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Discover Permian Basin Lodging Options for Your Traveling Crews

May 29, 2025

Explore how LodgeLink can help connect your travelling crews with Permian Basin lodging solutions.

When it comes to West Texas, the hot arid climate, agriculture, cattle ranching, and the booming oil and gas industry instantly come to mind.

We’re not experts in farming, but we do know a thing or two about the oil and gas industry and what it takes to manage complex workforce lodging in high demand markets.

The Permian Basin spans over 85,000 square miles across West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. Since the first major discovery of petroleum deposits in the early 1900s, the area has become a driving force behind the local economy and the top-producing oil and gas region in the United States.

With the increasing demand for petroleum-related products and exports over the last century, the Permian Basin continues to be an active site for workers in the oil and gas industry. This presents the need for temporary extended stay and corporate housing solutions.

Some of the current major players in the oil and gas industry across the Permian Basin are located in:

Midland
Odessa
Lubbock
Pecos
Carlsbad
Big Spring

The climate allows for year-round working conditions—unlike other regions—making extended stay motels, hotels near oil fields, and remote project lodging crucial for companies operating in these areas.

Hotels and camps fill up quickly, especially when seasonal demand spikes. If your travel management isn't optimized, your teams may spend unnecessary time commuting and your budget can quickly spiral.

What does this mean for companies that require crew accommodation in these small and often limited markets?

Hotels and camps fill up quickly and the demand drives up prices. If you’re even a minute too late to the game, your crews may spend extra time on the road each day and you could end up over budget — especially when rates increase during peak months.

That’s where LodgeLink can help.

We recognized a gap in the current Permian Basin lodging marketplace. Camps are being built rapidly, but in remote locations, making it difficult for workers to know what is available to them.

Over the past decade, we’ve built a strong ecosystem of partner hotels and lodges to connect the workforce to better crew lodging solutions in the Permian Basin. Using our innovative technology, we help travel managers streamline their crew travel programs with tools to find, book and manage accommodation all on the same platform.

A tablet and phone on the LodgeLink app showing travel management technology.

Search

Due to the nature of their job, the length of their stay and their unusual work hours, workforce travellers are in need of amenities like large truck parking, after-hour meal service and laundry facilities.

Using our enhanced search functionality, travel managers can easily filter through Permian Basin lodging options by narrowing search results to only show properties with the amenities that matter most to your crews.

Book

When you find a property that checks all your boxes, reserve your rooms in record time using our advanced crew hotel scheduling features. Upload a CSV file of your crew list to save time manually entering names. From there, you can select multiple guests to add to your booking.

Easily update individual crew schedules in a single reservation with our advanced scheduling tool — a powerful feature for managing large crew reservations. Plus, designate night shift workers and manage supervisor permissions.

Manage

Our crew accommodation platform supports real-time itinerary updates, GPS tracking, and workforce travel safety features. Using GPS tracking, travel managers can keep track of traveller locations, monitor delays and send alerts in case of an emergency.

Crew travellers can access their travel itineraries and receive booking updates and alerts in real time. They get 24/7 travel booking support via phone, email or text using the mobile app.

Report

We help empower our customers to improve future crew bookings by improving spending visibility. Our interactive reporting dashboard breaks down a full cost summary by average price per night, total spend, and type of spend broken down by month, quarter, and year.

We’ve expanded our network to offer rooms in more than 18,000 properties in North America, including 239 Permian Basin lodging properties in Texas and New Mexico.

We continue to be one of North America's largest and fastest-growing corporate lodging platform.

Target Odessa West Lodge

view of lodges on west lodge's odessa property in texas

Amenities:

✓ 24/7 Front Desk Service	✓ Grab-and-Go Meals
✓ Free Parking	✗ Kitchenette (w/ Dishwasher, Fridge, and Microwave)
✓ 24-Hour Dining	✓ Free Laundry Facilities

Additional Features:

Blackout Curtains	On-Site Café & Restaurant ($)
Game/Recreation Rooms

Staybridge Suites Lubbock South

an outside view of the staybridge suites in lubbock texas

Amenities:

✓ 24/7 Front Desk Service	✓ Grab-and-Go Meals
✓ Free Parking	✓ Kitchenette (w/ Dishwasher, Fridge, and Microwave)
✓ 24-Hour Dining	✓ Free Laundry Facilities

Additional Features:

Excess Luggage Storage	1 & 2 Bedroom Suites
Pet Friendly ($)

Comfort Suites Carlsbad

an outside view of the comfort suites hotel in carlsbad, tx

Amenities:

✓ 24/7 Front Desk Service	✗ Grab-and-Go Meals
✓ Free Parking	✓ Kitchenette (w/ Fridge and Microwave)
✗ 24-Hour Dining	✓ Free Laundry Facilities

Additional Features:

Multi-lingual Staff	Convenience Store ($)
Vending Machines ($)	On-site Restaurant

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