[BBMW]

I spent a week on the strip last month, at the Monte Carlo. No day cost me more than $100, including the resort fee. Most of the days (midweek) were much less than that.

Last year I stayed at Aria. That cost me, IIRC, $119 a day, also including the resort fee.

You can always find a cheap place to stay on the strip, and very often good prices on better places to stay. Those casinos have A LOT of rooms to fill.

If you go out of your way to pay a lot on the strip, you can. But you certainly don't need to. And pillaging the minibar at any hotel is always a stupid expensive move. Every store in Vegas, especially on the strip, sells liquor. But a liter of whatever hard liquor you like, for the cost of one mini-bottle, and keep it in your room.

Originally Posted by Datafeed

No way. I spend more per night in vegas at hotels than anywhere I have been save Manhattan....its not the list fees...its the other things that reach into your pocket.

get drunk and pillage the mini bar or the sex toys at hrc....it will be at least double the list rate.

when was the last time you were on the road and traveled?...the cosmo is like 470 a night for a basic room in the weekends...crazy.


Now, off strip properties can be a decent deal...

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by BBMW

I spent a week on the strip last month, at the Monte Carlo. No day cost me more than $100, including the resort fee. Most of the days (midweek) were much less than that.

Last year I stayed at Aria. That cost me, IIRC, $119 a day, also including the resort fee.

You can always find a cheap place to stay on the strip, and very often good prices on better places to stay. Those casinos have A LOT of rooms to fill.

If you go out of your way to pay a lot on the strip, you can. But you certainly don't need to. And pillaging the minibar at any hotel is always a stupid expensive move. Every store in Vegas, especially on the strip, sells liquor. But a liter of whatever hard liquor you like, for the cost of one mini-bottle, and keep it in your room.

And who pays $5 for a bottle of water? Go to Walgreens and buy a gallon for .99. Buy ONE bottle of water for $1.29 and refill it. You can spend just over $2 for enough water to last several days.

Vegas is CHEAP. Or it can be if done right. The first time I visited I got a deal for flight and 5 nights at a strip hotel for $405 total. By the end of my visit, I decided to start buying more stuff because I had spent so little money.

[Kitchen Witch]

Originally Posted by L'Artiste

So I am visiting a dying relative and the hotel is near The Strip, I have checked several hotels near by and they are all like $30-50 and sometimes maybe $100, is this normal? is it like a supply/demand thing (cheaper prices) or the hotels are terrible.. I would think in the summer the prices should be ridiculously high?

One ,I checked because my family stayed there once and liked (Circus Circus) is only $33 per night??

Summer is sort of like our {off} season because of the high heat levels, but come Labor Day, prices will become more expensive as the weather cools off a bit.

[Datafeed]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

And who pays $5 for a bottle of water? Go to Walgreens and buy a gallon for .99. Buy ONE bottle of water for $1.29 and refill it. You can spend just over $2 for enough water to last several days.

Vegas is CHEAP. Or it can be if done right. The first time I visited I got a deal for flight and 5 nights at a strip hotel for $405 total. By the end of my visit, I decided to start buying more stuff because I had spent so little money.

so at 0300 am when you stumble in from a night at the tables or the clubs with cotton mouth you are going to trek the down the hall, through the casino into the 102 night heat for another ten minutes to find a walgreens and lug a bottle of water back to your room to save a few bucks? or will you just hit the minibar or the hotel canteen?

It is not the list fees that get you, it is the other fees that are not published. .oh, by the time you do a slot or two when passing 20 million slot machines and grab a maragarita you really saved yourself some money...

vegas can be cheap if you stay on freemont and avoid the shows and the clubs--but then why are you in Vegas if you ain't a gambler.

You forget BBW, VEGAS exists to separate you from your money..it's the thesis of this place.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by Datafeed

so at 0300 am when you stumble in from a night at the tables of the clubs with cotton mouth you are going to trek the down the hall, through the casino into the 102 night heat for another ten minutes to find a walgreens and lug a bottle of water back to your room to save a few bucks? or will you just hit the minibar or the hotel canteen?

It is not the list fees that get you, it is the other fees that are not published. .oh, by the time you do a slot or two when passing 20 million slot machines and grab a maragarita you really saved yourself some money...

vegas can be cheap if you stay on freemont and avoid the shows and the clubs--but then why are you in Vegas if you ain't a gambler.

You forget BBW, VEGAS exists to separate you from your money..it's the thesis of this place.

Well, I would buy the water from Walgreens in advance. Plan. if I didn't have it, there is water from the TAP.

I don't gamble. There is too much else to do but waste my time and money doing that.

[vistas]

Watch out for motels or weekly stays east of the strip around Paradise. Super GHETTO.

[vistas]

Originally Posted by BBMW

And pillaging the minibar at any hotel is always a stupid expensive move. Every store in Vegas, especially on the strip, sells liquor.

LOL! But you gotta admit they look SO nice and sexy even at lower end hotels! When already drunk they are SO tempting! I wish I owned all of the minibars in Vegas.....................

[Cyborgt800]

The rates vary greatly even day to day depending on what's happening and where!

If you're checking rates shift the stay around a few days forward and back to see the change if any.

Of course weekdays are almost always cheaper.

[L'Artiste]

ok how about the palms or the hilton those are 78-100? can anyone recommend a hotel then? and resort fees? what if i dont plan to use the resort?

[Cyborgt800]

ok how about the palms or the hilton those are 78-100? can anyone recommend a hotel then? and resort fees? what if i dont plan to use the resort?

You can't escape the resort fee IMHO...they would have no way to monitor your usage....at least they really don't care to.

They want the fee.

Check out sites that list the rates of all of the hotels...sometimes you can get rates lower from them than the actual hotels advertised rates.

LV isn't exactly the best place to vacation if you're pinching pennies though...