Being concern about gas prices and lodging prices around Study Butte and proximity area, I found rather good and fair pricing of some private and or other company type places to stay within budget. But it takes advance booking with reservations and multi people to bring the price down. Example : bunk house type lodging at Terlingua Ranch and Terlingua township. Private residents of terlingua built or for lodging. Most are of at least several nights and more for pricing. Some have multi bedrooms, full kitchens, patios with grills, baths, tucked away for privacy. Some can sleep up to 6 or more people. Some has SPECIALS on what they call off season rates of for 2 nights rent-get 2 nights free in late Aug. and early Sept. and that happens to be when some of us are down doing our herp thing anyway. Yes there are some heavy deposits on these places that will refund all or portions for use. Range can be from $160 to $200 per night but divide that for a really nice and furnished place among several people..........I just don't know how they would take us herpers knowing that there still is that stigma of us down there among some locals. I guess though what they don't know can't hurt.
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Alternative lodging while in west Texas
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I mean, is this movie thing a done deal? Are the rooms already reserved just cause the want to make a "B" movie?
What about all the usual places in the studdy butte area?
Easter Egg
Longhorn
etc...
Thanks for your time,
Steven Owens
whether it was a ploy to get me to make a reservation or not, in so many words, they were booking supposedly while talking. But whether or not, it is the price hike as they all said. I have seen it before and if you talk to Louise at Wild horse. It logical that with the inflated gas prices and definitely effecting tourism, she went up I think 2 times in the last 2 years. It's MAYBE fine as far as finding a place to stay. But I normally have booked rooms in 2 months ahead just in case. By me hearing of the motel increase farther down the south and that steadily over $3 a gallon, I determined that price wise it was more feasible to stay in Alpine as we have before and cut the gas price as well as the motel cost by filling up every night in Alpine and unless dire emergency, and not have to buy gas down in the bend region. After trying 5 out of 7 motels in Alpine, that was when I was told they were booked. For how long ? I don't know. Some of this though could be me and my anxiety by not going last year. First time of skipping a year for a decade ! LOL !
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We stayed at the Easter Egg 2 weeks ago. No reservation in advance. Rooms were $60 with TV and $48 without. The TV had 5or 6 channels. No weather channel.
last year, pulled my Dad's trailer down to Alpine - 10 days, south of alpine, walking distance from the big cut . . . $160, total!
Hope to do the same this July . . .
Troy
staying of the Double Diamond RV park ? I checked the Big Bend Travel RV park where the La Kiva is and totally forgot the price for RV and or tent with and without elec. hookup. Another possibility.
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That alterna-tive is looking better every year!
Todd Hughes
I have no plans for the river road this year, but does anyone ever stay in Presidio? It is only 50 miles from there to Lajitas and you can hunt the whole way.
There is at least one motel there. Or you could stay in Ojinaga, and really save a few bucks!
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas
This is a little known secret, ...Presidio. 
I have stayed here before at a little motel near the border patrol station,.can't quite rememember the name,...something like Three palms Motel I think. Staying in Presidio allows you to hunt the river road without the sun being in your eyes and also allows you to hunt the hoodoos and Colorado Canyon at a decent time of the evening when some herps that may be on your list start to come out. I think this is actually a closer location to stay than Terlingua, and GOD knows staying in Lajitas is out of the question now. There is also less traffic and as you said, you can hunt all the way. You can also hunt the other end of 170 this way (toward Candeleria). Try it out sometime.
Wayne
while at $45 per night and affordable, it's a might drive to get back to 118 Xmas if you desire to or you burn out on RR. And I think you are wrong in distance of the PRIME River Road area from Terlingua. Meaning almost all of us including talking to you of past normally make that turn around at the windmill. Have you actually drove some piece up toward Ruidosa and Candelaria ? Or ANYBODY ? How far do you go to get back into what would be prime hunting area ? I heard you had better be darn careful going up there or have 2 vehicles making that trip. The few that I heard of staying in Presidio said you had better unload everything and anything of value from your vehicle while staying there even at the 3 Palms.
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I was of course joking about the "secret" part, hence the smiley face. What I was speaking about being centrally located so to speak is you could hunt toward candelaria or go back toward Lajitas. There are plenty of snakes toward Candeleria (not necessarily alterna) but it's still fun hunting that way. We had no problems when staying at the Three Palms. Since I have never caught a river road alterna, who the hell's gonna listen to my input anyway?
Wayne
