Checking of Room Keys - Looking to Book Room For More Than Two Guests Without Declaring

Hello,

Four of us are looking to book either the Wynn, Encore, or Palazzo for a vacation. Seems like there is a huge bump in price when you note that you have more than two people. I also know that many Vegas hotels check the room keys of people as they go up the elevators. My question is, does everyone in the group need to have a room key? If only 2/4 people in the group do, would that be fine, or would security cause an issue of it?

Thanks for any advice.

Quote: ManthanManOO

Hello,

Four of us are looking to book either the Wynn, Encore, or Palazzo for a vacation. Seems like there is a huge bump in price when you note that you have more than two people. I also know that many Vegas hotels check the room keys of people as they go up the elevators. My question is, does everyone in the group need to have a room key? If only 2/4 people in the group do, would that be fine, or would security cause an issue of it?

Thanks for any advice.

If one person in the group has a key, they can bring almost unlimited number of guests with them.
Most of these checks are just for show. Hotels use the same type of card for months and most places don't swipe them, just visually observe them.

Some places do a bit more thorough checks when Sheldon Adelson is in town but usually they just have to see a card in your hand and if someone is clearly with you that will be fine. The guards do learn to recognize faces and see which elevator bank you go to.

Quote: ManthanManOO

Hello,

Four of us are looking to book either the Wynn, Encore, or Palazzo for a vacation. Seems like there is a huge bump in price when you note that you have more than two people. I also know that many Vegas hotels check the room keys of people as they go up the elevators. My question is, does everyone in the group need to have a room key? If only 2/4 people in the group do, would that be fine, or would security cause an issue of it?

Thanks for any advice.

Venetian has a sensor you had to put your key on to get up the elevator.

You would have to say you left your key in the room to get additional keys.

If one chooses to get around much circulating in many of the different communities in the Las Vegas valley, you're likely to eventually get acquainted with all kinds of interesting folks who might be just a little too fabulous for Fresno or Fargo. And what that has to do with this, is that some local ladies who regularly work as informal independent contractors in a certain unlicensed cash generating profession that involves (briefly) visiting many Las Vegas hotel rooms, have been known to routinely carry encyclopedic collections of expired & discarded key cards as a routine part of their tool kit. Several years ago (like about five or six?) one friend who was at that time in a position to know about such things (but has since 'retired' from that business) seemed to take pride in how hers were so very well organized for quick retrieval to flash or just happen to be casually holding when striding by this or that, and maintained in the latest styles as the major places sometimes changed their logos & slogans & whatnot.

I wondered about the fact that surely none of those suckers was any good for opening Jack anymore, and I supposed would also be nothing but a blank dead piece of plastic at best if scanned for information, and some of the colorful little folding cardboard cases from the hotels that kept many of them company were looking, um, pretty mature, like they were rather more experienced than the average vacationing guest. So I asked her if that was ever a problem for delivering her services where requested, and my charming & hard-working entrepreneurial friend replied by looking at me like I was wearing a Bozo suit.

And in contrast to her inventory, you'll be escorting your guests while holding an actual real live one that was born like day before yesterday and didn't even spend any time at all in an ashtray or on the parking garage floor before landing in your responsible hand. So I'd think that's gotta be like your full house beats her twenty or thirty not exactly of a kind. For whatever you think that's worth. Because things do change at specific places now and then. For example sometimes I've run into some extra careful scrutiny myself during a few apparent special security alerts, with somebody actually paying attention temporarily, just as a casino customer entering or driving onto the property. But in my experience those don't seem to be too common or long lasting; my impression is less than 1% probability at any given place on any particular random week.

Quote: FinsRule

Venetian has a sensor you had to put your key on to get up the elevator.

You would have to say you left your key in the room to get additional keys.

Interesting. Your post reminded me that I do know of one other place that requires inserting your key card in a slot in order to use the hotel tower elevator. The El Cortez.

Of course, none of that matters at either that little Venetian joint or at the elegant El Cortez, so long as someone coordinates things enough with their comings & goings so that one of the key-toting members of the posse is escorting his guest upstairs to "visit" with him in his room.

I've noticed access to the hotel pools to be under tighter scrutiny for individual cards than the elevator. But then sometimes the podium at the door was unattended... And I have visited other pools as a guest when staying in a different hotel; walking in with a group of 3-4 legitimate keycard holders (but obviously a member of said group).

Just say you lost your room key or locked it in your room and get more. Then you can give those new keys to the other people.

Quote: Romes

Just say you lost your room key or locked it in your room and get more. Then you can give those new keys to the other people.

Doesn't always work. When new keys are made, the older ones become void, depending on how they're made by the clerk. I've been locked out so many times because of this.

Quote: DrawingDead

is that some local ladies who regularly work as informal independent contractors in a certain unlicensed cash generating profession that involves (briefly) visiting many Las Vegas hotel rooms, have been known to routinely carry encyclopedic collections of expired & discarded key cards as a routine part of their tool kit.

While one can never fully trust Vegas blogs (or any other blog for that matter), I believe one self-professed high end escort proclaimed an ability to turn a man's intended handshake into a reasonable facsimile of a hug so that surveillance did not get overly concerned when shortly after the lobby greeting she accompanied the gentleman to his hotel room.