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Built in 1976 with remodeling ongoing, this is one of four New Mexico hotels owned by Southwest Innkeepers, providing spacious rooms and good amenities, though you have to like to walk. Rooms are built around a huge quadrangle with an indoor pool in a sunny, plant-filled courtyard at the center. Request a room at one of the four corner entrances to avoid trudging down the long hallways. Also, request a room that is facing outside rather than in toward the courtyard, where noise from the pool carries. Though not quite as efficient as the Holiday Inn Express, more amenities are provided here. Rooms are bright; they're done in floral prints with Aztec trim. Beds are firm, and bathrooms are medium-size and clean.

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