Airfare to LV & Travelling Around LV

Hi all,

This will be my first time in Las Vegas.

1) If I use Priceline, I might be able to get a round-trip ticket out of St. Louis or Kansas City for about $250. Does anyone know of other airlines that offer cheaper flights. For some reason, I thought I could get a $99 deal or so to Vegas. I also thought of catching a ride with a trucker.

2) As you might be able to tell, I am on a really tight budget. It looks as thought the airport is only about 1 mile away from the Motel 6. Any free shuttles I can get on, perhaps, that will drop me near the Motel 6?

3) Motel 6's website says they offer $26 per night internet special. This sounds too good to be true. Any feedback? Any even cheaper options?

4) I'd like to avoid renting a car if at all possible. If I stay at this Motel 6, which I think is about a couple of miles from the Strip, can one walk to and fro the Motel 6 and also in and around the Strip (or perhaps rent a bike or scooter)? I am in reasonably good shape and a black belt in 17 different martial arts (just kidding about that part).

5) Where are good places for poor people like me to get a good buffet for a reasonable price?

If you are on a very limited budget, then I would recommend Vegas Club (near the Greyhound station) over Motel 6. While the rooms are not very expensive at Motel 6, you will find that it is much cheaper downtown to eat and drink (and possibly see a show). Allegiant Air is usually your best bet for a cheap airfare, but they fly only out of small airports like Owensboro Kentucky and Peoria Illinois which are probably near you. As the Greyhound is 34 hours from St Louis, you will find Allegiant comparable in overall cost.

You can take a public bus for $2 from the airport to the hotel.

Drinks are cheaper, the buffet at Main Street Casino or Fremont is the cheapest in the city (especially for lunch), and you can make bets for much smaller amounts of money, I think you will have a better time than at the Motel 6. You can buy a 24 hour pass to take the bus to the strip and see all of the casinos.

It is generally best to stay at a casino rather than any sort of budget motel. A casino might comp you for your room as you check out in return for your 'action' at the tables, but a motel never will. Also just about any casino offers far more in the way of diversions and freebies and cheap buffets, than a motel which at the most will offer a very skimpy breakfast.

Renting a car in Vegas seems strange to me, unless you have a particular need for one based upon some specific destination in or around Vegas. Most rental cars spend most of their time parked at casinos. Sometimes parking is a nuisance or requires validation and often tips to valet parkers. If you are going downtown, you don't need a car at all as you will be walking just about everywhere although at night some streets in downtown might be a bit dicey.

If you are going to the Strip area, the walks can get a bit long, but driving is often foolish considering traffic jams and mandated walks from parking garages to casinos. Utilize the various free shuttles in the Strip. As a tourist you probably will be looking around rather than paying attention to traffic as you drive and in Vegas you have to be attentive to your driving.

Its well away from the Strip, but a (mainly) locals casino such as SouthPoint offers its "non-view" rooms at 29.00 over the internet and often holds sales on its other rooms. Rooms there are generally large and clean, the casino is bright and businesslike, but if you go to SouthPoint you are pretty much going to stay there because there is not much else to do in the area and no way to go someplace without a rental car.

Places along the Boulder Strip such as SamsTown will be cheap but you will have only a few casinos and will have to take a shuttle or some other transportation to get to The Strip. SamsTown offers good bargains and would be particularly attractive for its unusual side bets at craps and its 10x odds.

Frontier Airlines ONE WAY Kansas City to Las Vegas May 23rd is 82.00 seven day advance purchase.
This was just a random result of a recent search.
You can also search for airline and hotel packages, but that means the hotel will not comp your room at all.

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4) I'd like to avoid renting a car if at all possible. If I stay at this Motel 6, which I think is about a couple of miles from the Strip, can one walk to and fro the Motel 6 and also in and around the Strip (or perhaps rent a bike or scooter)? I am in reasonably good shape.

Vegas has a fairly decent bus system, and plenty of cabs, so car rental is easily avoided.

I don't know about bike or scooter rental, but walking? You gotta remember: As much of a paradise as Vegas is, it's still in the middle of the desert.

I recommend Terrible's. They have a free shuttle from the airport, rooms run $20-$30 a night on weekdays, and it is nicer than a Motel 6. You can also go to the casino there if you want to, and they have cheap eats.

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You live there. You're used to it.

I wonder.

I've been to vegas in may only. It was warm, but not unbearably hot. I can assure you it gets a lot mroe unplesant in Mex City in the spring, and don't get me started on Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in August.

Anyway, in Vegas I can manage fairly long walks, like from IP to the Venetian, without more than a little perspiration. try the same in mex City in April and you're dripping buckets.

You can guess what follows, yes? It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Seriously. Low humidity means air that is better able to draw in moisture. That makes sweat evaporate much faster, better cooling you in the process. Vegas is as dry as the desert (imagine that), while place like Mex City and Reynosa are wetter than a greenhouse.

Anyway, if you get a bus pass for 3 days, that gives you unlimited rides on all buses. As far as I know there are buses running on every major street that intersects the Strip. That said, there are also some fair deals Downtown. Add $15 or so for a round trip airport shuttle and you can manage the rest just walking if you are content to stay Downtown. Lots to do there and cheaper than on the Strip.