Someone has taken an outdated motel and put a lot of thought into remodeling the rooms to accommodate what travelers like. The beds are super comfortable, with nice linens. The bathroom has been updated with a nice stone walk-in shower and fluffy towels. The heating unit in our room is a wall mounted "fireplace" which creates a cozy feel in the room. There's a mini fridge, plenty of drawers, a closet and hooks by the door to hang winter jackets and scarves. The motel is located in a quiet neighborhood, surrounded by motels that have, sadly, gone out of business. Our dogs were welcomed, which was nice.

The downside is that Avalon Lodge is an old motel with squeaky, rickety stairs that make a lot of noise as people come and go at all hours. Our room was on the ground level and we were woken by a family who arrived fairly late and like a lot of folks these days had no concept of being quiet out of respect for others. However, if you're a night owl, the noise issue might not affect you.

We bought the stay at the Avalon Lodge through Living Social. Our room was a bargain! I just checked prices on line, and I'm not sure our room is worth $159 a night. The room might be, but the possibility of nocturnal noise would make me hesitate to pay so much.

Would I consider staying here again. Probably. It's a nice, clean, comfortable option for South Lake Tahoe.

We found out about the Avalon Lodge because of a Living Social special that was offered in Sacramento. We were just excited to find a spot in South Lake Tahoe for the weekend to celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary. We were not sure what to expect as the website showed the rooms as very clean and plush but no real photos of the outside. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the lodge was right off of South Lake Tahoe Blvd. and Park Ave. Only 3 blocks from the beach, the casino's and Heavenly Village. We were a little worried upon arrival because as most of the hotels in the area, it looked shut down for the season. It also appeared upon first glance to be a rather rinky-dink lodge based on its age, but still held onto a sense of it being quaint and full of charm. We felt that the Avalon Lodge was South Lake Tahoe's little hidden secret with alpine charm. The folks in the reception area were very pleasant and helpful, in addition they offered many amenities that we did not even expect.

The parking was sketchy directly near some of the rooms, but there was plenty more parking available. Our room was absolutely gorgeous! Clean, plush, warm and comfortable beds, new furniture, new rugs, and paint, new tiles all added up to recently renovated rooms. As we went at the end of October it was quite chilly so we were very excited that each room had a gas fireplace. The bathrooms were beautiful with all slate floors, walls and shower. The bathrooms had all brand new fixtures, faucets, sinks, toilets. etc.; but our big disappointment was with the lack of a bath tub. The showers are huge although when showering the water is nice and hot, since it is all slate, and there is nothing but a shower curtain it gets cold super fast. Your feet are cold and the cold air just flows over the tops of the shower curtain. It took forever for me to warm up and that is not usually the case for me. It would have been nice if they has heated slate floors or even some sort of heating element in the bathroom at all.

Luckily they offered hot coffee, tea, chocolate or hot mulled cider with nice, large, heavy mugs in the reception area to help keep you warm. The rooms warmed fairly quickly with the gas fireplace as the only heating device in the rooms, but not in the bathrooms.

Free breakfast was offered with our stay, which were nothing to write home about, but better than nothing. Hot oatmeal, cold cereal and milk, juice, coffee, tea's, hot chocolate, and Greek yogurt with fresh fruit and they were supposed to have granola but it turned out to just be really hard granola bars chopped up into chunks. The large mugs of coffee were nice, plus each room had their own small coffee makers, small refrigerators, and a microwave.

With our Living social special we had a bottle of champagne, two champagne flutes, a box of gourmet chocolates, and wine tasting for two at the Apres Wines. It was a wonderful deal and will do it again when it is offered but never in the winter due to the bathroom situation.

Overall, we loved our stay at the Avalon Lodge but will limit our stays to a warmer season.

The hotel its self is nicely updated and looks pretty clean and staff is nice the only thing why i will never return is because the last night i was awaken but a tickling feeling on my arm when i told my husband he turned on the light and there on my arm surley was a big quarter sized spider. awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so my husband killed it we couldnt sleep much after so we went out for food to applebees down the street once we got back i was getting in bed and as i laid down i saw from the corner of my eye something running across the pillow i looked over and on the corner of the pillow was another spider i killed it but from there out i was sure not going to stay in that room so i called front desk explained and they gave us another room according to the staff they have a problem with spiders during the winter. other than the spiders it was a decent place,

2 nights of very disturbed sleep on the 1st floor of this motel. Was relieved to get home for some rest. Upstairs neighbors had 2 large dogs that played all night. Drunk people shouted outside the window at 2am. Nice staff and bathrooms. Rooms a bit dark, but OK. Overall not a good experience and will not return.