{"id":5994,"date":"2011-03-15T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2022-12-03T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:28:12","slug":"what-45-gets-you-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/what-45-gets-you-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"What $45 gets you in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Dr. <strong>David G. Schwartz<\/strong> has more or less said, why drop $39\/night at the <strong>SahaRiviCircus<\/strong> when the folks at Caesars Entertainment can fix you up with a <strong>Go Room<\/strong> and a Strip view for $45? (A friend of mine stayed at <strong>Bally&#8217;s<\/strong> a couple of weeks ago and got hit up with $17 in charges for his in-room safe and wi-fi, so beware hidden &#8220;resort fees.&#8221;) According to <strong>HotelChatter.com<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll have to put up with some uncleanliness that is symptomatic of Loveman-era Harrah&#8217;s, er, Caesars. But I suppose if we&#8217;re going to enjoy low-end rates at mid-market hotels, a <strong>Sahara<\/strong>-like experience is the near-inevitable tradeoff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the bye<\/strong>, <em>LVA <\/em>can go HotelChatter.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/referenceguide-locationdetail.cfm?LocationID=22\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">quite a bit better<\/a>. It&#8217;s part of a new <strong>LasVegasAdvisor.com<\/strong> feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/bookroom.cfm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">that connects readers to a plethora of offers<\/a>. Happy hunting!<\/p>\n<p>(A <strong>Flamingo<\/strong> marketing rep replies: <em>After some research, Flamingo does not have a resort fee, but charges for other things like wifi or a safe, but it&#8217;s not required that you pay for these. Resort fees are forced and added to your room charge every day<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Dr. David G. Schwartz has more or less said, why drop $39\/night at the SahaRiviCircus when the folks at Caesars Entertainment can fix you up with a Go Room and a Strip view for $45? (A friend of mine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/what-45-gets-you-in-vegas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,28,7,53,54,8,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32005,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions\/32005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}