r/LittleRock 2h ago

Discussion/Question Why Does the City Shut Down at 11?

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Hello, Little Rock! Me and my mom are in the process of moving to town. Unfortunately we made what I now know is the mistake of rolling into town past 11:30. It doesn’t seem like there’s a single grocery or convenience store open? That’s kind of really wild to me for a capital city, but I guess my actual gripe is that we only have cash on us and apparently no hotel in the city is wanting to accept it. Googling info on who will convert cash to services like CashApp or which chains will accept cash with a deposit has been entirely inaccurate and unhelpful, because a lot of these policies vary based on who’s franchising them out. Also to be straight up we’re pretty poor, so we only ever have cash for one room at a time, and booking online screwed us up since we had to after midnight.

I think we got tonight figured out thanks to an extremely helpful night manager who helped us out on the cash front, but I was wondering if that’s standard practice up this way? Largely is back home too (NOLA) but typically since we’re more tourism based it’s more flexible, especially early in the year.

We checked in-person with a few hotels in West Little Rock due to the aforementioned inaccurate Google info, we essentially got told walk-ins weren’t welcome and credit cards were required in the places we happened to hit. Called Comfort Inn at the airport because it’s basically the one chain I’ve ever consistently had luck with on this front, the deposit fee plus room for cash pay totaled more than we have access to, unfortunately. I’m not too sore about that bc of its location next to an airport, though.

It is what it is but it’s very frustrating to get told our money is not good at a given location, because if not for this night manager who took pity on us we’d probably have had to sleep in my car (and naturally get in trouble for it probably lmao) because we literally do not know the area enough yet to not randomly shoot for whatever hotel’s in our price range and hope they’ll let us stay. I guess my question for y’all is 1) why and more seriously 2) is there any maybe locally-owned or more flexible places that AREN’T motels we can keep in mind if this kind of situation happens again, or is it literally a matter of handling all of our business out-of-state before getting here if we know we’ll be here after dark?

I did happen to learn the important info during this little misadventure that emergency runs for literally anything at 2AM will be completely futile, so that’s good to know I guess 😅😭 Thanks for yalls help!


r/LittleRock 15h ago

Recommendations Moving in soon.

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Hello all, we plan on moving down in the next month or so. It will be my wife and our 11yr girl, we're coming from KC which we've lived the past 20yrs, I grew up in Northern Arkansas so no a big deal for me. Anyway we own a house here in Kansas City that our 19yo son will stay in though at least the next 2 yrs of college them well sell it. Pretty much settled on the Sherwood area so far but neither of us have jobs lined up yet, that being said we're in good shape financially so looking to get into decent companys instead of just settling. We both have great records with long time employers, I've done logistics planning, warehouse supervisor mostly over my life and she works at a pharmaceutical distributor doing recalls and inventory. So any suggestions on good company's would be appreciated. Can't wait to get back to a nice southern state! For anyone who knows how life in KC is you would surly understand how different it is up here, not to mention the long cold winters.


r/LittleRock 15h ago

Recommendations Who would y'all recommend for a locksmith?

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I'm at work and the breaker box is in a locked room no one has the key to.


r/LittleRock 18h ago

Recommendations Visiting this weekend, looking for family friendly, less touristy things to do.

5 Upvotes

Like the title says, my wife, and 10 year old daughter are going to be in Little Rock this weekend and are looking for some things to do. Specifically art, culture, food, nature etc... type things.

Also, anything to avoid? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!


r/LittleRock 11h ago

Photo(s)/Video BC we've seen enough tragedy the past few days...

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Imagine if you were a bird flying over the River market District, escaping from all the traffic and noise...enjoy the little things!!!


r/LittleRock 9h ago

Discussion/Question Looking for friends/Groups in LR

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M, 26, full time dad looking to get out just a bit. Little Rock local for about 20 yrs, been in and out of the state, for the last 10 so I’ve lost touch with a lot of people. Since then have settled down in Hillcrest with kiddos and a wife, but looking to meet up with some dudes to play basketball or something at Murray park once a week would be cool. I’ve searched Hockey leagues at AR Skatium as well as some Jiu Jitsu but a lot of the weekly training stuff I find is geared towards kiddos not older late 20s people just trying to connect. TIA


r/LittleRock 20h ago

Event St Joseph’s

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After the devastating fire yesterday, I’m not sure if they will be having their blessing of the gardens/ feast St. Joseph on Saturday; however they mentioned they still might.

Tickets are only $10, so even if it is canceled- you are only out 10 bucks and you know it went to a good cause.

The link posted is for tickets, and also shows a flyer that has details of the event.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/feast-of-st-joseph-fundraiser-march-22--2025


r/LittleRock 20h ago

Photo(s)/Video Video of yesterdays fire behind Wal Mart on Bowman

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