A couple of months ago, the LA Times dedicated nearly their entire travel section to Las Vegas. The paper included the typical articles one would expect to find in a Vegas issue including my favorite Vegas topic: cheap deals.
Actually, the Times has three separate articles well worth exploring before your next trip. Las Vegas hotel deals you can dig, baby is the result of Times staff writers seeking out the best rooms for less than $200 a night. Sure, they tend to be off the strip, and perhaps a bit rundown, but they are cheap, baby!
More impressive but far grittier are those hotels spotlighted under the article, Lucky you; Rates from $39. I had no idea I could bed down for just $40 at the California Hotel and Casino on Ogden Ave. How many hands of blackjack do you think you have to win for the casino to comp your room? One?
Lastly, The best things in town are free (or almost) is rather self explanatory in its purpose. Did you know, for example, that you can get a foot-long hot dog for just 99 cents at the Riviera Casino? Or watch a free circus at Circus Circus or a free pirate show at Treasure Island?
Hmmm… it’s nice to cut corners and save some money, but at the end of the day I’m not sure that it is really worth it in Vegas anymore. I guess we just have to bank on the hope that we will win enough money to pay our way.
And that’s exactly what the casinos want us to think.