Will Room Rates Be Raised for Las Vegas Raiders' Home Games?

I would like to ask you about the movement of the Raiders to Las Vegas. Do you think Sunday hotel rates will increase dramatically when Raiders play local on Sunday afternoons?

Probably. If we had to bet on it, we'd take the yes.

It's a simple matter of supply and demand. The stadium will have 65,000 seats. Of course, a sizable percentage of attendance will probably be locals, especially if the Raiders are as successful and exciting as the new Vegas Golden Knights pro hockey team. (And if you haven't taken a look at Joe Pane's blog about the VGK, you might want to; the VGK are breaking records all over the place.)

Still, even if half the stadium is filled by Las Vegans, 32,500 out-of-towners is a fairly big crowd to accommodate throughout fall and early-winter weekends. That number would place in the top 15 of Las Vegas' largest conventions. Rates for rooms on the south Strip will rise with the obvious demand, which will trigger higher rates in the tourist corridor and at nearby locals casinos.

It will be the same as avoiding big conventions; you'll have to check if there's a Raiders' home game scheduled to dodge the inflated rates.

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[email protected] Dec-05-2017

No More Sunday Brunch!

We do not attend major league sports games in Metro Detroit, so why would a Raiders game interest us? Being flexible, we will just fly in on Monday instead. Big deal. We will just have to buy a bottle of the bubbly on our own.

Dave Dec-05-2017

No big deal

Look at this year’s schedule. 

Eight home games, one of which is a Thursday. 

Are you really that worried about this issue, this far in advance?

What might be a bigger issue would be all the other events they book in that stadium all year long...

Carey Rohrig Dec-05-2017

Do you think

This is the same bunch that charge resort fees and for parking

That Don Guy Dec-05-2017

You forget...

Except for Sunday night games, all Sunday home games start no later than 1:30 and should be over by 5 - plenty of time for dinner and then back on I-10 for the drive home to LA.  There may not be much of a fly-in from Oakland as, almost certainly, CBS will consider the Raiders the "local AFC team" in terms of TV scheduling, the way St. Louis gets L.A. Rams games on Fox.

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