THE LODGE: We have seven bedrooms and six bathrooms and a full service kitchen. There are microwaves and mini fridges in most of the rooms, outside barbeques, and a fire pit. As well the pans, plates, cups, silverware, dining room table with the incredible view, front and back porches and anything else we have. We've got propane, gas, water and most, if not all the necessities you'll need while staying with us. We've added substantial solar capacity and have air conditioning and heaters in all the bedrooms.
Our capacity in rooms is 19 people and 12 more in two Navajo hogans on the hill next to the lodge.
Weddings, family reunion, corporate retreat, seminar, workshop, anniversaries, reunions, we've done them all. Getting a little creative, we've had 33 people here for a week.
ACCOMMODATIONS: All the individual rooms have air conditioning, a shower, microwave, and mini fridge.
River Room: One queen bed-Washed with the serene colors of Lavenders and Blues, with a large picture window that creates a frame for you to look out at the beautiful Colorado River & Saddle Horn Butte.
Kayenta Room: Two twin beds-Decorated in the beautiful colors of a desert garden in bloom, with a comfortable porch where you can relax at the end of an action filled day and watch the Colorado River flow slowly by.
Southwest Room: One queen bed-Surrounded by the warm hews of the southwest, both inside and outside your room, along with a shaded porch where you can cool off after your days adventures while you look at the spectacular view of Dead Horse State Park.
Camel Room: Two twin beds- A Camel motif where, from your porch, you can watch the sun go down as it lights up the majestic red rock cliffs.
Family Room: Similar to the other rooms, but features two sets of bunk beds.
Hulk Hogan & Paul Hogan: Navajo constructed hogans above the lodge that sleep at least six each and looking down on the river.
FOOD: You'll need to bring food and whatever you want to drink. You can keep it in your mini fridge in your room or the main fridge or both and you can use anything we have to prepare it. You don't need to bring catsup and mustard and so forth. The guests before you and the ones before them left us unlimited supplies. I'd use Village Market just a few door south and on the same side of the street as McDonalds in Moab.
WATER: Our well provides showering and dishes. For drinking water we haul it in from town. Only drink the water we transport in. We have a water cooler in the kitchen and on the front porch. You are of course free to bring your own, but we have some if you prefer not.
ADDITIONAL AMENITIES:
We have a TV in the living room with satellite on the roof. It works about 95% of the time.
Phone: We have a Skype phone that works most of the time. Heavy cloud cover or a storm will sometime shut it down or delay the conversation. You can use our portable to drive to the top of Hurrah Pass where you'll get two bars and you can call out there. It's about a 15 minute jeep or ATV ride or an hour or so hike. Our phone number on Skype is 435-258-6264 and the cell phone is 435-260-1783.
Internet: We have WiFi.
RATES: Our rates work like this, we don't like to clean or make beds, so the longer you stay and we don't have to do those things, the less we charge. Having been asked this three times now, no, the rates never gets down to zero.
We do like to go ATV riding, hiking, climbing, watch incredible sunsets, tracking, fossils, rock hunting, wildlife viewing, ancient dwellings, rock art, jeeping, star gazing, kayaking, hang at the beach, swimming………so, we don't charge anything for those things.
Southwest and River rooms each have a queen bed in them and Kayenta and Camel rooms each have two single beds. All four rooms sleep two people. We can pack a roll a way bed in them if need be, but it's tight.
The Master bedroom sleeps two, and is huge. We could put a roll a way or two in there.
We also have a bunk bed room, with two bunk beds. Each has room for two to sleep on the bottom and one on the top.
We can get at least 17 people in beds if need be and I'll be happy to move out of my room and two more can go in there. I've slept in the garage, office, or hogans many times. No biggie.
There is room for at least six people in each of the hogans. 31 people are doable before we have to do tents and or sleep on couches.
Adventure Lodge, isn't just a name. We have ATVs, truck, jeep, and kayaks. Most of the year we have a beach, though the Colorado River makes the ultimate decision and doesn't consult with us. Hiking and or climbing for as many hours as you'd like, sightseeing, rock collecting, fossils, star gazing, wildlife, Indian dwelling, rock art, disc golf, a slow take a book day with our rock climbing expert and security tortoise Kobae, all part of the experience.
$175 per room for one night, don't do that please. At least two so we can begin to show you all the amazing stuff out here.
$150 per room per night, for two nights, where we'll get some of the things on the to do list accomplished.
$125 per room per night, for three nights or more, where we'll get at least some of nearly everything on the to do list visited.
$700 per room for a week and we should get most everything done or you can just hang out and relax.
$2,500 per room for the whole month for you poets, novel writers, photographers, painters, near nervous break down, preparing to go postal, need to get away types.
$5 per night, per person, for those staying in the hogans.
Email me with any questions at basecamp@letsplaysoccer.com
PETS: They are allowed. Bill was driving to Grand Junction one day and found a young female sheep dog on the side of I-70. He collected her up and took her to the Humane Society. Two weeks later he swung through to see if anybody had claimed ownership. No one had and Yeti was scheduled for a long sleep the following day. Bill, despite our "No Pets" policy at the time, adopted her and headed back to Moab and then Base Camp. It was raining hard that Wednesday night in February 2008 and as Bill climbed the east side of Hurrah Pass in the red Ford 350, he hit some mud and went off the cliff. When he awoke 35 feet down the side, Yeti was inside the cab standing on the inside of the roof, which was now the bottom of the upside down truck.
She found a way out through the cab back window, came back later to get Bill who had been injured. Though Bill was able to see very little in the pitch black of a canyon lands night, he could make out an all white Yeti. In the darkness of no lights, all rain, Yeti, led a barely conscious Bill back to the road, up the pass, down the other side, and six miles to the lodge.
In tribute to Yeti, who earlier in the day was saved from a dirt nap by Bill, and that evening returned the favor, we feel like dogs in particular, have earned the right to a fair hearing at Base Camp. So, don't let your dog screw up Bill and Yeti's near sacrifice.
Your dog will jump in the river, get muddy, try and get on the furniture, run through the lodge, chase the rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, and lizards, who have all become our friends. Keep them squared away, pick up after them, and keep an eye on them. There are lots of things in the canyon lands that wish to do them harm. I've seen an eagle trying to get off the ground with a large jackrabbit so your little 10 pound future owl droppings can quickly be a drive or fly through for foxes, hawks, vultures, eagles, bobcats and a variety of things we don't even know about yet. Any damage your FiFi does, we'll be expecting you to make it right.
