Red Rock Vanlife Busted?

EMFR Iwrote:

Wut? You mean there aren't enough FREE and "close" places for them...in a city. There are hotels galore here in Vegas. There are also a lot of places out in the desert that are free...I can't believe people feel disgruntled about not being allowed to set up a homeless camp across the street from $500k+ houses. It's as if you think people have the right to plop their vagrant ass down anywhere they want these days...

Locals don't know costs. People get rousted in the desert unless an hour from Red rock, right? The average cheap Vegas room like Motel 6 has skyrocketed to $100 Sunday to Thursday and $200 Friday and Saturday when you include all the taxes and fees. Airbnb, VRBO etc are as high or higher. The listed fake prices online are lies. Campground is always full. Homeless are allowed to camp in the city aren't they? Are vans, RVs etc. rousted in Vegas proper?

Diego Climberwrote:

Locals don't know costs. People get rousted in the desert unless an hour from Red rock, right? The average cheap Vegas room like Motel 6 has skyrocketed to $100 Sunday to Thursday and $200 Friday and Saturday when you include all the taxes and fees. Airbnb, VRBO etc are as high or higher. The listed fake prices online are lies. Campground is always full. Homeless are allowed to camp in the city aren't they? Are vans, RVs etc. rousted in Vegas proper?

I agree with your point, but I come to Vegas frequently and unless everything has changed in the last month jokes on you if you haven’t figured out the Vegas hotel game. I stay at Luxor every time i come and have never paid over $35/night. I do get there cheapest room and the lux is the cheapest of MGM hotels. That price is without deals or rewards points. It’s a great deal until I hit the roulette tables with all the money I saved and put my life savings on black. (Happens every time) 

No the Luxor is not $35 a night total and hasn't been in years. You are talking the price online without taxes or fees. Or just the resort fee which is $35 at Luxor. The resort fee doubles or triples the room price. Is someone selling you their reservation that they can't use? Please post the site you used and date you got that price.  Screenshot preferred. You aren't getting $35 all in for the remainder of 2022. I checked Travelocity for the rest of the year. $75+ total in mid week in any month is cheapest. Pyramid 2 queen is cheapest room. And they charge for $12 additional for parking. Please prove me wrong. Most sites won't even reveal all taxes and fees online. You find out when you check in.

Diego Climberwrote:

Locals don't know costs. People get rousted in the desert unless an hour from Red rock, right? The average cheap Vegas room like Motel 6 has skyrocketed to $100 Sunday to Thursday and $200 Friday and Saturday when you include all the taxes and fees. Airbnb, VRBO etc are as high or higher. The listed fake prices online are lies. Campground is always full. Homeless are allowed to camp in the city aren't they? Are vans, RVs etc. rousted in Vegas proper?

Well, actually vegas does not like the unhoused, and passed an ordinance against "camping"

"The ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to camp or sleep in the public right-of-way, such as a sidewalk or street, downtown and in all residential areas if space is available at the Courtyard Homeless Resource Center or another nonprofit service provider in the Corridor of Hope. If all beds and spaces are full at the Courtyard and shelters, then the ordinance would not be enforced during those periods of the day."

Ashort, forget the ordinance, its enforcement that matters. If people are sleeping in vehicles in town are they roused and moved at night? That's what happened in the desert camping spots it sounds like .

Diego Climberwrote: $75+ total in mid week in august is cheapest. 

jokes on you if you’re traveling to Vegas in August AND paying that much ;) 

Diego Climberwrote:

Ashort, forget the ordinance, its enforcement that matters. If people are sleeping in vehicles in town are they roused and moved at night? That's what happened in the desert camping spots it sounds like .

What point are you trying to make?

The fact is that skid row looks as busy as ever these days. 

ZT Gwrote:

jokes on you if you’re traveling to Vegas in August AND paying that much ;) 

He wrote the cheapest price he could find for the year is $75 in August.

I too would like to hear details on how you get a hotel room in Vegas for $35 total. 

To be fair.. that pullout isn’t entirely climbers. I was there in November and there were definitely some crackhead lookin’ people in RV’s and vans doing crackhead type shit. 

Short Fall Seanwrote:

Glad they busted the conspicuous, lazy bozos. Maybe next time throw a few of them in the clink for a night or two?

Siding with cops isn't really that awesome

ZT Gwrote:

I agree with your point, but I come to Vegas frequently and unless everything has changed in the last month jokes on you if you haven’t figured out the Vegas hotel game.

Then explain the “game” to us rubes.

 I stay at Luxor every time i come and have never paid over $35/night.

Show us how aka prove it. Include all taxes and fees - esp the resort fee and parking.

Max Rwrote:

To be fair.. that pullout isn’t entirely climbers. I was there in November and there were definitely some crackhead lookin’ people in RV’s and vans doing crackhead type shit. 

Sorry to tell you but climbers do crack too.

S Twrote:

Sorry to tell you but climbers do crack too.

Noooo! We're all friendly, upstanding, intelligent, responsible citizens who only misbehave for just causes!

NegativeKwrote:

Noooo! We're all friendly, upstanding, intelligent, responsible citizens who only misbehave for just causes!

I think he meant a different kind of crack.

Diego Climberwrote:

Locals don't know costs. People get rousted in the desert unless an hour from Red rock, right? The average cheap Vegas room like Motel 6 has skyrocketed to $100 Sunday to Thursday and $200 Friday and Saturday when you include all the taxes and fees. Airbnb, VRBO etc are as high or higher. The listed fake prices online are lies. Campground is always full. Homeless are allowed to camp in the city aren't they? Are vans, RVs etc. rousted in Vegas proper?

Yeah, man, your hotel finding game is apparently terrible. I'm a local, and I frequently (like monthly) do staycations for $50-60 a night in the nice hotels. I'm positive there are plenty of other off-strip hotels for $30-40 a night. What, those are for sketchy poor people doing illegal things? And Skid Row is somehow different? The point is, traveling isn't free - never really has been, and it never will be. If you can't afford to travel, then just don't. Justifying your illegal activity (skid row) with false information doesn't work. 

It's also simply untrue that the campground is "always full." I ride my mountain bike out there several times a week and I rarely see it completely full - and yes I've ridden through to verify empty spots. It sounds like you just need to plan/budget better. People complaining about spending $10 in gas because they have to drive from legal camping...gimme a break. You can either afford to travel or you can't. 

Look, man, I'm not against vagabonding...I do it myself (I have a camper I take boondocking all the time). It's just that there's a way to do it legally and in a way that doesn't infringe on other people - and I promise you the people who live in those houses across the street hate looking at the shit show out there. 

The cheapest I slept under a roof in Vegas was in a bunk bed in a shared room at a hostel. There are several in town. The worst one is more then $20 per person in shared room per night. Best one is $30 + for a bed shared room. Still waiting to know how I can get a decent hotel / motel for $35 all in.

Check-in Requirements:

• Guests must be 18 years of age or older.
• Sin City Hostel does not and will not accept Nevada Identification with an address within 180 miles of our location.
• I.D must be Government Issued and display place of residency;
  • Foreign Passport
  • U.S. Passport by itself WILL NOT be accepted as it does not display address or location of residence.
  • U.S. Passport will only be accepted WITH Out-of-State Driver's License or government ID
    • Travel stamps within 90 days of arrival date
    • Proof of departure from Las Vegas (Bus/ Plane tickets; proof of recent/future out-of-state lodging)
  • Out-of-State Government Issued Driver's License/ID will only be accepted along with the following;
    • Current & valid out-of-state student ID (along with proof of travel)
    • Proof of recent arrival or departure from Las Vegas (Bus/ Plane tickets)
    • Local event registration (convention badges/ event, concert or show tickets)
    • Proof of recent/ future out-of-state lodging, gas(petrol) receipts if traveling by car
    • Annual National Park Pass with a recent entry ticket
• Incidental/ Security Deposit;
  • $50.00 Credit/ Debit card deposit will be pre-authorized/ charged at check in.

EMFR, please post exactly which nice hotels near Vegas are $50 per night including all taxes and fees. And which are $30. Every hostel (4-8 people who don't know each other per room) in town charges more then $20-30 for one bed in a shared room. Maybe you mean 50 miles from Vegas? 

Which websites are you booking them on? I know that mid week is half or less then friday and saturday. You're staying mid week. Without any proof your claim is null and void "Yeah, man, your hotel finding game is apparently terrible. I'm a local, and I frequently (like monthly) do staycations for $50-60 a night in the nice hotels. I'm positive there are plenty of other off-strip hotels for $30-40 a night. " By nice you mean more then 2 star right? Name the names. I've shown that Luxor is not that price.

Diego Climberwrote:

The cheapest I slept under a roof in Vegas was in a bunk bed in a shared room at a hostel. There are several in town. The worst one is more then $20 per person in shared room per night. Best one is $30 + for a bed shared room. Still waiting to know how I can get a decent hotel / motel for $35 all in.

With 30 seconds of google, I found this for TONIGHT:

https://www.booking.com/hotel/us/wild-wild-west-gambling-hall.html?aid=304142;label=gen173nr-1FCAMY7wcoggI4oANIM1gEaJUCiAEBmAExuAEYyAEM2AEB6AEB-AECiAIBqAIEuALU8OuPBsACAdICJDQ3NWU0MDA5LWNiY2EtNGNmZS1iYTEyLTAxOWNlMGJjYWJmN9gCBeACAQ;sid=cd71c6258cc9b92577f22ef31349867c;all_sr_blocks=5971416_246074187_2_0_0;checkin=2022-02-02;checkout=2022-02-03;dest_id=20079110;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=1;group_children=0;hapos=1;highlighted_blocks=5971416_246074187_2_0_0;hpos=1;matching_block_id=5971416_246074187_2_0_0;nflt=pri%3D1%3Bht_id%3D205%3Bht_id%3D204;no_rooms=1;req_adults=1;req_children=0;room1=A;sb_price_type=total;sr_order=price;sr_pri_blocks=5971416_246074187_2_0_0__3500;srepoch=1643837644;srpvid=7ee39773d7ac0234;type=total;ucfs=1&#hotelTmpl

in case the link doesn't work, it's a Days Inn for $35 plus tax, no resort fees. 

You're welcome. 

You're right - weekends are more expensive...that's the cost of playing. Sounds like you can't or don't want to afford that. That's on you, man, but it still doesn't justify illegal camping. 

EMFR Iwrote:

Yeah, man, your hotel finding game is apparently terrible. I'm a local, and I frequently (like monthly) do staycations for $50-60 a night in the nice hotels. 

Tell us how and what are the "nice hotels"? 

And a Day's Inn is 2 star at best and not generally considered one of the "nice hotels".