The Hostelz.com Review
USA Hostels Las Vegas is out of the Strip and its casinos, but on the same street as the Freemont Street Experience and the oldest Las Vegas hotels/casinos.
Location
USA Hostel Las Vegas is pretty easy to find when arriving by car -- from the West, follow Charleston until 13th street and turn left onto Freemont Street. From the Eas, follow Charleston to 13th street and make a right turn onto Freemont Street. There is some parking available in the back, otherwise street parking on 13th and 14th streets.
Rooms and Bathrooms
This hostel is a converted motel and offers dorms as well as some private rooms for two to four persons. There is a swimming pool and a hot tub on premises. All dorms and rooms have ensuite bathroom, but it can only be used by one at a time as shower and WC are together.
Common Spaces
There is a well equipped kitchen and a small dining area. There is also a pizzeria next door if you don't want to cook. There is a pretty large lounge with a couch, a bar with few chairs, and a pool table. These are quite nice places to meet other fellow travelers, as are the swimming pool and hot tub.
The music plays loud until 10:30 p.m., when everyone disappears to the Strip and its casinos. There is a barbecue on Sunday. They have very friendly and helpful staff that will help you out with car rental, flights, and your next overnight stop. They have four computers for cheap internet access.
Summary
This hostel remains pretty anonymous -- it's really good value including "all you can cook" pancakes breakfast. We'll probably stay here again next time.
Location
USA Hostel Las Vegas is pretty easy to find when arriving by car -- from the West, follow Charleston until 13th street and turn left onto Freemont Street. From the Eas, follow Charleston to 13th street and make a right turn onto Freemont Street. There is some parking available in the back, otherwise street parking on 13th and 14th streets.
Rooms and Bathrooms
This hostel is a converted motel and offers dorms as well as some private rooms for two to four persons. There is a swimming pool and a hot tub on premises. All dorms and rooms have ensuite bathroom, but it can only be used by one at a time as shower and WC are together.
Common Spaces
There is a well equipped kitchen and a small dining area. There is also a pizzeria next door if you don't want to cook. There is a pretty large lounge with a couch, a bar with few chairs, and a pool table. These are quite nice places to meet other fellow travelers, as are the swimming pool and hot tub.
The music plays loud until 10:30 p.m., when everyone disappears to the Strip and its casinos. There is a barbecue on Sunday. They have very friendly and helpful staff that will help you out with car rental, flights, and your next overnight stop. They have four computers for cheap internet access.
Summary
This hostel remains pretty anonymous -- it's really good value including "all you can cook" pancakes breakfast. We'll probably stay here again next time.
— Exclusive Hostelz.com Review
June 2009
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DO NOT GO HERE! This is the worst hostel I have ever stayed in, in my entire life!! Aside from it being in the slums if LV (which is really out of the hostels control and doesn't really matter to me) It was terrible. I booked a private room which was described as "bright and clean" but in reality it was dim and dirty. There were cockroaches on the floor, random hairs everywhere, our T.V. did not work, and our refrigerator froze everything we put in it. We complained about these things on our first night and they were NEVER FIXED. On top of our room being bad, the pool is filthy and the hot tub isn't even hot it is just a mini-pool with green water in it. The staff here SUCKS! They are no help at all, don't bother complaining to them they will just call you liars and dismiss you. MONIKA the manager at the time was a total and complete jerk. I really have super low standards and this hostel couldn't even meet those. It was terrible I will never return here again. — Gabby and Debbie , USA (2011-06-01) Do not go here this place is an absolute disgrace and very scary. we couldn't even go to get milk in the morning without being attacked by bums. we had stayed at the sister hostel in san francisco and loved it, so thought this would be similar. nothing in common. everything is out of service, no guests there, a couple miles to the strip and very dangerous area. if you are girls traveling, avoid this hostel. — sarah , norway (2011-04-29) Great fun, even if it is in downtown! Traveling to Vegas by myself, I decided to be nontraditional and stay in a hostel -- and it was well worth it! The hostel is really nice with a pool and hot tub. Rooms are spacious and en-suite. The location is a little sketchy, in downtown Vegas, but there is good food next door and a 7/11 down the street for basic needs. If going to the strip, I suggest grabbing roommates and taking a taxi -- the Ace bus is RIDICULOUSLY slow. The hostel organized events are GREAT -- I did the limo club crawl and it was AMAZING!! I was there over Easter and they had an Easter egg hunt which was lots of fun. The hostel also helped me book a Grand Canyon Tour. The fact is -- if you're going to Vegas with friends, there are plenty of cheap hotels that you should really stay in. But if you're alone, and you want to make friends, I can't think of a better place to stay than this hostel. It's not perfect, but it's got charm. — captainwinter364 , Canada (2010-05-26) Waste of your money I booked this through a hotel booking website. They screw up reservation by reserving it for only 2 people (I had 4) & indicating price for juts 1 person. Price is per person not per room. Same approach used for hotel rooms don't work for hostels. So, if you really want to go here (which I don't recommend) book directly through their own website. If there are 2 or more people its better to stay in a hotel (even on Las Vegas Strip) for the same price. We ended up paying $100+ for 4 people per night. Wish I spend same money on a hotel in Strip. Most hotels have unfilled room that you can just walk-in (this was my 1st time, so I didn't realized before hand). Room was ok but not that good. Neither the bath room. Bed covers were not clean & too much of use. So many funny rules; no food, no tub use. Has a kitchen, but all utensils are useless. Too far away from all the fun. Spend your hard earned money on somewhere else. — Dil , USA (2010-03-16) Bad hood, strange rules, rude staff, avoid! I made a last minute trip to Vegas when I lived in San Diego and thought I'd try this place out. Made a reservation on their HIGHLY DECEPTIVE website. Well 1st of all it is in the most scuzzy, crack head infested, bum hood in most of LV. THEN THEY WOULDN'T ALLOW ME TO STAY BECAUSE I HAD NO PASSPORT ??? I'M USA CITIZEN AND CAN'T STAY AT STUPID USA HOSTEL?? They were of NO help where to go so I walked to a nearby dodgy looking casino and got blasted off their cheap booze and actually stayed there for 20 bucks. The next day I walked to another hotel and got a room for 2 more days just walking up for $24.99 a night. AVOID this rude dump and stay in a clean PRIVATE ROOM. Even if you're a group you can get two beds and fit 4 people in a room. And have your own bathroom and no hassles. Maybe it's OK with a large group but if your single and especially female stay away! — Chuck F , USA (2009-12-21) Great! everything about this hostel is great. The staff are friendly, it's secure, crowd is good, and the place is really clean! Also have a TV room, swimming pool, pool table. I would highly recommend this place for any travelers. — Prudence , Australian (2008-07-28) This place is in an absolute sh*t of an area. i've stayed here three times spanning from '99 to '02. When i first went there it was a good, cheap place to stay where the owners ran the place, not belligerent, transient arseholes like the last time i stayed. I was told it was once a motel and as it had just opened, they offered us a few hours work a day for our accommodation. This work included assembling bunk beds and converting the once motel rooms into dorms. Part of that job was removing the existing fixtures such as the bed heads that were secured to the walls. Once we removed these, used condoms and syringes dropped to the floor, the mattresses were slashed to hide drugs. This is proof that the area it is situated in is bad. I saw crack dealers arrested everyday i was there, just look out your window. Two guests were mugged by the local oxygen thieves and on my third stay, the staff were nothing more than blow-ins that were insolent and carried sh*tty attitudes they had no right to have. I realise it has been a while since i was last there but it seems nothing has changed. Do yourselves a favour, get a couple of mates together and stay in a strip hotel. — Mr T , Australia (2007-04-24) Well the hostel its self is fairly nice and has your own bathroom and breakfast is free which is always cool. There is a pool but you will only use it if you choose not to see las vegas, which would be a bit stupid since you traveled all that way. you cannot do both because the hostel is out of the way which requires you to take a twenty-minute walk to the bus that takes thirty to forty minutes to get in the heart of the strip. this journey does start off in the scenic area which have chosen to call crack town. if you have never seen a deal go down look out of the window in case you choose score some in the future! this is a dodgy area, i admit nothing happened to me but i was always with two other people, but would not walk this at night by myself. the staff were just rubbish! really rude and couldnt care less and were also very arrogant with it. if you like really loud music while trying to sleep it's fine (which is being played by a stoned guy behind the desk who will tell you to get used to it). the guy behind the front desk is such a tool. — Lord Wilfrington (2007-03-05) I wish I'd read these comments before going to this hostel. Plus points -- it's clean and the rooms have their own bathrooms. The kitchen is ok and the free pancakes in the morning are a bonus. These are about the only good things that could be said. It's in an absolutely awful area, there were drug deals going on outside my bedroom window. In fairness I never had any trouble, but it doesn't feel safe at all. The staff are incompetent at best, at worst they're plain offensive. The guy with the black hair who wears sunglasses is an absolute weapon, constantly starting arguments with guests. He had a black eye when I was there, congratulations to whoever gave him that. Theres no management to speak of, just what appears to be long term guests running the place. Either check out the Sin City hostel or go in a hotel on the strip, if you stay during the week it will be almost as cheap. — Tom (2007-02-26) Don't stay here! Staff are rude and uninterested. Location -- well, you get to see what happens when you lose in the casinos, and if you want drugs you're probably in the right area if you don't get stabbed first. Pay the extra -- be closer to the strip and safety. — crikey (2006-12-26) Don't bother staying here. It's in the rough part of Las Vegas away from all the fun stuff to see and do. Hotels are so cheap in Vegas it's not worth staying in a hostel. Get a room in one of the huge hotels on the strip for the same price as two dorm beds. It's too far (and too hot) to walk to the strip and the bus service is really unreliable. You''ll probably pass out in the heat just waiting for the bus! If you stay here, you'll end up lazing around by the pool all day because of the location, which is a shame because there are $1 beers, cheap meals, and free shows to be had on the strip if you could only get to it! The only things this place has got going for it are the free pancakes and the pool but they're not worth risking your safety for. — liz (2006-12-06) Very disappointed. It is located in the downtown, in a neighborhood with a lot of motels. The neighborhood is very bad, don't walk there alone, especially by night! I saw a lot of police cars arresting people during my trip. Not what I expected from Vegas. It is not next to the casinos (the Strip). You have to take the unreliable buses or a cab to go to the casinos (fifteen minutes). Staff is quite nice. Is it proper? I would say yes, but some friends got a dirty restroom. If you are lucky. About entertainment -- the swimming pool wasn't a great as I could imagine but there's great billiards and some events are organized. However, you can do some free pancakes for breakfast, all is here for. If you go to Vegas, try to get a room in a big hotel. — Anonymous (2006-11-30) Location was terrible, miles away from anything remotely interesting. The public transport to get to this place was unreliable at best and as for walking, don't even try it, the heat will finish you off in a very short space of time. The area was full of weirdos, especially the local shop which is quite possibly the scariest grocery shop i have ever visited. The rooms were ok but nothing special. If you get together with another person you can stay in a motel/hotel in a much better location and be a lot less afraid. — Matt the wise (2006-11-26) Whatever you do dont stay at this hostel! You can get the same if not better deal at a place on the strip. They make it seem that this hostel is close to the strip but its not! Its a thirty-minute walk to the bus then a very slow hour ride in traffic to any of the good places on the strip. and if you're going at night forget it! this is one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in U.S.A. -- even our taxi drivers were asking us if we are crazy and did we know how dangerous it is around here. on three occasions i saw police at the hostel while a hosteller was reporting a wallet stolen or being mugged. twice i saw crazy drug addicts getting arrested across the street. As well as inside the hostel two different people told me about their things being stolen and after video surveillance showed it in one case the staff would do nothing to help the hosteller. As for some of the staff they are the rudest people i have ever met -- i was yelled at to shut the F*&#K up while on a tour that i paid for! and also was told to go to my **** ing room. Everytime i went to ask questions to the staff i was made to feel stupid for asking them. From what i hear the hostel used to be amazing but as the ownership has just changed in the last few weeks. it's gone down hill -- all the good staff were quitting and being fired while i was there. I know it sounds nice with the pool and hot tub and free bbq but they have those because once people see where they are they are afraid to leave. you can have a pool at any of the places on the strip for the same price! not to mention the rooms were dirty, we had cockroaches constanly in our room. This was the last stop on my trip and it totally ruined my vegas experience. dont be intimidated by the big name hotels -- during the weekdays they are almost the same price once you count the cost of your taxi to and from the hostel, plus it's not worth the trouble of being mugged or worse. — globetrottingurl (2006-10-08) Rooms are so cheap in Las Vegas that if you are with someone, it is cheaper to rent a hotel or motel (with all their amenities). Many of the travelers seem to hang around partying there all night, missing out on the great nightlife on the strip. It used to be good for me when I traveled alone, especially when rates were high elsewhere during conventions. I made great friends with the staff. But all that has changed when the staff changed. After making a reservation, I was denied lodging for the first time (and by a very rude manager) because they said they were now enforcing "foreign travel only" passports. Despite that the room charge later appeared on my credit card (which card number they required for reservation but said it would never be charged) requiring me to complain to the credit card company to reverse. In Las Vegas, stick with a hotel or motel. — Hiram (2006-06-11)