Avoiding resort fees in Las Vegas

Travelling to Las Vegas on vacation can be hugely exciting, particularly when you consider the wide range of huge, glamorous resort hotels that you can choose to stay on and around the famous Las Vegas Strip. There are many huge resorts that line the strip, with hotels catering for every taste and preference. Whilst these resort hotels are huge and very exciting and unusual in many ways, the prices for accommodation are often pretty reasonable when you compare them to the cost of staying at some regular hotels.

The strip is lined with mostly 4 and 5 star resort hotels, so you can look forward to a little luxury and glamour when you stay here. However, one thing that some visitors do get caught out by when staying at some of these hotels is the extra charges known as resort fees, which can mount up to a tidy sum of money if you are there for a few days or more.

Resort fees are daily fees that are imposed by most hotels on the Strip for a number of services and facilities that are provided to guests during their stay. However, these facilities and services are ones that many believe should either be included in the upfront cost of the hotel or should be optional, so guests only have to pay for them if they use them. Some of the services and facilities that hotels cite as their reason for charging these fees include gym facilities, daily newspapers and internet access amongst other things. However, not everyone wants or needs these facilities and many believe that it is unfair that they have to pay an average of $20-$25 per night per room for the privilege of access to services and products they have no interest in.

Unfortunately, with the vast majority of hotels on the strip, you have to pay this fee whether you like it or not, which means that the total cost of your stay can be far higher than you originally anticipated if you are staying for a few days. Whilst some hotels will waive the fee if the customer protests enough, this is usually not the case and many customers feel embarrassed about kicking up a fuss and simply end up paying the fee even though they feel it is unjustified.

If you want to avoid paying these costly resort fees on your Las Vegas hotel stay, but you do not want to have to argue with hotel employees in order to get the resort fee waived, one thing you can do is to stay at one of the Caesar’s Entertainment Group properties. There are a number of different Caesar’s properties that line the strip, with something to suit every taste and a range of budgets. These hotels do what people believe all the other Strip hotels should be doing – they do not charge any mandatory resort fee and they allow guests to choose whether or not they want to use services such as internet and pay for them accordingly rather than being forced to pay for facilities that they may have no intention of using.

When you are comparing the prices of Strip hotels in Las Vegas, you should make sure you bear in mind the resort fees that are charged by the hotels, as although you may think you are getting a great deal, the accumulation of resort fees over the course of your stay can mean that the cost of your stay spirals. If you want to avoid this situation, booking one of the Caesar’s chain hotels means that the price you see is the price you pay, and you can add and pay for any extras you want – if you want them – once you are there. This enables you to budget far more effectively and means that there are no nasty surprises waiting for you when you get the bill at the end of your stay.Caesar’s Entertainment Group has plenty of excellent properties on the Las Vegas Strip. This includes casino resorts such as Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, the Paris Hotel Resort and Casino, The Flamingo, Harrah’s, Bally’s and of course Caesar’s Palace. These are all very centrally located resort hotels, which means that you get to enjoy staying in the thick of the action in one of a range of excellent resorts but without costly resort fees to worry about.