Passenger pickup at McCarren Airport with class A motorhome

DO NOT get into the bus only or transit lanes, the cops will give you a ticket in Las Vegas. My wife saw several cars getting tickets for stopping in the wrong lanes.

My suggestion is also to go to the car rental site. You will want to check it out in advance (think really early in the morning - before 8 am? when it is just light enough to see around. Then go back when they arrive at the rental area. There is a "Tiny" parking area for private cars across from where the rental car counters are located, and where the bus drops off passengers. As I recall, it is about 40 parking places for small cars, nothing for a RV. By you can drive through the lane, stop for a minute, pick them up, and keep going.

They will just need to get their baggage, then take the shuttle bus to the rental counter. From bagage pickup, you cross the street to the shuttle pick up area. Then they drive you about 2 miles south to the rental car area. I would suggest checking it all out on Google.maps.com and then find the airport, rental car area, and then click to 'earth'. This will give you a overhead picture of the parking area, ect.

My wife made it to the hotel much faster than the rest of us. We went to the rental car area, then stood in line for 60 minutes, rented a car, went downstairs to pick one out (cars had the keys in them, you just get into the correct size and color of your pick). Then waited 45 more minutes to get out of the parking garage! What a PITA. . . She took a $12 per person shuttle bus with a wheelchair lift. It goes up the strip and stops at around 10 places, then our hotel on the south end of the strip. She boarded very close to the free shuttle to the rental car area.

Anyway I would avoid taking the RV to the airport. The car rental area will be OK. Just make sure they are there, or on the bus to there before you start into the parking area of the rental car, as you will not be allowed to park there with a class A.

Good luck,

Fred.

I just walked through it on Google Street Maps and noted that there is a 13'3" clearance on terminal 1. As long as you are under that and follow the bus lane, it looks like it would work. But don't trust me on this.

I didn't check terminal 3.

I had a similar question about a year ago with regards to Phoenix, Sky Harbor. The comments were all over the board but two comments were great, 1) use Google Maps and street view to do a virtual drive through and pay close attention to the clearance heights as you step through it and 2) call the airport and ask them.

I did both and determined that it would be no problem but I had to exit out the same way I came in. That's exactly what I did and it worked out fine.

The busses some people mentioned have proscribed routes and they know where not to go.

midnightsadie wrote:
I,d call and ask, each airport could be different.

As the last few posts here clearly indicate, various airports ARE different.

Some may even have height restrictions that a large MH won't clear.

You MUST get information specific to the airport you will be going to.

There is plenty of room to pickup in a class A at that airport but parking might not be available.

If you want a good look, Google maps has a good street view of the main ramp to the arrivals pickup area. Check it out!!

I,d call and ask, each airport could be different.

I was dropping off my sister at the San Francisco Airport with our old 28' Class C. We were instantly surrounded by cops and airport security, they insisted that I could not stop with a large vehicle anywhere near the airport due to the potential of carrying a bomb. While I was discussing this with the cop, my sister jumped out and said good by. JH :)

Downtheroad has it right, coaches and transit buses do airport drop offs all the time, so you must have somewhere you can sweep by to pick them up from. Get a map of the airport and ask them where passenger vehicles pick up.

Parking will certainly be a problem at the terminal...but to just swing in and pick-up someone can be done at "Arrivals."
Full size buses from city transit and from the big hotels do it all day long.

You will have to park and wait off site somewhere on a side street and use your cell phone to have your passenger call you when they are out front....then you can swing in and make the pick-up on the fly.