What's the Situation with Paid Parking on the Strip?

Updated August 7, 2023

 

On June 6, 2016, MGM Resorts began charging for parking in all of its casino garages. 

 

Originally, all cars — visitors’, rentals, and locals’ — were to be charged the fee to park. But the fit pitched by the vocal locals was so swift and severe that MRI backpedaled for a bit.

 

In the end, in response to the backlash, in spring 2017, MGM raised its parking rates.

 

But after the pandemic shutdown, the situation changed again and now, Nevada residents get three free hours. The first-hour-free-for-everyone policy remains in place; you can run in and out to make a sports bet or cash a ticket, grab some fast food, pick up a friend, etc.

 

All the up-to-date fees and policies for both self- and valet parking are found on our Parking Fees page. 

Hotel guests can charge the parking fees to their room bill and have free in-and-out privileges at sister properties (they scan their room keys at the gates of the other garages). 

 

Hotel guests’ room keys remain active until 11:59 p.m. on the day of departure. In other words, if you check out of MGM Grand at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday, your room key will allow you to park at any MRI property till a minute before midnight that same day.

 

Caesars' Rewards members in the Platinum tier and higher and MLife members with Pearl or higher simply insert their players cards at the ticket booth on the way in and the bar rises. Then they do the same on the way out. It's just as easy as with a hotel-room key card. 

 

If you lose your parking ticket, use the call button on a kiosk (before you get to the gate) to contact the parking "command center"; the parking staff will attempt to determine how long your vehicle has been parked. If they can’t, you’ll be charged $30 for the lost ticket.

 

If you have trouble, all the kiosks and entry/exit gates have a call button that connects with someone in the 24-hour parking command center. Each garage is also (usually) staffed by employees and supervisors from SP+, the paid-parking company, who can help.