Take them in, usually up the stairs. We usually stay at Holiday Inn Express and they have ridiculously tight elevators. When we went to New Mexico two years ago we had two mountain bikes and two road bikes, all went in with us! Our lodge owner thought it was cool, he wanted to know where we were riding and what we saw.

We stayed at both a Hampton and Holiday Inn Express during mountain bike season, always ended up having other bikers there and the hotel didn't even blink an eye at all the bikes coming in.