Alamogordo's Holiday Inn Express is a beautiful, relatively new hotel towards the south of town, at 100 Kerry Avenue, just east of highways US 70 and US 54. The inn offers 80 rooms & suites on 3 floors, and all the expected facilities including an indoor pool/whirlpool, health & fitness center, business center, meeting room, guest laundry and free breakfast bar, but it earns a reputation as the best hotel in town on account of the quiet location, friendly staff, reasonable rates and excellent standard of cleanliness. The nearest restaurants, bars and shops are a short distance north along S White Sands Blvd.

Like most hotels in Alamogordo, NM, the Comfort Inn & Suites is located along S White Sands Blvd, the main road into the center of town - near the south edge of the suburbs close to highways US 70 & US 54. This hotel is on the west side of the road half a mile from the highway junction, in a desert setting with undeveloped land to the rear but with mountain views to the east. Downtown Alamogordo is 2 miles north of the hotel, and the White Sands regional airport is 3 miles south. The Comfort Inn has a seasonal outdoor pool, exercise room and picnic area.

The Best Western hotel in Alamogordo sits right opposite the Comfort Inn, at 1021 S White Sands Blvd, on the east side of the highway, half a mile from the US 70/54 junction. The inn is built as 3 sides of a quadrangle - 92 rooms on 2 floors, with exterior corridors - at the center of which is the parking area and outdoor pool/hot tub. The immediate surroundings are for the most part sandy desert, but downtown Alamogordo is just 2 miles north, and the nearest restaurants are a few blocks away. Deluxe free continental breakfast is served; other amenities are an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, games room and gift shop.

Quality Inn Alamogordo, at 1401 S White Sands Blvd, has a largely rural setting near the southwest edge of town, just north of the US 70/54 junction. The main attraction in this area, White Sands National Monument, is 15 miles away on highway 70, and various attractions in Alamogordo are within 6 miles, including the New Mexico Space History Museum, White Sands Mall and Alameda Park Zoo. The hotel has the standard amenities of outdoor pool, breakfast bar and guest laundry.