Las Vegas Journals

Staying in Las Vegas

A July 2003 trip to Las Vegas by richryan76

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This is a friendly, clean hostel in Vegas. It's actually the only hostel in Vegas at the moment as the other one is shut for renovation. I think it was a motel once - the dorms are large and not overfilled with bunks and there's a pool ouside. The hostel will pay the cost of a taxi from the Greyhound station if you call in advance and ask for a pick-up. The taxi driver I spoke to insisted it was too close to make it worth getting into a taxi for. He was wrong, it's a fair few blocks away from the main part of Vegas and definitely not the friendliest part of town. I walked it every night without getting into trouble but weighed down with a rucksack I wished I'd forced the taxi driver to...Read More

Member Rating 2 out of 5 on August 3, 2003

USA Hostels Las Vegas
1322 Freemont Street
Las Vegas, Nevada
(702) 385-1150

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This is possibly the best budget deal in Las Vegas if you want to take in some of the huge shows but can't afford the pricey tickets. When you visit The Tropicana visit the promotions desk and ask for free membership. You'll get an electronic card that you put into the gaming machine every time you're feeding in coins. The way their deal works is that if you accumulate 30 minutes of play you get a free t-shirt. For an hour you get two free tickets to the glitzy afternoon magic show. Make it to two hours and you get two free tickets to the excellent Follie Bergeres show in the evening. That's well over $100 of free tickets. In addition to that, you get a percentage of the money you pu...Read More