Hotels FAQ

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>-Don’t forget that Vegas still leads the nation in "assault crimes" (eg >beatings, stabbings, robbery). Any walk in Vegas, off the strip, IMO is >playing with fire. Personally, being able to walk to all the cool casinos >and then being able to just head down the strip to my room at the Mirage,

The Holiday Inn Boardwalk Casino is right next to some very expensive hotels that have some very good restaurants. The restaurants at the Holiday Inn stinks. It is in the middle of the strip between Bellagio and NYNY Hotel. The hotel is owned by Steve Wynn. I think he bought it for its location. It certainly isn’t up to his usual quality hotels. But for $1/night I don’t expect much except a place to sleep and to walk to the other fancy hotels. Ira Zimmerman

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I live in Vegas!  i walk down the strip in the middle of the night with no fear!! I am a rather attractive female! The "assults’ are in the old sleezy part of town, far away from the strip! The Holiday Inn Boardwalk, is a clean and safe hotel.  other bargin hotels include the Sahara, Excalaber, Trop, Maxims, Barnaby Coast, Riviera, Frontier, and Stardust. These are all top notch and will have rooms for $29 to $49 per night.  The city fill the showrooms by offering locals 2 for 1 tickets after the national rodeo finals and Christmas. I use to live in Orange County and LA, and this is 1000 times safer!!! Lor

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Has anyone thought about flying to Las Vegas before Christmas? This is usually a slow period for the hotel casinos there and the rates can be pretty low. Here is something that some may find hard to believe, but it is true. I just got a $1/night Priceline.com bid accepted for 4 nights accommodations at the Holiday Inn Casino-Boardwalk. While this is not a really impressive hotel by Las Vegas standards, it is in a great location on the strip about 0.5 mile walk to NYNY and MGM Grand. This is right before Christmas which used to be pretty slow in Vegas. Although I don’t think that things are really ever slow in Vegas due to their great marketing of Vegas as family vacation spot. The hotel has a Coney Island theme which may remind me of my youth. I spend many summer nights sleeping on Coney Island beach when the weather got too hot to sleep in our apartment. We didn’t have air conditioning. Ira Zimmerman

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Can’t say I can beat $1/night for a hotel, but in Vegas, my experience has been that you truly do get what you pay for. I was in Vegas (one of about 20 trips total to Vegas) last year for Xmas also and this is what I found: -The crowds are not going be as small you would expect them to be. You’ll have a hard time believing that you’re there on a major holiday because someone forgot to tell the blackjack dealer that just took your $50 bet . -Don’t fool around with anything else, get a room on the strip. Last year, I got a "cheap" room at the Mirage for $100/night, which is GREAT for a room on the strip. The time and money you’ll save will be worth the expense, service is much better and you’ll be much more comfortable all around. -Don’t forget that Vegas still leads the nation in "assault crimes" (eg beatings, stabbings, robbery). Any walk in Vegas, off the strip, IMO is playing with fire. Personally, being able to walk to all the cool casinos and then being able to just head down the strip to my room at the Mirage, Venetian, Paris, etc is MUCH better than having to head down some dark street and try to find my hotel. Good luck, Dennis

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Has anyone thought about flying to Las Vegas before Christmas? This is usually > a slow period for the hotel casinos there and the rates can be pretty low. > Here is something that some may find hard to believe, but it is true. > I just got a $1/night Priceline.com bid accepted for 4 nights accommodations at > the Holiday Inn Casino-Boardwalk. While this is not a really impressive hotel > by Las Vegas standards, it is in a great location on the strip about 0.5 mile > walk to NYNY and MGM Grand. This is right before Christmas which used to be > pretty slow in Vegas. Although I don’t think that things are really ever slow > in Vegas due to their great marketing of Vegas as family vacation spot. > The hotel has a Coney Island theme which may remind me of my youth. I spend > many summer nights sleeping on Coney Island beach when the weather got too hot > to sleep in our apartment. We didn’t have air conditioning. > Ira Zimmerman

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