How Do I Rent a Scooter for Getting Around in Casinos?

My wife and I have been visiting Las Vegas twice a year since we both retired 25 years ago. I have now been diagnosed with spinal arthritis and use a cane. Getting around casinos is more difficult than it used to be. I see people using electric scooters to get around. Do the casinos rent them? If so, by the hour, day, week? Where does one find them?

Motorized scooters are now provided by big-box scores like Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, and Target, and many casinos are even bigger in terms of floor space.

We canvassed casinos downtown and on the Strip and can report that 38 properties will happily rent you a mobility scooter. In all cases, you pick it up at the bell desk, although sometimes you will have to reserve it through the concierge (a procedure we’d recommend anyway, just to be safe).

All MGM Resorts International properties — MGM Grand, Aria, Bellagio, Vdara, Mandalay Bay, Mirage, Excalibur, Luxor, Circus Circus, Park MGM, and New York-New York — rent scooters and give a variety of options. Standard and portable scooters rent for $40 a day, $80 for two days, $100 for three, $110 for four, and $130 for five days to a week. Oversize scooters are $50 for one day, $85 for two, $105 for three, $115 for four, and $135 for five days to a week. Power wheelchairs (which you can take on the Las Vegas Monorail and Deuce bus) start at $65 a day, $90 for two, , $110 for three, $125 for four, and $145 for five days to a week. Whatever option you choose, you generally get a better deal (except from The D) by planning a long stay, thereby getting the most of your rental.

We'll cover the rest of the properties in detail in tomorrow's answer, but if the hotel-casino in which you're staying doesn't offer mobility-scooter rentals (Station Casinos, for one), you can always rent one from an outside provider.

For instance, Las Vegas Scooters (702scooters.com) delivers 14 types of scooter free of charge to 80 hotels and casinos and services 16 outlying hotel-casinos for a fee. Rentals start at $39 a day, although most average around $65/day. Pricing is on a sliding scale, incentivizing you to keep your scooter longer. It is the preferred provider for the Westin, in case you are thinking of staying there.

If you feel better booking with a national chain, try YellowScooters.com. It rents eight different models of scooter and power chair, starting at $65 and going up to $120/day. Its best deal is the V10 Portable HD Scooter, which starts at $45/day and maxes out at $97/week. Yellow offers free delivery, but is a bit vague as to exactly where, so you’ll want to call or use the onsite email ahead of time.

Scooterbug (which is employed by the Hard Rock Hotel, to name one client) offers four models of scooter, three of them starting at $45/day and one at $50. It can deliver to your site in about an hour. It services over 190 hotels, motels, condos and apartment complexes in the greater Las Vegas area and (like the other providers) fills in the niche left by casino chains such as Station Casinos and Boyd Gaming that don’t rent scooters to their patrons.

Tomorrow: Where to rent a scooter and the going rate.

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Kevin Lewis Mar-08-2019

Why not free?

Hell, Wal-Mart lets seniors use them free of charge and there are always several available. I've seen them available in other stores, particularly big-box. Casinos would benefit by offering them for use for free on the premises, as doing so would attract customers and encourage them to stay longer. But I guess that Vegas casinos aren't as classy as Wal-Mart.
It's just another attempt to squeeze every last dime out of Vegas visitors. As I've said before, bathroom resort fees are on the horizon.

Dave Mar-08-2019

Free? No way!

When they get used at Wall-Mart, they’re used for an hour or so, and only within that store. Not for days on end, at that location, as well as - yikes! - while visiting the competitor next door. 

Note that many shopping malls have them too, but those are also rentals.

terrol Mar-08-2019

owner

Where is a reasonably priced breakfast on the strip? Terry

Randall Ward Mar-08-2019

scooter

not bad deal, and free ones tend to get abused.

Kevin Lewis Mar-08-2019

Easy to make it work

Dave, to keep the scooters on-property, it would be easy to install a device like those many grocery retailers put on shopping carts. Cross the boundary and the power to the wheels is cut off. As far as free scooters getting beaten up from use, well, that happens to rentals, too. Obviously, there would be costs--but casinos, money factories that they are, can easily absorb those costs as a gesture (however phony) of goodwill.
And Terrol, the best, most reasonably priced breakfast on the Strip is at the Aria, at a place coincidentally called "Scooter's"! It's behind a hidden door--look for the sign that says "Emergency Exit Only--Alarm Will Sound" and go right in.

Jon Anderson Mar-08-2019

scooters

can these various rented scooters be used to tour the strip??? are the crossovers user friendly to them??? i have a good buddy who just can't walk well enough to get around like i want to and it'd be great to rent a couple of these scooters and head off on a tour of the strip and the casinos. any answers folks ???
thanks for whatever help possible.

Roy Furukawa Mar-08-2019

Free?

I have to disagree with Mr. Lewis about providing scooters for free. How many able bodied people more than just disabled would take advantage of a free scooter? It would end up worse than the spaghetti bowl of freeway interchanges in downtown LV inside of those casinos. Worse, the minute someone wants to go out, it would be a big no-no and would get confiscated because it would be for on property use only. Not a pretty sight for the casino to be taking grandma’s scooter at the front door.

Dave in Seattle. Mar-08-2019

OLD info.

We rent through Desert Medical (some hotels no longer offer rental other than through Desert Medical).

You can contact them @ 866-711-9171..

There is no limit on where you can take scooter. We frequently switch hotels during our stay - pick up at one hotel & drop off at different one. Just let Desert Medical know when you make the reservation.

Pick it up and return @ bell desk. 

We have never had a problem - just be sure to charge it every night.

Seamans Mar-08-2019

cheap brkfst

dennys cheapist breakfast

Toad Mar-08-2019

Couple of things to keep in mind

Some things to think about when renting a scooter:
Battery life – If you plan on being on the go a lot rent a scooter with a longer lasting battery. Also charge it whenever not in use. When in your hotel room make sure the plug in is working. My last trip my scooter kept dying and I couldn’t figure out why. It turned out the scooter always showed a 100% charge, but all of my plug ins in my room kept going in and out so I didn’t have a full charge.

Type of scooter – Many places in Vegas and other tourist places rent scooter that don’t breakdown for car storage for getting to place from place. Sites like www.cloudofgoods.com does have them. If you have special needs like you are taller than average or weigh more than average it is also good to check for scooters made for those issues. I am a tall guy and when given a low seated scooter my knees hurt within the hour.

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Toad Mar-08-2019

Couple of things to keep in mind 2

Insurance – It is almost always a good idea to buy the extra insurance if you don’t have a home owner’s or home renter’s policy. These are often covered, but ask your agent. People tend not to pay attention to those of us on scooters and walk into us. Sometime hard enough to cause damage. You may even hit something. Also it is rare, but I have heard when going into places a scooter won’t fit people have left their scooter outside a store and drunk people sometimes mess with it or steal it if they can.

Llew Mar-11-2019

Recommended

I haven't needed a mobility scooter for a few years (I'm bionic now😁), but when I did I used Las Vegas Scooters.  Good prices and excellent service.  Scooters were delivered to the hotel and when I was finished with it, I just left it at the bell desk, where it was picked up.  Worked at non-Strip/Downtown casinos as well.  
I always rented a scooter that could be taken apart to fit in my rental car trunk.  Slipped a few bucks to the valets and they lifted it in and out of the trunk for me; even helped me reassemble it.  
One word to the wise: if you have to leave your scooter unattended, even for a minute, take the key with you.

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