Psst! Want to know a secret? It's the Holiday Motel in Elko, NV. After seeing so many 5-star reviews for this 2-star motel (on Google, not necessarily here on Yelp yet) , and the lowest rate in the area, I decided to give it a try.
I first stayed here on 7/10/22. I'm back here today on 7/19 because it can't be beat. $57 gets you a place to sleep, clean up, and it even has a mini-fridge with a real freezer! Not the standard type that has a tiny box inside of the fridge. (Don't ask why, but that's very important to me...) 9 out of 10 Hotels can't even match that.
How do Sonia and Dan do it? They are the sweetest couple of owners I've ever met and take great pride in their business. I think Dan told me the hotel is something like 100 years old. Other than the central air, you can't tell. There may be no way to adjust the temperature to your precise liking, but 72 degrees should be comfortable to most. Everything in the room seems recently remodeled and is very clean.
Don't get me wrong, if you're picky, this may not be for you. There's no continental breakfast or coffee maker in the room (research in-room coffee makers in hotels and tell me you genuinely want one), but it doesn't matter. I feel like this place somehow exists in a prior era and forgot how to raise prices. I absolutely love it and the hosts who also run pretty much everything by themselves.
Clean, quiet, friendly. I will stay no place else when staying in Elko.
Honestly, the competition could learn a thing or two from this place. Is it possible to fall in love with a motel? I didn't think so before but here I am again... read more