Deep Creek Motel

Love this place! Friendly manager, clean rooms — with a bit of personality, comfortable beds, all the TV channels you need, a good restaurant just across the street, a very short drive to Snow Valley, and reasonably priced. I’m pretty sure they have wifi too, but I didn’t use it — so check first if that’s important to you. The only thing I didn’t like is the lack of blackout curtains — again, another motel on the mountain with white blinds that block almost zero light. I just don’t get that (and neither does the manager, he’s been lobbying the owner for blackout curtains). As one of only 2 hotels near Snow Valley, they do fill up on weekends during ski season — so be smart, make a reservation. Oh — and they don’t have a website, or email — you actually have to call :-(.

Staff was super friendly and accommodating. Gave us a great price and tried to make this a really great experience for us. I know other people have complained about the decorations but I find them hilarious… 3d art? Who does that? :)
Overall great experience and treatment and the dog that wonders the property is a plus. Such a sweetheart

We decided to take a quick last minute trip to Big Bear area on the 4^th of July Weekend after family BBQ. I knew all the camping places will be booked so I called few resorts, cabin rentals, b&b and hotels. Most of them were booked and others really jacked up the price for the Holiday weekend. This place was in between the Crestline, Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake so it seemed to be a perfect spot to spend a night. No pictures on the Unilocal kinda worried me but it was cheap $ 65 for 2 queens with AC so why not. It’s pretty run down and all the bedsheets are mixed matched. Bathroom was clean and shower was hot with good water pressure. Pretty quiet at night with a window fully open for some cool breeze. I really cannot complain. The painted wall décor in my room was crazy though.

C’mon people, it’s a motel, not a four seasons.
Decided to go on a last minute ski trip to Snow Valley, and everything else was booked. So we gave this place a shot. This place was just fine for what we needed — a place to sleep the night before skiing.
Pros:
Super friendly staff
Painless check-​in/​out
Vacancy!
Clean sheets, towels
Close to Snow Valley
Economical
Cons:
Floors could use a detail cleaning
Rowdy upstairs neighbors — best to ask for an upper floor room if available
Walls/​ceiling could use some soundproofing
Overall we were very happy with Deep Creek and would book here again.

I’m not quite sure what all the bad reviews are about. It’s a motel, not a 5 star classy joint. I’m a born and raised city girl as well and I’ve stayed in down-​and-​dirty hostels in Sri Lanka to 5 star hotels in the States so I didn’t expect much from a motel in cabin central. Even then, I thought our room had what we needed after a long day of snowboarding: a bed and a clean shower. Considering what it is expected from a motel (and I’ve stayed in some skeavy places), I thought the place was well-​maintained and was clean. We’ll be coming back for the rest of the season.
We had our fire alarm beeping because the battery was low and Jim came right away to change the battery out. Both Jim and Ross who work the front desk are very friendly folks. It’s in a great location and very easy to get to. Rates are excellent — especially because we don’t care to spend over $ 100 every single time we head up to the mountains this season. Everything we needed was close by — mountain, bars, breakfast spot.
FYI, ladies, if you need a hairdryer, they don’t have one of those built-​in ones so you have to bring your own, which I luckily did.

We were too tired to drive to LA after enjoying the mountains last September. Yes, we should have taken the time to read about motels on Unilocal on my blackberry. But we just wanted crash space. We got a room at 8 in the evening. IT smelled musty. I opened a window, wished I carried fabreeze. After a while it was not getting better and was getting cold. I went back to the office and was going to ask for another room, but a lady was already there complaining about mold in her room. I was lucky mine was probably just on it’s way to mold. In retrospect I should have just downed enough coffee to drive home.

given the fact that i am a city girl, yes, this place is bad. the exterior actually looks decent (at night). the interior, however, is just… scary.
there is a fridge and microwave and some contraption to lock down the tv to the dresser although the tv is not actually on this particular contraption. here are the things that i just could not live with:
–bedsheets are not plain white and do not even match on both double beds
–when i flipped over 1 of the pillows, there was a dead spider on the pillowcase. we decided not to use that bed.
–on the bed we did use, i used the garment bag from my luggage to cover the sheets for fear of bed bugs. yes, i actually slept on a garment bag and yes, i am short enough to fit my whole body on the garment bag.
–we did not use their blankets so my boyfriend and i had to share the snuggie from his car. we got 1 snuggie arm each.
although i complain a lot, i am not a complete snob. i can live with below 3-​star accommodations and unlike my weirdo boyfriend, i actually got (a little) sleep the 1 night we stayed there. [he thought the place was haunted. i, however, thought (and still think) that he was just being a big baby and i do not support his claim in this review.] we were supposed to stay there 3 nights but we decided to just drive home after snowboarding.