Category: Austin Resources

Stay safe on a night out in Austin. Signs a drink was spiked, what to do right now, the city’s Sip Safely test strips, prevention, and 6th Street safety tips.

Austin is the Live Music Capital, so it is loud by design. The quiet hours, downtown venue rules, construction hours, how to complain to 311, and picking a quiet hotel.

Austin now forces unlicensed Airbnbs off the platforms. How to check a rental is licensed, the July 2026 rule, license types for hosts, occupancy limits, and taxes.

Rental scooters are everywhere in Austin, but you can get a DWI on one. Where you can ride, parking fines, helmet and age rules, and the no-ride zones.

Texas has permitless carry, but you cannot bring a gun into a bar with the red 51 percent sign. The rules for visitors, the ban signs, and where guns are banned.

Austin is not a walk-with-a-drink city. Where public drinking is banned, the plastic-not-glass rule, the special-event exception, open containers in cars, and last call.

Smashed rental window in Austin? The exact steps: photos, the police report and case number, the rental company, who pays for stolen items, and how to avoid it.

How to get from Austin-Bergstrom to downtown: the 1.25 dollar bus, Uber and Lyft pickup, taxis, whether you need a rental, and how to get back a lost item.

How downtown Austin parking really works: the Park ATX app and meter hours, when garages beat the street, exactly where cars get towed, and Rainey and 6th Street.

Austin toll roads are all cashless. Which roads are tolled, how the pay-by-mail bill works, the rental-car toll fee trap, and how to avoid tolls entirely.