Las Vegas Hotels

If there's one thing Vegas has a plethora of, it's discount hotels. You can find cheap Vegas hotels nearly anywhere, even up and down the strip. Even the nicest casinos, like Bellagio and the Mirage have cheap weeknight deals. And depending on what you consider inexpensive, you have a lot of choices when it comes to cheap hotels in Las Vegas.

Almost invariably, the further you branch off from the strip the cheaper the hotels get. With the exception of the Palms or Hard Rock Casino, everyone knows the place to be is the Las Vegas strip. Still, if you came over to Vegas for a business trip or to play some golf, you can stay at one of the cheap Las Vegas hotels throughout the city.

Super bargain hunters can stick to Las Vegas motels, or off-strip hotels such as Sam's Town, located well off the strip, but catering to those in search of super cheap hotels in Las Vegas. The Orleans is another off-strip hotel that prides itself in value and service, despite the low price to book a room.

The biggest collection of cheap Las Vegas hotels is located in the downtown area. Like most hotels not located on the strip, the downtown hotels are designed for middle-class travelers that are not impressed by the glittering lights of the strip, young budget travelers and those that are serious about gambling. A large percentage of all three of these demographics head to Binions Las Vegas, where the brick walls tell nothing of the fabled poker gods that once played there. The Fremont hotel is another one of the most popular cheap Las Vegas hotels located downtown, due to the famed Fremont Street Experience, one of the top things to do in the city.
At MGM Grand’s Skylofts, you’ll find a bathtub that fizzes with tiny champagne-like massage bubbles, TVs in the mirrors and airport pickup in a $400,000 car.

If you’re worried about your mortgage and your job, such luxuries might sound downright obscene. But Las Vegas has always specialized in turning fantasy into reality – for a price. Several Vegas hotels offer suites with futuristic amenities, audacious themes, enough room to hold a wedding along with the honeymoon, and pricetags to match.

There are suites with massage and film screening rooms, 24-hour butler service, pools that seem to hover above the ground, even see-through glass show showers.

Like Absolut Vodka? There’s a sweet suite at Caesars Palace themed after its various flavors, though Absolut Raspberri doesn’t flow from the faucets. There’s also a suite at The Venetian that has its own gym and more than 20 televisions, another at Caesars with a golf simulator so you can work on your swing between hands of blackjack.

Palms Place Hotel and Spa, which opened in 2008, has taken the upscale concept to a new level, offering luxury penthouses in a non-gambling hotel. Sure, the blackjack and pai gow poker tables are only a few steps away, down a walkway called the Skytube that connects to Palms Casino Resort. But the lobby of Palms Place is soothing and quiet in contrast to the usual bright lights and dinging slot machines.

“The idea that you can be still a part of the Palms and not be in the casino atmosphere has been a huge draw,” said Palms owner George Maloof. “Palms Place has an upscale feeling and is a place where you can just stay and order room service, but you’re also still close to everything.”

At MGM Grand’s Skylofts, you’ll find high-tech crossed with high-end service.

Airport pickup is in a Maybach 62. Butlers pack and unpack your suitcase (might want to be careful what you put in there). Remote controls operate everything from music to drapes. Need a jeweler to bring some ice to your room? The concierge can arrange it.
There are plenty of other Las Vegas hotels on the strip, each one offering about the same thing, but with different themes to catch your eye. Circus Circus doesn't really resemble its name, but it's a good deal and further away from the main crowds of the strip. The Stratosphere attempts to look futuristic, but in the quaint way that the imagined future looked to designers back in the 50s.
The Fremont Street Experience winds its way down its namesake street in downtown Vegas. Here you'll find a number of more subtle hotels in Las Vegas, like the Plaza, Binions and Golden Nugget. While quality here is more inconsistent, the casinos make millions of dollars on middle-aged tourists tired of the strip, and on budget travelers that still want an authentic Vegas experien
All in all, there are hundreds of Las Vegas hotels to choose from and all withing range of the popular things to do in Las Vegas, but mostly it comes down to location and price. The first thing most people ask when you return from Las Vegas is: "Where did you stay?" a far less depressing question that the usual follow-up: "Did you win?"
And no need to worry about missing “Mad Men” while brushing your teeth. There are antifog TVs in the mirrors. And the tub can be filled with tiny, ticklish bubbles.

“When you come to Las Vegas, you want to be in the middle of everything,” says Skylofts general manager David Federico. “Here at Skylofts, you have the essence of luxury, privacy and true elegance in the heart of Las Vegas, but you feel like you’re away from Las Vegas.”

Looking for themed luxury? The Palms is the place to be.

There’s the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, which is furnished about how you’d expect: sexy reds and whites, leather, artwork picked out by Hef himself and a rotating bed with mirrors on the ceiling.