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Adjacent to The Ranch at Death Valley and the Death Valley Visitor Center is the Fiddlers’ Campground, available for only $24 per night. With your nightly rental, guests enjoy the Ranch’s natural spring-fed swimming pool, shower facility, coin operated laundry and sports courts including a Tennis Court, Shuffleboard, Volleyball, Bocce Ball and Basketball Court. The Campground is located close to the Ranch’s restaurants, as well as the General Store for camping supplies, groceries and mementos to remember your journey. Furnace Creek Golf Course is directly adjacent to the Campground for those who want to golf the lowest elevation course in the world. (These sites do not have water, sewer or electrical hookups and are back-in only)
We stated at this oasis during our trip to Death Valley. We had excellent experience during our stay. It is incredible to see a real Oasis in person in the middle of the desert with so much green under blistering 120F temperatures.
Our family traveled with our friends and we had 4 kids in total. Front desk was able to accommodate our request to have 2 rooms next to each other, which was very nice. The room size was good, the only slight minus was a bit dated rooms and AC on a slightly weaker side, but still sufficient.
Every person we interacted with was genuinely super nice, polite and helpful. The ambiance and amenities were great. Location is close to many Death Valley view points and hikes. The oasis itself is located below sea level which is cool. The pool on premises in 95F heat at 10pm was such a treat!
If or better said when we come back to explore more of the Death Valley, this place would be on top of our list to stay.
After experiencing no power for two days, the team did not bother to try to reach our family reunion group of 15 with 4 rooms including an ADA room for our disabled father. After a long day traveling from all over the US , we arrived at the Ranch itself to be told they’d been out of power for two days. We had to sort alternate arrangements on arrival on Christmas afternoon. This meant driving another two hours to a different hotel. In addition, the restaurant at the Inn where we had made reservations for dinner for our large party on 12/25 and 12/26 had not bothered to call us either. Lastly, when I reached out after the whole ordeal to request a possible discount for a future stay (since it was meant to be family reunion after all) there was no response. Radio silence.
We stayed at the Ranch our first night and felt the rooms were amazing and well worth the price. What a stunning property with a lovely mesquite outdoor fire place, a well stocked grocery store for all your needs (wine and beer!) the pool area was gorgeous and well stocked with towels. My only negative was the service at the Saloon restaurant but I believe a lot of spots are struggling for help-and this spot is remote. It closed without warning and there were not many other options. Campers bring their food and drink and crowd the only outdoor fireplace which was a bummer and why we moved to the Inn for our remaining nights. The Inn was lovely and had a gorgeous indoor space for games and reading, an amazing reataurant with outstanding food and a pool with outdoor firepits and a cafe that sold prickly pear margaritas and house made chips and salsa! It was the perfect OASIS for our trip where we spent every day hiking and climbing and exploring. It was cold-but the pool and Inn was warm and welcoming!
Just went there the night before Christmas Eve. The hotel is beautiful, in their own words, a classic, antique structure, although modernized, and more in a western style, and of course, it's in the middle of the Valley.
And it happened that there was a huge power out that day, and the hotel was out of lights, elevators, heating, etc., for the whole day. This of course was out of their hands, but the response to the situation was well below decent.
The restaurant was closed and all they could offer us was a terrible Sandwich with ONE slice of turkey, a bag of chips and an orange (see picture) FOR $20 bucks!!! It was either that or go to bed hungry, or drive more than one hour to Pahrump, so we had to pay $20 for a $5 lunchbox. They didn't want to sell us a glass of wine because "it wasn't safe" with no lights. But people that brought their own got happily drunk.
We had reserved and paid for an additional bed but since there was no elevator, the person in charge didn't "feel safe" moving the fold-out bed one floor down. So three adults had to sleep in one King Size bed.
Long past are the times when things got done in the USA, now it's all "I'm not comfortable" and "I don't feel safe".
This is such a wonderful property location but unfortunately, we had a terrible experience with the service. We stayed at the Ranch at Oasis and had multiple problems. First, the restaurant at the Ranch lost our dinner reservation that was made in advance for New Years' Eve. This was a huge problem, because the Oasis is the only option in Death Valley and we were left with no place to eat dinner. Even worse, the staff at the Ranch were completely unhelpful. The restaurant refused to accommodate even a take out order to take back to our room, leaving us with zero options for dinner. The staff were were both unconcerned and rude about the missing reservation. We were lucky that the restaurant at the other property, the Inn, made every effort to accommodate us and we were able to eat dinner there. The pool at the Ranch property is amazing and spring-fed so very warm water. Unfortunately, there were no towels at the pool and when we used our room towels and called to request replacement towels for the bathroom, nothing was done. Finally, our toilet stopped working that evening and multiple calls to the front desk for assistance led to zero help. We might have been camping, except for the price. The food at the buffet was sub-par and that is being generous, with terrible service there too. Half the buffet items were out and no one was to be found on site that was monitoring the situation. Sadly, we would not recommend the Oasis (Ranch) at all. The Inn might be a better bet. Seemed like the service there was a lot better, at least at the restaurant. Also, I did email the manager and no one ever responded, further demonstrating the low standard for service at the Ranch.
