Most of the Las Vegas travel guides out there assume that you’re visiting Vegas to gamble. They offer great tips on how to get your trip comp’d by a casino – or at least how to get dirt-cheap offers on trips from casino hotels – but almost all of the sure-fire ways to score great deals in Vegas involve being a gambler. If a casino hotel knows you’re going to be dropping lots of money in the casino, then they still come out ahead if they comp your room.
What if you’re not a gambler, though? What if you like the variety of activities in Vegas, but you’re never going to be enough of a gambler for a casino to offer you freebies? Thankfully, there are still Las Vegas deals that you can take advantage of.
Whether you love Vegas or hate it, or hate to love it and love to hate it like I do, Las Vegas has certainly been home to some jaw-dropping amazing travel deals lately. As one of the cities that’s been hardest hit by the economic recession (conventions that were once constant in the city have slowed way down and leisure travelers have stopped coming in such large numbers), Las Vegas has been struggling to fill up its hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms lately. This means that many of these 
I love to hate Las Vegas. Or should I say I hate to love Las Vegas? Maybe it’s a little bit of both. While Vegas is certainly the home of over-the-top excess, the capital of tacky and the definition of so many things I claim to dislike (especially in a travel destination) there is just something slightly irresistible about Vegas. Maybe it’s the lack of open container laws or social acceptance of day-light drinking, but despite the huge number of lakes and fountains in the desert, sky-high prices and Dinseyland for adults feeling, I have to admit Vegas is a whole lot of fun. From great shows to highly rated restaurants, adding on to the list of positives for Vegas lately have been some of the absolutely insane travel deals to Sin City that have been popping up pretty much everywhere lately.
Unless you’ve been living under some really big rock for the past 10 months, you’ve probably noticed that travel to just about everywhere has been pretty cheap. Airfares are way down, and with 17% fewer traveler expected to take to the air this Labor Day Weekend, you’d imagine that the airlines have been offering up some pretty sweet fare sales and package deals to encourage travelers to hit the road. There are a few destinations that are offering up some especially good deals this fall—and Vegas is certainly one of them. Southwest Airlines is offering up some 
The last time I was in Vegas, I told myself I probably wouldn’t return to Sin City until I had a few more dollars in my pocket to stay someplace a little more fabulous, eat at some of the city’s best restaurants, have the cash to really enjoy the city (and all of the opportunities to get in trouble) and maybe even get 
I have a love/hate relationship with Vegas. As much as I love it being socially acceptable to drink during the daylight hours and that it’s a place where booze and entertainment seems to take precedence over other things, I also have a little bit of trouble getting behind the sheer excess, triple digit temperatures and abundance of water features, green grass and fountains in the middle of the desert. That being said, despite its drawbacks, Vegas sure is one hell of a fun place to visit. Also, thanks to getting hit hard by the recession, there are also some absolutely screaming 
While the age of digital cameras and social networking sites have pretty much done away with the notion that anything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas (now it’s more like anything that happens in Vegas…later gets posted on facebook), that doesn’t mean you can’t have a hellaciously good time in Sin City. Especially with so many great deals and insane special at hotels on the strip, you also shouldn’t have a hard time booking your Vegas vacation for a whole lot less money than you thought (less money on hotel = more money for booze and gambling). 
There have been a few places especially hard hit by the economic woes of the country and Vegas is certainly one of them. With conventions and tourism down, there are some truly spectacular deals out there in Sin City. In an effort to coax more people to Vegas (and into those casinos), you could easily find an unbelievable deal on a little Vegas vacay. 
What do you get when you cross gambling, lots of booze, tons of shows, great restaurants and plenty of scantily clad guys and gals (many of whom dance on stage in town)? Sin City, of course. In a city designed around excess, parties and having a great time, it is no wonder many people flock to Vegas for its wealth of entertainment and opportunity to get into trouble. As it turns out, however, those flocks have been growing increasingly smaller as the economy has kepy many gamblers and revelers at home this year—which has meant for some phenomenal deals on vacation packages to Sin City.