Having grown up in Alamogordo and living around the nation we appreciate coming home to Otero county every year for a week after Christmas, and for the past 15 years have stated at the Desert Aire mostly because of my fond memories of this hotel from the 1960s and appreciation that it still remains in business and very much the same as i remember.
The Desert Aire is, in most respects pretty much unchanged in 2023 and that alone keeps us coming back.
We stay at hotels if all types of modern resorts and hotels but like the unique places with some character to remind us that the world is still full of unique and interesting people and places
The Desert Aire represents individualism and individual character. There is no other hotel exactly like it, holding tight to the art deco, small town, Southwestern NM character that has almost vanished from the scene.
The Desert Aire remains standing almost all alone as an example of life and times in small, isolated Alamogordo of the 1950s and 1960s
It meets our needs and still guves us more than a bed and breakfast and place to park. It is a reminder that the past is real and you can still touch and experience it if you want to try and.
Put aside any comparisons with modern corporate lodging. The Desert Aire is perfectly adequate is all respects today just as it was over 60 years ago in a small, remote town in the Tularosa Basin.
That is why we stay, and that is why we return
