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.
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
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.