Hotels in Las Vegas

Las Vegas has the largest hotels in the world and some of the lowest headline room rates of any major city, because the room is not how most of these properties make their money. That produces a genuinely unusual market: a very large, well-equipped room in a landmark building for less than a modest hotel would cost elsewhere.

It also produces the resort fee — a mandatory nightly charge added by most large properties on top of the room rate, covering things like wifi and the pool whether you use them or not. It is the single biggest source of confusion about pricing here, and it means two hotels with the same nightly rate can cost noticeably different amounts.

Rates swing hard by day of the week and by event. Midweek is far cheaper than weekends, and a major convention or fight weekend can multiply prices across the whole city. The desert summer is brutally hot and correspondingly cheaper.