My Vegas info experience

[MileHighGrowler]

(05-13-2021, 03:07 PM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: I live in So Cal and used to have family who lived in LV so I have been there a bunch of times.
My advice would be to check Yelp/trip advisor for hotels with good ratings off of the strip.  You will pay a whole lot less $ and there are tons of them to choose from.  Definitely do walk the strip and check out all of the hotels there as they are cool to see.

I looked at prices for the Bengals/Raiders game last night and the cheapest I saw was $350 so I won’t be going. Their stadium looks awesome but they are charging way too much.  The $350 tickets were last row/top level. I checked the Bengals site and for a home game in Cincinnati the upper level is $45. If I add up the costs for travel/hotel/tickets then I can fly to Cincy and watch a home game for about the same price that it would cost to drive and attend a Raiders game in LV.

I would say though that if you're staying off the strip, check the maps to see just how much walking you need to do if you're wanting to be on the strip.  I was there for a conference a couple of years ago and stayed on a street just behind the strip, and it was a solid half hour walk (and I'm a fast walker) to get around the parking structure and delivery docks of the closest casino/hotel to get to anything.  It made dinnertime or timely arrivals for meetings and the expo a pain, and walking that much in nicer shoes for work was miserable.  Uber/Lyft aren't super fast to arrive (wait time from my house is usually ~10 minutes, off the strip there that trip I was waiting ~45 minutes) so it was a lot of inconvenience for the few dollars my company saved by putting us somewhere cheaper.