--- title: Sleep in a Parked Van with Views of Manhattan for $22 Per Night description: A night of luxury—in a New York City van—can be yours for just over $20 a night canonical: https://time.com/3972950/airbnb-rvs-manhatten/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-27T12:16:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:35.876Z og:title: Sleep in a Parked Van with Views of Manhattan for $22 Per Night og:description: A night of luxury—in a New York City van—can be yours for just over $20 a night og:url: https://time.com/3972950/airbnb-rvs-manhatten/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sleep in a Parked Van with Views of Manhattan for $22 Per Night twitter:description: A night of luxury—in a New York City van—can be yours for just over $20 a night twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Now You Can Hire RVs With Views of Manhattan on Airbnb by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jul 27, 2015 12:16 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jul 27, 2015 12:16 PM UTC A night of luxury—in a New York City van—can be yours for just over $20 a night. A local New Yorker is renting out parked vans and campers in Queens, directly across the East River from Manhattan, for rates as low as $22 a night on Airbnb, [DNAinfo](http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150721/long-island-city/sleep-parked-van-for-22-night-with-these-airbnb-listings) reports. One van is advertised for $39 per night and sleeps two “comfortably if cuddling or laying like pencils.” The van is advertised as being “Super spacious!” with “All brand new furnishings” and an “AMAZING view of the sky line.” According to the listing, it’s parked near The Mill, a coffee shop near a public playground’s restrooms, and already has [4.5 stars and 11 reviews](https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6492663?s=h4yk). Another van, slightly [less plush](https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/5104476), comes for $22 a night, and there’s even a [converted taxi cab](https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/7035403) for $69 a night. \[[DNAinfo](http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150721/long-island-city/sleep-parked-van-for-22-night-with-these-airbnb-listings)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3972950/airbnb-rvs-manhatten/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3972950/airbnb-rvs-manhatten/"},"headline":"Now You Can Hire RVs With Views of Manhattan on Airbnb","datePublished":"2015-07-27T12:16:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:35.876Z","description":"A night of luxury—in a New York City van—can be yours for just over $20 a night","url":"https://time.com/3972950/airbnb-rvs-manhatten/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Technology","Airbnb"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3972950/airbnb-rvs-manhatten/","name":"Now You Can Hire RVs With Views of Manhattan on Airbnb"}}]}] ```