Sandia Courtyard Hotel

A second (or third) the previous reviews. It’s a decent place, with my rates huffering around 60 a night plus tax and including free wifi which is a little slow, but not unbearable. Staff is very friendly. I would ask for a court side room, they are much quieter than the parking lot side. Also, second floor seems better, as the first floor has big ass sliding doors which open right up to the parking lot and need a charlie bar for security. It creeps me out for some reason when people leave this open, usually with a view of beer cans through the slit in the curtain (or as the case was last night). I have some ants in my bathroom, but otherwise its not bad. Carpets are gross, but I am learning that that is a standard of low end motels in New Mexico.

It was in every way just a typical, average hotel room. The rooms were bigger than I expected, and they offered free breakfast and wi-​fi. After taxes and fees, I think it ended up being around $ 70/​night. Definitely a good rate compared to other hotels in the area! The hotel wasn’t brand-​sparkling new, but it wasn’t creepy or decrepit in any way, and I had no problems sleeping through the night.
I could see on the map that it’s right off the freeway; but I didn’t expect it to be so seriously immediately off the freeway — turn right at the very first chance, and the hotel is *right there*. It’s nearby Target and a just a couple restaurants, and Wal-​Mart is across the freeway.

I stayed here last year for a convention and the staff (everyone: front desk at the hotel, management, waitresses at the hotel restaurants) was gay friendly, which I do not always find once I leave say, the Castro. In the mornings they provide a pantheon of breakfast food in a little room which happened to be just down the hall. Nothing really high end, but serviceable scrambled eggs, pastries, hot and cold cereal and coffee, tea and hot cocoa. There is a TV going up in the corner, but the guests tend to mingle and chit chat, which was surreal for me because I ambled down the hall in my Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence T-​shirt with a giant Virgin of Guadalupe with the quote «We Are All Pink on the Inside» silkscreened in pink and felt like I went to elementary school with no underpants (and no coffee). Anyway. No one snatched up their children and I had a chance to grab some joe and hunch over at a table so I could participate in exercising a social skill or two.
The rooms were pleasant and clean, they have a work out room I had no interest in, and a pets can stay with a deposit policy I did not take advantage of.
The formatting on the reviews did not let me add this toll free number, so here ya go: (800) 877‑4852