Hey all

Thanks Rock and Chuck. Through Alaska I can get real cheap midweek rates at Las Vegas Club $23, $18, $18 Mon - Thu. How is the Vegas Club as a hotel? If I book through Allegiant, the Ceasars/Harrahs properties seem to have much more reasonable rates. Doing the math an a Sun - Fri trip averages out to $47 per night.

Phil

It isn't one of my favorites, but I still do kind of like LVC (for the hotel's value for the money) while some with refined taste in hotel rooms looking for something more impressive probably wouldn't be happy. I find it good enough I slept there three nights last week (slow week & cost me fourteen bucks - which is less than driving home & back) and if the rate happens to be good at a time that meets my needs I'd do so again. I give it a C+ considering the cost vs. room quality. These things are always partly a matter of personal taste and opinion, but that's mine.

It is a smallish hotel/casino and an older place of course, and their rooms could stand some upgrading and remodeling. Not anything major, just that they'd benefit from some sprucing up. The south tower is noticeably more overdue for that than the north. I would call the north tower standard rooms a little above IP, and the south tower rooms a little below IP in room quality, and for me it is worth a few bucks more for the north tower even though all I do with the room is crash & shower. If north tower isn't what you've booked, no sweat, they can usually let you take a look and decide to upgrade (or not) at check-in. Being relatively small (by Las Vegas standards) does tend to make dealing with the front desk and the check-in process pretty easy there in my experience.

Since you're booking through a third party near your arrival I'd strongly suggest calling the hotel direct to verify that your booking got transmitted as it should, including the dates of stay and rate details, and get the hotel's confirmation number. A booking agent's internally generated number will be no help at all if it hasn't gotten into the hotel's system, and stuff does happen, especially as more people are involved in passing the ball. Apologies if you already knew this, but with any hotel third party booking some folks don't bother to do that, needlessly opening themselves to being in an awkward spot where they are more likely to hear a tired traveler's least favorite thing at any front desk: "I'm sorry Sir, but I don't see any record of that." 97.5% of the time nothing like that would happen, but when you're standing there with your bags and the town is booked to the rooftops it's a beach to hit that double-zero. So, for everyone's benefit I sometimes become a little bit of a nagging Grandma like that.

It is easy to catch a cab from LVC if that is part of your plan. I always see them lined up near there waiting for the whistle and wave from the hotel's dude at the door, unlike some places that are almost all drive-in business.

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and they can probably get them FREE with a diamond card or for $17 at the IP, or at least 4 queens thru binions poker room for $24 a nite and $52 weekends.

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Its always cheaper to find a room directly with the casino or a flight directly with the airline, why people use expedia, kayak, priceline etc........... is something i can never understand. You can always find a great rate downtown Las Vegas.

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Hookem Horns

Not at all true IMO.

I always check pricing with both direct booking and through third parties. On my next trip to Vegas I am staying in two hotels, one I booked direct and one I booked through Expedia.

Exactly right. Which is better will vary greatly.

Many hotels will frequently wholesale blocks of rooms to third party discounters to reduce their inventory at slack times, while protecting their rack rate for those who will pay that much, or already have. And this is especially true in Las Vegas with a heavy proportion of independent leisure travel as opposed to government & corporate & expense account business. Last week I used a room for $14 which was four times that amount if booked directly from the hotel. Which is better will often be different from hotel to hotel and change over time. Sometimes the best deal can be a combination of both, by finding the best rate from a third party and using a hotel's price match policy for some ancillary benefits of a direct booking.

On many routes, booking an international flight direct with the airline is almost never a good idea, and will in many cases result in paying three to five times as much. By international agreement through the IATA airlines are not allowed to discount their international airfares below minimum cartel rates under threat of losing landing rights, but those rates would result in many of their planes flying almost empty. So, much of the available seat capacity is sold wholesale at the real market-clearing price to specialized travel agencies known as consolidators. For example, I have flown Los Angeles to Manila R/T for $535 through a consolidator's fare while seated next to a passenger who paid $2,300 from the airline. I had the better seat, and an actual prepaid ticket with a guaranteed seat selection rather than his paid "reservation" so if one of us was going to get involuntarily bumped it would have been that poor clueless bastard who bought from the airline.

The marketplace rewards information and those who take the trouble to thoroughly investigate their choices.

...a free sandwich for about $800. Go away, scumbag.

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I guess it depends what neck of the woods one is from. I have always found the best price directly with the casino or airline.

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It will be interesting to know the hotel rates next week.It depends upon the rush plus the hotel is of which grade is also important if it is 4 or 5 star hotel then the rates are not going to vary that much but for the local hotel it depend upon the customer.

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