Meadowlark Motel with Restaurant & Bar - Maggie Valley NC - Motel in Maggie Valley - 2878 Soco Rd suite m3, USA

Don’t sleep (no pun intended) on this small older motel in the heart if Maggie Valley NC. Clean accommodations right by a creek to explore. The speakeasy with entertainment was great and the eclectic decor interesting. Some great cocktails and wines there made for a relaxing evening. Refrigerator and microwave in the room was nice for bringing snacks and heating leftovers. The staff were very friendly and accommodating to every thing we needed. Our sweet little pup was welcomed as well. The owner Joseph was super nice and even helped us to get an item we mistakenly left behind. For our visit to this charming mountain town the Meadowlark Motel was just what we needed for a weekend getaway.

Not sure how it gets 4.3 stars but the facility is aged, and in desperate need of modern touches. My half of the bed was on a collapsed box spring and I think it might be a spring type mattress that has been collapsed over the many, many years of repeated use. The decor was aged 1950'ish, literally. That being said, it was clean and spacious and the guy running it was very nice. Breakfast was a freezer full of frozen breakfast stuff to microwave opposite a full service kitchen with a grill that wasn't open. That was pretty much it. Whoever thought that arrangement up was tired of it all, a long time ago. I wouldn't bother eating breakfast at the breakfast joint next door. Coffee and service were good. Forget ordering anything gravy off the menu.

It is an older facility so as you may expect the bathrooms haven't been remodeled but it was clean. It looks like they recently added a new refrigerator and microwave and the cable was good but I had to go to the office to get batteries for the remote. As someone else mentioned the mattress was hard as a rock. Very little sleep on this trip. There was a small table with two straight back chairs but no other place to sit other than the bed. After the sun went down you could sit in the chairs outside in front of the room. They only offered room cleaning on the 7th day so you needed to place your towels outside to have them cleaned and replaced. We had to ask for towels each day as none were returned to our room. The first night we were given towels that looked like rags with stains and one had a huge hole in it. The second night we were given pool towels as we were told they ran out of bath towels and hand towels. We only stayed 3 nights even though we paid for 4. Just couldn't go another night without sleep. I probably wouldn't go back.

Stayed here as a last minute impromptu visit while we were passing through town. The price was fair and it allowed pets so that was good enough for us. This turned out to be such a pleasant experience. As we checked in, I saw something on the sign about a "speakeasy" and couldn't believe it. So I did some digging and sure enough...they have a speakeasy & live music in the basement! Who knew!?! The atmosphere was cute, friendly bartenders and good music (folky/bluegrass that night). My bf and I had a good time laughing at some of the Google reviews previous guests left. Some of them are ridiculous...complaining about off site restaurants that have absolutely nothing to do with this motel. If you're expecting a luxury resort...you're in the wrong town. You will be disappointed. But if you've ever been to Maggie Valley before then you know what to expect. This place was quaint, local, clean & the owners were nice. The breakfast far exceeded my expectations! It's simple yet versatile and better than ANY chain hotel breakfast that I've had in years. Random, but I love the keychain that the room key is on...and the fact that we have an actual KEY. Definitely goes along with the nostalgic theme that this place gives. To Recap here's my Favs: -Allows pets -Good drinks & live music -Location / Safe -Nice breakfast -Clean linens -Friendly staff/Locally owned Would definitely stay again if we're in town.

We went to a party in the area and didn't want to drive home late, so we grabbed a room at the Meadowlark. Friendly, family-run atmosphere. The hotel was clean and we had a very comfortable night.

Visiting this beautiful area with friends who had been frequenting the Meadowlark for years. I was so excited about this really cool place with weekend BBQ dinners on the creek at a pavilion, karayoke, firepits, rocking chairs on the porch, restaurant and bar... sounded too good to be true. And it was. I will say... it was clean, the staff was friendly, there was a free grab & go breakfast area, there was a tiny crowded bar area with live music, the beds were firm and comfortable, the ice machine was working, there were sturdy rocking chairs outside each room, there were firepits with wood provided (but no starters or kindling), and the other guests around us were fun, friendly, and down-to-earth. But the pool was closed, the pavilion dinners are a thing of the past, the restaurant was closed, no ventilation in the bathroom and the tiny window would not open, the TV is Roku (whatever that is) and we could never get it work for anything but streaming so no local TV or network programs. Neither could anyone else around us. The gathering place in the evenings is on the concrete area outside the rooms and there is a table and rocking chairs. It was fun talking with the other guests but there are bright overhead lights and they attracted bugs and made it difficult to view the beautiful mountains in front of us. This could be a really cool place, and I'm sure it once was. But there are a lot of improvements that could be made to bring it back to it's former glory. In the meanwhile, please update your website with the actual amenities you now provide and concentrate on providing the extras that will continue to bring your guests back again.

Went to the Speakeasy for a few drinks. The band was good. The bar is in a very small contained, but quaint basement area. I felt very claustrophobic. It reminded me of a 1970 "Hookua" lounge minus the smoke. Good luck 🤞

Staying here the evening of writing this post. Leaving in the morning a day early, because this place is a sharthole. Room is dingey and musty smelling. This isn't "retro", this is reminiscent of staying at your grannies in the sixties, and not in a good way. My grannie was cheap and had tacky furniture. That is what this room reminds me of. The bed is creaky, mattress springs are digging in my back as I write. Thin blanket, flat pillows. Bathroom sink area has faded, cracked caulking and nasty faucet handles missing the caps that cover the rusty screws. Just like grandmas sink. Bathroom woodwork trim dirty and needs painted. "Retro" bathroom floor tile is permanently dirty. It's noisy here. The air blowing out of the noisy air conditioner stinks. And the cheap, yellowing light bulbs emit depressing light from the cheap, old, faded and yellowed lamp shades. The ambience here is, again, just like your grannies. Except she wouldn't put up with the nonsense noise here, she would be outside with her broom yelling for everyone to keep it down. The people in the lobby apparently don't care a handful of guests are rude enough to keep other guests disturbed. I wouldn't recommend this place at all. I can't wait to be back in my own bed tomorrow, even though we will take a hit by having to pay for this smelly nightmare one more night anyways because hotel the policy doesn't take unhappy guests into consideration. No refund permitted. We asked to check out early because of the smelly, uncomfortable and frankly, ugly room, as well as the noise, so this is not a "retribution review". I could have mentioned plenty of other issues but did not, such as the cheap furniture with the blistered tops, or the hair and dust covered bedbase cover, which we saw after pulling the bed back to plug in an electronic device (one outlet on one wall with the power strip blocked by the bed). The noise wasn't due to the road. It was noisy guests, thin floors making the foot noise of guests above evident, and cars/motorcycles pulling in and out until late at night. This is a smelly, ugly and noisy hotel, and we were not comfortable and couldn't sleep . Period. TOO MANY OTHER OPTIONS AND BEAUTIFUL VRBOs IN THE AREA TO BOOK THIS JOINT. We won't be making this mistake again.