Do You Have a Favorite Hotel/Motel/Hostel?

[AlexKnoch]

When going through Nevada I always stop at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, which is right on the border of Arizona. They have double rooms for only $27/night and if you sign up for their player rewards, you have a chance to win a free buffet every day you're there which is, from experience, about 50/50. I've even won $50 free play which I was able to turn into a couple more nights.

I usually only get a room every few weeks so I can sleep in an actual bed, wash some clothes, and take advantage of their free breakfast but the Virgin River Casino always tends to draw me in for a few days or more every time.

What's your favorite spot to stay when on the road?

 

[Matt Derrick]

When going through Nevada I always stop at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, which is right on the border of Arizona. They have double rooms for only $27/night and if you sign up for their player rewards, you have a chance to win a free buffet every day you're there which is, from experience, about 50/50. I've even won $50 free play which I was able to turn into a couple more nights.

I usually only get a room every few weeks so I can sleep in an actual bed, wash some clothes, and take advantage of their free breakfast but the Virgin River Casino always tends to draw me in for a few days or more every time.

What's your favorite spot to stay when on the road?

@Daisy and I stayed there on our trip through that area last year, I was shocked how cheap the rooms were and it wasn't a total dive. I didn't know about the player rewards thing though.

other than that though, I liked the Everglades International Hostel in Florida. I've stayed there twice. I've heard you can work for stay there, but this was back in 2012 or so, so you might want to double check on that if you're interested.

the green tortoise hostel in seattle was pretty decent too, but again that was back 10+ years or more. it's been a long time since i've stayed at a hostel!

 

[Stacyrobby2316]

When going through Nevada I always stop at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, which is right on the border of Arizona. They have double rooms for only $27/night and if you sign up for their player rewards, you have a chance to win a free buffet every day you're there which is, from experience, about 50/50. I've even won $50 free play which I was able to turn into a couple more nights.

I usually only get a room every few weeks so I can sleep in an actual bed, wash some clothes, and take advantage of their free breakfast but the Virgin River Casino always tends to draw me in for a few days or more every time.

What's your favorite spot to stay when on the road?

Wow you sure it's still that cheap? When's the last time you had been there?

 

[Matt Derrick]

Wow you sure it's still that cheap? When's the last time you had been there?

I'm not the person you quoted, but as I mentioned in my post above yours:

@Daisy and I stayed there on our trip through that area last year

And I can attest, that yes, it's still that cheap.

 

[Daisy]

Candlewood Sweats, its cheap and very nice. At least it was when i was working in Hattiesburg MS

 

[Daisy]

They had a pool, gym, and a buffet breakfest and i think it was like $89 dollars a night. The room had a full ass kitchen and you could get blenders, crock pots and what not downstairs. its not the cheapest but its cheap for how much you get

 

[Daisy]

I'm not the person you quoted, but as I mentioned in my post above yours:


And I can attest, that yes, it's still that cheap.

yea that place was nice, it was seriously nice to get over that cold there. Theirs also just really cheap motels in Vegas. Ive seen shit as low as $20 a night

 

[Daisy]

When going through Nevada I always stop at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, which is right on the border of Arizona. They have double rooms for only $27/night and if you sign up for their player rewards, you have a chance to win a free buffet every day you're there which is, from experience, about 50/50. I've even won $50 free play which I was able to turn into a couple more nights.

I usually only get a room every few weeks so I can sleep in an actual bed, wash some clothes, and take advantage of their free breakfast but the Virgin River Casino always tends to draw me in for a few days or more every time.

What's your favorite spot to stay when on the road?

oops you literally mentioned the cheap rooms in Vegas lol

 

[Nomadicinquiries]

yea that place was nice, it was seriously nice to get over that cold there. Theirs also just really cheap motels in Vegas. Ive seen shit as low as $20 a night

Ya but the city tacks on like $50 in fees.

 

[transcendentalhobo]

Not to be That Poster, but back in 2003-'07 or so Hosteling was a very important aspect to how I Traveled. I feel like how much they seem to all cost in the US now has out paced inflation, and it isn't really as affordable as it was back then compared to things like Amtrak and Greyhound tickets, which are the sort of things I'll almost always spring for if I've got the cash.

That written, Portland Hawthorne Hostel was probably my favorite, and is still around. I did work trade as a janitor 15 hours/week for a spot in a co-ed dorm or a tent in an enclosed part of the yard and unlimited pancakes and coffee back in 2005-'07. It was pretty great. I cooked with Food Not Bombs a couple days a week, and also ate with them a few other days a week and got by okay for a couple months here and there over those years. But they don't have work trade anymore!

In 2004 I stayed at the Minneapolis International Hostel in the Whittier neighborhood. Once just for a couple nights in the dorm, but I got a good idea of what was going on in town, so I got eventually got it together to come back later in the year when they had an off season deal for a monthly rate for a bed in a dorm. I couldn't get it together in town, so I went back to Illinois at the end of my month, but I had a blast! It's my understanding they discontinued off season monthly rates, but maybe they brought it back, I have no idea. It was my second favorite hostel and had work trade options back then.

Roadrunner Hostel was in Tucson around 2006 also in the era of $20.00/night beds in dorm rooms. I stayed there for four nights when I crash landed there to do the Gem Show, unlimited waffles and coffee for breakfast came with the stay. It was still going as recently as 2011, but closed by '18.

 

[Tony G]

When going through Nevada I always stop at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, which is right on the border of Arizona. They have double rooms for only $27/night and if you sign up for their player rewards, you have a chance to win a free buffet every day you're there which is, from experience, about 50/50. I've even won $50 free play which I was able to turn into a couple more nights.

I usually only get a room every few weeks so I can sleep in an actual bed, wash some clothes, and take advantage of their free breakfast but the Virgin River Casino always tends to draw me in for a few days or more every time.

What's your favorite spot to stay when on the road?

when im in vegas i stay at circus got rooms for $18 a night

 

[transcendentalhobo]

when im in vegas i stay at circus got rooms for $18 a night

I've heard a lot of places to stay or eat are super cheap in Vegas since the money is really in the casinos. From what I understand a lot of the buffets that are cheap now were free in the 1980s and '90s, when some of the older peaceniks I know used to go out there to protest the nuclear test site. I blew through town a couple times when I first started Traveling back in 2000 and '02, but just to see it the first time, and to meet back up with a Road Dawg the second time. Both times I was dead broke!

But yeah, reading about an $18/night room almost makes me want to go to Vegas just to eat at a cheap buffet and see the sights again.

 

[Coywolf]

It used to be Hotel Hotel Seattle, but covid killed that small buisneas, like it killed every small buisness.

Orange Village Hostel in SF is awesome. $30/night for a bed. Free breakfast, cheap laundry (free soap!), a hangout room with TVs, games, instruments, etc. I always hit that place up if I want to go to the bay area and have the money.

 

[transcendentalhobo]

It used to be Hotel Hotel Seattle, but covid killed that small buisneas, like it killed every small buisness.

Orange Village Hostel in SF is awesome. $30/night for a bed. Free breakfast, cheap laundry (free soap!), a hangout room with TVs, games, instruments, etc. I always hit that place up if I want to go to the bay area and have the money.

That's great to know about the Orange Village Hostel! I've heard great things about the Green Tortoise Hostel (also in Seattle) but last time I checked the rates for a dorm bed in SF were about $49.99, probably plus tax.

 

[jerryx]

There's a men's only hotel in Chicago at LaSalle and van Buren. $400 per month.

 

[transcendentalhobo]

There's a men's only hotel in Chicago at LaSalle and van Buren. $400 per month.

Is it nice at all? I used to work at the Chicago International Hostel in Edgewater in 2003-'04. Dorm rooms were $20.00/night, every tenth night was free but it was sort of a dump, and it's long gone.

There used to be men's hotel in Uptown called The Wilson's Men's Club. It closed in 2019 but from what I understand it had bed bugs really bad, something I'd heard about the one hostel that I knew of in the South Side circa 2002-'03. It would be nice to know about something downtown!