Checking in at the Flying 'J' truck stop was a pain as the cashier there was more interested
in jollying up the truck drivers than renting a room. I had a reservation but upon checking in
they tried to charge me more than the previously agreed-upon rate. The gal said that they had raised the rate a few days before. I hollered and she relented. Still---a decent , basic room at a fair price. I'd stay there again.

The photos are wrong. When you click on the photos Trip Advisor links to a bunch of photos for a cute looking bed and breakfast type of place. It is NOT Eagles Landing motel in Beaver, Utah.

I have uploaded photos of the actual motel. See for yourself.

We booked one night at Eagles Landing as a stop over while we drove from Moab to Las Vegas. We selected the motel based on the photos from Trip Advisor. We stayed in May of 2010. I swear to you, the Trip Advisor photos are WRONG. This place is NOT a cute bed and breakfast!

The motel is a stand alone building, and the check-in is across the street at the gas station (which was fine with me). However, the doors to the motel itself are unlocked. Anyone can walk into the motel. These doors should have been locked and should have been able to be opened only by a room key card.

The gas station is very, very, very busy (because it is the only one for hundreds of miles on the highway). There are people coming and going 24 hours at the gas station. Anyone of them could have walked right into the motel. Bad security.

No coffee maker, hair dryer, iron, or microwave in the rooms. No lobby, so no coffee anywhere other than at the gas station across the street. There is a TV, phone, very small refrigerator (no freezer compartment) and an alarm clock. The walls are so thin we could hear the person in the next room clinking ice in his glass. This became a problem when his alarm clock began ringing at 5:20 AM and he ignored it until 6:00. The shower was nice, but the curtain was a little short and only overlapped the tub edge by an inch or so, making it necessary to keep putting the curtain back inside to avoid getting the floor wet. There were several smears of some sticky food on the nightstand, and a blob of something pink on the TV channel card. When we dropped a pillow on the floor next to the bed and then went to use it, it got dirt all over the bed.
Good: The room was fairly new, and the bathroom was clean. Shower worked well. Internet access was OK – slow on Upload, but fairly fast Download.
Bad: No coffeemaker, dryer, microwave, iron, etc. Dirty nightstand and floor. Paper-thin walls.

Wound up in Beaver on the Friday night before Labor Day and figured that I would have no chance at a hotel. There are a lot of awful looking motels in Beaver, so I went online and saw this place was #1, even beating out the Best Western Butch Cassidy (which was full).
This is place is RIGHT off of the interstate and across the street from a very, very busy gas station. Getting in and out of the parking lot (there's only one side that you can enter on) can be problematic because of the traffic.
As you pull up, the sign on the hotel mentions the rates and has a sign stating "Registration" pointing to the gas station. Sure enough, there's a register at the end of the counter inside where you check in. I got $50 for that night, which was $5 more than the Rodeway across the freeway was advertising, but $2 less than a smaller place in town had quoted me. I had to sign a sheet that spelled out their non-smoking policy ($100 cleaning fee if you do) and that I wouldn't steal their towels.
The building is obviously very new, and that's even more apparent as you enter. Nice carpet in the hall, well-maintained and a surprisingly pleasant floral aroma. There are two floors and about 12 rooms on each floor, so it's a relatively small hotel.
The room was wonderful. Large, with two double beds, a microwave, a mini-fridge, a flat panel TV with limited cable, and one of those toilets with the two different flushes. Everything looked new, exceptionally clean and very nice. And I can see why they put that "don't steal the towels" clause in that sheet I signed: the towels are awesome. The bath towels are very long and wide.
The wifi worked well and was very fast. It works on an encryption code (series of numbers), but it's printed on a sheet below the TV. The cable was Dish Network, and they had the local channels (from Salt Lake, I think), Discovery, Cartoon Network and a couple of news stations, in addition to a few others. Nothing amazing, but it, along with the wifi, kept me entertained.
The hotel is far separated from town, but you do still have the gas station across the street, which happens to have a taco shop inside. There are a couple of other places across the freeway as well, but plenty of stuff within easy driving distance in Beaver. I was worried about the noise from the interstate and trucks coming out of the gas station across the street, but I heard nothing.
So points off for:
- The check-in being inside of a gas station. It was just annoying and weird but it probably saves them money.
- The walls were very thin. I could hear the people behind me talking and, later that night, had to run my a/c higher because of their snoring. But I'm a bit of a noise nazi.
All in all, this is really a 2.5* hotel with a 1.5 or low-end 2* price. I mean, it was better than a lot of so-called 3*s that I've stayed in. The Super 8 next door and even closer to the interstate was running $15 more that night and the other well-rated hotels in town were running even higher. If you're looking for a stopping point on your way down I-15, then this would be a very good choice.