin, maybe Marlinington, well there are very few choices.

It’ll do the job at two stars. Located a reasonable drive/​shuttle from Snowshoe, convenient to a few food/​alcohol options. (Props to Louis B. for pointing out the ski rental shops.) Average sized parking lot, efficient front desk staff. Two reasonably soft queen beds with two flattish pillows each, TV with basic premium channels, Brandi’s Restaurant hot breakfast buffet vouchers. Two key cards per room. Linens were clean, radiator was fussy but worked. Two handicap-​accessible hot tubs (sausage stew that night so we opted out), kiddie pool, and main pool with a creepy view from the restaurant (dinner and a show?). Cheapest lodging option by far. If I had to complain about any one thing, it’d be the lack of salt/​sand on the parking lot. Wi-​fi would’ve been nice but I’m sure that falls under the same local restrictions for why there’s no cell service.

This place is DISGUSTING! Walking in, the tile is old and always dirty, the carpets haven’t been cleaned for about 20-​years and are black, crusty and gross. The roof leaks, the beds are hard and walls are paper thin with the wall paper peeling off. THERE WAS A HOLE IN OUR ROOM! (seriously) the A/​C is just stuck in a cut-​out hole in the wall. NO Wi-​Fi! Despite what they claim, the wi-​fi does not work. Ever. (NO cellphone service either). The service the Inn uses, (Frontier) is always out and just plain doesn’t work. The staff is very rude and wouldn’t even let me borrow a screw driver for two seconds to fix my snowboard. This is mostly a gross cheap party hotel if you plan on just getting wasted and pass out on the slate rock beds. The only pro is the location if you can’t stay on the top of the mountain. However, even then, I would suggest staying at the Hampton Inn in the town of Elkins about an hour away.

I wish I could give this place a better rating. The location of the Inn is enviable. But frankly, staying here is a time warp to a late ‘70s Holiday Inn when they still had Gulf stations nearby, or perhaps reminiscent of a Freshman college dorm. A friend of mine stayed here and when I came down the mountain to give him a ride up to the ski area, we did an extensive tour of the place and had a meal at the premises. Yes, it’s self contained with a heated pool, jacuzzi and a game room. Yes, it has a restaurant on the premises of mediocre quality. Yes, it’s the most reasonable accommodations on the mountain. Yes, the staff is very nice and congenial. But the facility is dated enough to be truly called totally outdated, way more outdated than what a well-​deserved paint job could do to spruce it up. The windows are drafty. Some of the door are out of plumb. The carpet wreaks of old cigarette smoke overpowered by carpet cleaner smell. And if you stay on the road side of the hotel, the thin windows don’t fully mask the noise outside.
On the good side, it’s almost touch-​close from the Sub shop, two rental ski locations that will run circles around what you can get on top of the mountain, very close to the market and gas station, walking distance to the bank, and less than a quarter mile to the Red Barn for your shopping necessities.
If you want to feel like Lieutenant Uhura beamed you to a planet outside the Starfleet Federation living in a different era… or if you want to stay on the cheap… very cheap… in both money and quality, this is the place for you. If you want comfort and a modicum of quality, go somewhere else. And I would wish that Snowshoe would close this place down for a summer and renovate it top to bottom. It needs it.

One word: Roaches
I recently stayed at the Inn at Snowshoe for business and was incredibly disappointed (and disgusted).
The hotel looked dirty from the moment we entered, especially in comparison to the loveliness of Snowshoe Mountain/​Village. When our group seemed concerned, the staff was rude. There is no phone service (on AT&T or Verizon) or wifi. The only internet access was in a small room off the main lobby, set up with a couple of folding tables.
The rooms themselves were outdated and dirty. On the morning of checkout one of my coworkers found a roach in his bathroom. Had this been found the night before, we would have left immediately.
They stopped serving breakfast long before the designated time. Our crew had to drive the 15 minutes up the mountain to find other dining options. (And, for the record, the Snowshoe Village on the mountain has several great dining options.)
Do not stay here! Spend your time in one of Snowshoe’s other lodges instead.

I really liked our visit to the Snowshoe Mountain area, but I sure wish we had chosen a different lodging option, of which there seem to be many. The beds were super hard and uncomfortable, not only were the walls very thin, but so were the floors (I could feel the floor moving under my feet), and in the morning I could smell cigarette smoke coming in through the ventilation in the bathroom, even though we were not only in a non-​smoking room, but in a section of non-​smoking rooms. The staff were nice but they often gave erroneous information and service in the restaurant was pretty slow and imcomplete. The redeeming quality here is location — a very bucolic mountain setting within a very short drive of the mountain top and village. But if you can find something else and afford anything better, get it!
Tip: Be sure to check central reservations, not just Expedia and other sites like that, because our friend not only got a better deal that way, he was also given a $ 50 gift card for use at many places on the mountain.