I spent just one night in this hostel. I arrived late in Vegas on a Saturday night and did not want to pay extortionate Vegas Saturday rates when i'd only be sleeping for a couple of hours.

The hostel is at the far north of the strip where the big hotels have ended and the wasteland begins although you are still under the shadow of the Strat (it has a very very long shadow). Not a great location but way better than all the other hostels i'd looked up.

The receptionist was friendly even at the late hour and the room was clean to the point of sterile (actually it smelled a little of chlorine/bleach). The place is an old 'motel' so the room i was in was accessed from outside (you have to go from reception, through the breakfast room and out the other side.) It was on the ground floor and had a disabled access bathroom.

I was in a 4 bed female dorm which consisted of 4 single beds, one against each wall of the room so we weren't all on top of each other. The hardest thing i found was the plastic on the matress as it is loud if you do move in the night and it does make you hot but at least it meant they are proactive in trying to protect themselves from bedbugs. There was also a door to another room - i vaguely remember someone passing through during the night - which i imagine to be the semi-private room. I don't think i would pay the extra for it.

The morning receptionist was also friendly. She called me a cab to my hotel and chatted to me about my travels while i ate my peanut butter and jam/jelly sandwich (am starting to realise this is the standard American hostel breakfast) and waited for the car. (There's also internet access at reception.)

I would definitely return again if i arrive in Vegas on a Saturday night. For the cost of a cab to the main part of the strip i slept in a clean safe bed for the night. It is most definitely not the area for solo female to be walking at night (or even in the day judging by some of the looks i got when i went to the shop - if people aren't used to cities they might get a little freaked) but the bus stops right outside and reception will call you a cab so you don't have to go anywhere alone.

They also offer tours and give info on free/cheap things to do in Vegas which i thought was a really nice touch for those arriving who don't have much planned.

The staff there is very friendly. The bedrooms as well as the bathrooms are large and clean! The drawback of this hostel is of course its location....quite a distance away from the strip!! But there is a bus stop right outside...3$ for one direction (7$ for a day pass).
I didn't have breakfast there...but i saw it, it only involved the most important things like toast..butter..jam..coffee with milk powder...
All in all it's a nice place and for what you get it is worth spending 16$ for one night!

To sum up my trip; I had the time of my life!

The staff here were awesome! The food was great, the scene was off the hook and my friends and I enjoyed every second of being there!

This Hostel is the worst thing ever that has happened in my traveling experience, and I am not exaggerating about this. I Just can’t understand how this hostel can still operate in Las Vegas under the guise for International friendship. I feel so sorry for those traveling from oversees, had booked rooms a few months ahead, arrived in the airport, took a taxi, and arrived to this hostel only to find how ripped off they were, can’t get a refund and don’t have anywhere else to go.
We were a group of four international students from ASU traveling to Las Vegas for our Summer 2010 holiddays; two men, two female. We arrived at the hostel and first were initially impressed with their low price and security. Their rate was 19.00 dollars per person to occupy a “semi-private room” that has two beds. They had quite a few surveillance cameras around which made it look safe, different to 2 previous motels that we had visited. So although the front desk girl, her name Mikaela, was very unfriendly as she just wanted us to pay up quickly, we decided to bare with her rudeness and get our rooms to rest from our 5 hour travel.
So we booked and payed 2 rooms for four people. We were escorted to our rooms, and immediately…we were shocked with what they were offering us: The “semi-private rooms”. The room was like a morge room or hospital room in one of the developing countries. The room was small and dingy. The two beds were small and rigid, still having the plastic cover. To reach this room, we had to pass a room that was occupied by six other travelers who were sleeping on bunk beds. This “semi-private room” was connected to a bathroom. The bathroom had two doors: the door from outside for the six travelers and the door from the “semi-private room”. And now…. what is not so private about the “semi-private room” is that there is no lock for the door that connects the room with the bathroom… meaning anybody from outside can enter our room via the door that connects it to the bathroom. So it’s funny how they gave us a key for the door of the room, when it is basically accessible for anybody to enter through the bathroom. And so you can understand how two of our female friends would feel uncomfortable especially when the tenants occupying the bunk beds who have access the bathroom were men.
We immediately asked for a refund, which the unfriendly front desk girl, arrogantly refused. She was basically telling us, “too late, you already paid, your going to have to stay in the room whether you like it or not.” This front desk lady took the advantage of me forgetting to ask to see the rooms before we checked in and she also didn’t offer to show the rooms to us. I was also under the impression that it would have been similar to a wonderful hostel that we had stayed in, The Hostelling International in San Diego. Hostelling International has bathrooms which you share with other tenants, however, it still maintains the privacy and security of the “Semi-private rooms”.
We left the hostel to motel Ecolounge, two buildings away from the this hostel. Now the Ecolounge is so nice and clean. Its total rate per room is 60 dollars including tax. The rooms are spacious and has two queen beds. If you wanted to, the rooms can fit 4 people making it cheaper (15 dollars per person). and more comfortable than this awful Sin City hostel.
I just reported the Sin City Hostel to my Bank for a transaction dispute. I am not going to let them take our money (80 bucks) for nothing. Even without all the issue of the “semi-private room”, the bottom line is: nobody should be paying for something that they don’t like and did not use - a simple rationale that the managers of the Sin City Hostel can’t understand.

Ali