5 worst cheap hotels on Las Vegas Strip

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What a terrible review. That guy has no idea.

#5: Excalibur:
All rooms renovated, always clean. Complaints about the ridiculous line?????? Did he ever put foot in another strip hotel and see the lines???

#4: Hooters:
Strip hotel??

Quote: wernerw

#4: Hooters:
Strip hotel??

If Rio and Palms are strip casinos (and they are according to Gaming) then Hooters certainly is. It's just across the street from MGM's lobby entrance.

After El Cortez bought that parking lot across the street, they advertised it as their new Las Vegas Blvd entrance.
Nugget calls itself a Strip Resort.
I'd say Hooters isn't much farther off the strip than Caesars or Mandalay.

If we define the Strip as facing Las Vegas Blvd and confining it to the Mandalay Bay to the SLS (one could argue it should include everything from the M to Jerry's Nugget), then my list would be:

1. Circus Circus
2. Casino Royale
3. Excalibur
4. Flamingo
5. Harrah's

Quote: Wizard

If we define the Strip as facing Las Vegas Blvd and confining it to the Mandalay Bay to the SLS (one could argue it should include everything from the M to Jerry's Nugget), then my list would be:

1. Circus Circus
2. Casino Royale
3. Excalibur
4. Flamingo
5. Harrah's

Not defending them as being better than others, but Caesars is in the process of upgrading both Flamingo & Harrah's. Granted they are not on my list of places to stay but a tourist on a budget or a small slot player will find a clean room at a good price in these 2 casinos. Even with ripoff resort fees figured in, you can get a room mid strip for less than $60 on a weeknight, which is impossible in almost every city in America. And anyone with even a little slot play can get comped easily there.

From TA reviews, I also think Luxor needs to be in the running for 5 worst.

Worst is pretty relative. Flamingos and Harrahs may be the worst on the strip, but are a better value than anything in walking distance of Times Square or Fishermans Wharf.
I'd put Hooters, Trip and Casino Royale on the list, as well as Excaliber. I imagine Circus Circus would round out the top five.

Quote: billryan

Worst is pretty relative. Flamingos and Harrahs may be the worst on the strip, but are a better value than anything in walking distance of Times Square or Fishermans Wharf.
I'd put Hooters, Trip and Casino Royale on the list, as well as Excaliber. I imagine Circus Circus would round out the top five.

does Trip = Trop? Guessing.

I have very few complaints about Harrah's. Surprised they made anybody's bottom 5.

My list would be CircusCircus, Excalibur, Luxor, Flamingo, and IP /Quad, the last 2 from years ago, so i might be wrong about current conditions on those.

Quote: Boz

... Caesars is in the process of upgrading both Flamingo & Harrah's ...

Let's not forget that Imperial Palace would have easily made that list, but Linq is a fairly nice place.

I'm definitely a hotel snob but harrahs has a new renovated tower that I was in the other night that was just renovated and completely on par with treasure island or the Cromwell,
Also the mirage changed the 12th floor to the stay well floor
If you have allergies or prefe clean air I was stay on that floor in a heartbeat. All new lighting and air purifiers everywhere with extra Sanatized rooms

I agree that Harrah's used to be worthy of the bottom five list but they've done renovations and the place seems a notch classier. I hope the Flamingo is next on their renovation list. From what I'm reading in the gambling newsletters, Caesars is close to coming out of bankruptcy soon and looking financially very strong.

Quote: Wizard

I agree that Harrah's used to be worthy of the bottom five list but they've done renovations and the place seems a notch classier. I hope the Flamingo is next on their renovation list. From what I'm reading in the gambling newsletters, Caesars is close to coming out of bankruptcy soon and looking financially very strong.

Considering they are willing to sell anything out for a buck, their future seems much better than it did a few years ago.

http://www.ktnv.com/news/iconic-feature-on-strip-temporarily-replaced-with-store

Up next..."Google Palace- A Caesars Casino"

Quote: Boz

Even with ripoff resort fees figured in, you can get a room mid strip for less than $60 on a weeknight, which is impossible in almost every city in America.

"Almost" may not include the deep South. I know from gaming newsletters that (at least some) casinos in the Tunica area often have specials for less than $60 on a weeknight. A check of Biloxi casinos shows 4 with mid-week rates between $62 and $65, with no reference to needing a player card. (I admit, also no reference to resort fees, which may not be included in this pricing, possibly resulting in a somewhat higher cost.)

However, "stuff" costs less in much of the deep South, including minimum bets on most table games and parking. Also, to my knowledge no casinos deny a thirsty gambler a free adult beverage of her/his choice, unlike some in Vegas where free alcohol requires certain levels of play. (What are the greedy LV casinos thinking??)

My meager play consistently gets me offers for free rooms in Tunica. You can slip a $5 in a bar top and drink all night. I'm not even sure you need the $5. Just sit at a bar top and you are offered drinks. While Tunica has gotten tighter with their comps the last couple of years they are still a low rollers paradise.

A $60/night fake quoted room rate at Flamingo LV is going to mean you will actually get charged about $95/night, plus tax taking it over $110/night, with the ludicrous added junk fees that will be tacked on to your folio for most people who are not certified gambling tweaker degens with a "Diamond" or "7-Stars" card. And that's IF you don't park your car, or get an internet connection that actually sorta works part of the time, or, or, or.... Over the last three years I've spent well over 200 nights in hotels at major cities across the US. I haven't paid that much per night for any of them, not once, and all were far superior accommodations in much better condition compared to what some poor sap who doesn't know any better and doesn't know how to book will be getting at the FODD (Flaming-O Douchebag Dormitory).

I could take you on a tour there right now and point to dozens of things that were broken/trashed years ago that are still that way. Basic things that should be highly relevant to anyone marketing any sort of business on the property to the public. Things that would have led me to get angry as all Hell and fire a site manager with my foot up his ass on his way out the door if I found them being treated as less than an emergency at any of the properties I was responsible for in my past working life, many of which were low-income inner-city housing. It doesn't belong on this list because it isn't cheap. Just bad, without anything close to the full appropriate cheap rate discount for the poor quality, or any the compensating "old-dive-bar" type atmosphere that some people found charming in an "authentic scruffy joint" low-rent way (sometimes including me when in a grungy mood) with the old crumbling IP dump, before it got all Quadrified and Linqued and whatever.

I haven't been aware of anything that would bother me about Harrah's LV, speaking strictly of the hotel accommodations (I don't much care for what the casino has to offer, or the food). I can only guess that maybe there's a major difference between rooms in the two towers, and perhaps I always got put in the good one because I had one of those tweaker-degen cards with the company. I'd have no problem staying there again, if comped or discounted enough to fully compensate for the current hyper-inflated Strip "resort" crap-fees hose-job. But I'd need to be offered a rate significantly less than zero to sleep with HLV's cousin, the Pink Chicken down the street.

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(I admit, also no reference to resort fees, which may not be included in this pricing, possibly resulting in a somewhat higher cost.)

There is actually such a thing as the scam/rip off/deceptive/slight of hand/cruel/"resort fee"s outside of the scamming Las Vegas and perhaps Reno and Lake Tahoe areas?

Nobody has brought up Motel 8. It is located right across from Mandalay Bay.

Quote: NokTang

There is actually such a thing as the scam/rip off/deceptive/slight of hand/cruel/"resort fee"s outside of the scamming Las Vegas and perhaps Reno and Lake Tahoe areas?

Nok,

Possibly. My hotel rooms in Biloxi-area casinos are fully comped, so I pay nothing, including no resort fees. However...

It is my (perhaps foggy) recollection, if you pay any amount for your resort hotel room, you also must pay an "economic development" tax on the full, undiscounted value of the room. I don't know if this qualifies as "cruel" or "deceptive," but it seems unfair to me. (But, I understand. If the state says, "Someone must pay tax on the full room value," the casino is going to make its guest pay.)

Concerning resort fees to access wi-fi, gym, or pool, I believe -- at least some, and perhaps all -- casino hotels add that as a separate charge when the room is not comped. Others may have more accurate info.

However, this I believe: Whatever the "standard charge" is in Vegas, it is almost certain to be lower in Biloxi-area casino hotels.

Quote: NokTang

There is actually such a thing as the scam/rip off/deceptive/slight of hand/cruel/"resort fee"s outside of the scamming Las Vegas and perhaps Reno and Lake Tahoe areas?

Not a casino destination, but just about all Orlando area hotels have Resort Fees, now. Even dumpy budget places like Travelodge and Days Inn have them.

Quote: Joeman

Not a casino destination, but just about all Orlando area hotels have Resort Fees, now. Even dumpy budget places like Travelodge and Days Inn have them.

Having them as an optional package is fine by me, especially WIFI. Actually, using the pool isn't okay with me as an "extra" charge. I'm not sure what you people have done to my country since I left. Here in Thailand such scams are unheard of. They do try it on in the Philippines under the guise of "service charge" at ten percent. The implication is made rather childlike that it's a tax but it isn't, it's just a scam. The also childlike explanation made by various pay site experts that resort fees were driven by travel agency commissions is ridiculous as well. So bottom line...you are better off at a short time drive up pay through a window joint these days. It will never stop unless people refuse to pay it. Next will be parking charges for hotel guests.