Where have you stayed in Vegas?

Circus Circus (back when it was pretty nice-I was one of those kids watching my mom play slots for hours!)
Westward Ho- same time period

As an adult (in order of preference):

Orleans
Flamingo
Barbary Coast
Gold Coast
Rio

 

This thread it a little old, but I don't remember seeing it!!!


MGM-First trip in 06 LOVED it!
Tropicana -Our Honeymoon in 07, it was a gift from my brother-didn't love it, but the upgrade was pretty awesome!
Gold Coast X2- 08/09/11LOVE how we are treated there!
Rio-2011 Love the rooms!
The M-2013 Hate how far it is off Strip, but LOVE the room!
Flaming-2013 Why did it take me so long to stay here! I LOVE the pool/location
Monte Carlo-2013- Free room, Loved the view, but nothing too special.

 

I must have missed this thread's first go 'round also.

First trip ever was New Year's 2000. Stayed at a friends house. Didn't gamble. Mostly remember visiting MGM.

Then, our first few years just us, it was exclusively at LVH (then the Las Vegas Hilton) because of the Star Trek Experience. We did not gamble at all.

When the STE closed, we were on our last stay at LVH and came down to the strip to see what it was all about. CET was running a play $100 and get it back promo, so we each ran $100 through some $0.25 slots. When we got the $100 back in the mail, it came with offers for free rooms at IP, so we took them up on it.

Then we got married at Bellagio, so stayed there once.

Stayed at IP for the first several trips while we really got our feet wet gambling. Becoming more comfortable with it and upping our bets and bankroll.

Then more CET free room offers started rolling in. We stayed at Bally's once, Paris once, Caesars a few time, Harrah's once or twice, but basically made our home at Flamingo for the last several years.

Now we're planning to try Paris again in May since we normally stay in a GO Luxury with View on the south side of Flamingo so we can get a good view of the Bellagio fountains, but with the pool/dayclub/nightclub thing going on the roof next door, it seems we may need a new home.

 

Luxor
Mirage
Orleans
Flamingo
Gold Coast
Golden Nugget
Palms
Main Street Station
South Point

Orleans is our current home base.

 

Wynn
Encore
Harrahs
Treasure Island
Vdarra
MGM Signature
Aria

Most of my stay of my 22 trips going 24 are either at the Wynn/Encore. Up next is Harrahs. The rest I only stayed at once. I may stay at the TI more since they canceled that Sirens show. Wanted to do the Aria more but I hate the long walk.

I visited and crashed at but never booked/stayed at the Cosmo, Mandarin Oriental, Palazzo, Bellagio and the Palms.

 

Aladdin
Bally's
Luxor
THEHotel
NYNY
Monte Carlo
Aria
Vdara
Bellagio
Ceasars
Trump

 

Planet Hollywood
MGM Grand
New York New York
Monte Carlo
Golden Nugget
MGM Grand again

In 79 days - Excalibur

 

I first visited Las Vegas in the mid 1970s. Since then I've done LV at least once each year and multiple times many years. Last decade has been an average of 5-6 trips a year both business and pleasure. It may be easier just listing where I HAVEN'T stayed, but I think I can do a reasonably accurate list ...

El Cortez (first one ever!)
Stardust (all-time fave!)
Nevada Hotel (it was nice then)
Riviera
Ferguson Motel (it was nice too back then)
California
Plaza
Sahara (countless times, another fave)
LV Hotel (nee' Hilton)
Westward Ho
Terribles
Treasure Island
Harrah's
Imperial
Flamingo
Caesars
Bally's
Wynn (blow on fingernails, wipe on blouse)
Super 8 Ellis Island
HI Express by Cannery
Luxor
Boomtown/Silverton
All three in Primm (do these count?)

 

Trip #1: Circus Circus. What a dump and the place was teeming with screaming children running everywhere. We got a "great" deal on the room through AAA and I didn't know anything about The Strip at the time. We ended up spending all our time at the South end of the Strip anyway, so whatever we saved on the room was spent on cab fare.

Trip #2: The Bellagio. Worlds of difference. Very, very luxurious. We ordered room service for breakfast and I had the best coffee I've ever had anywhere. The casino was very classy, if a little smoky for my taste. We caught "O", which was awesome.

Trip #3: The Vdara. My wife wanted a non-smoking hotel that was close enough to a decent casino, so we stayed at Vdara and gamed at The Aria next door. The Aria has probably the best casino I have played in. We caught "Zarkana", which was pretty good, but you could tell it was a former touring production and not a show designed specifically for LV.

 

Flamingo - 1994
Stardust - first 2 trips with hubby
TI - when owned by MGM
Mirage
MGM
NYNY
Aria
Paris - hubby stayed here in 2012

Probably Mirage more than any of the others, kind of like home base but this year maybe a CET property or Aria again.

 

Mandalay Bay (twice?)
Luxor
NYNY (4 times)
Cosmo (twice)
Mirage (twice)
New Frontier
Fitzgeralds
MGM Grand (5-6 times)
Planet Hollywood (5+times)
Flamingo

My trip counts are estimates, especially MGM, that was our home for quite a while, now I'm at PHo or Cosmo mostly.

Great thread!

 

1. Vdara
2. Palazzo
3. Aria. Mirage
4. Bellagio. Aria.

 

Cosmo (3 times)
Flamingo (2 times)
Venetian
Harrahs
Mirage
Golden Nugget

 

Vegas World
Westward Ho
Wyndham Grand Desert
Bellagio
Aria
Golden Nugget
Have seen a wide range of accommodations in Vegas!

 

Every current Strip casino with the exception of Venetian, Palazzo or The Quad (stayed at The Imperial Palace). Every current Downtown casino except for The Downtown Grand and The D (did stay at Fitzgeralds).

Nevada Casino Stays:

(2) Riviera (6/91; 10/93)
(2) Tropicana (8/94; 11/12)
(5) Harrah's (8/94; 10/95; 10/97; 6/99; 9/09)
(2) Harrah's Laughlin (10/97; 9/99)
(2) Golden Nugget (5-6/02; 5/04)
(5) Stardust (12-1/02-03; 10/03; 12/04; 12/05; 10/06)
(1) Aladdin (12/04)
(1) Boulder Station (12/05)
(2) The Orleans (10/07; 8/13)
(1) Fitzgeralds (7/08)
(1) Las Vegas Club (7/08)
(1) Bally's (7/08)
(1) Hooter's (10/08)
(1) MGM Grand (10-11/08)
(1) MGM Signature (11/08)
(2) Wynn (1/09; 1/12)
(1) Mirage (1/09)
(2) Caesars Palace (1/09; 8/13)
(1) Encore (1/09)
(2) Excalibur (1/09; 5/12)
(3) Rio (2/09; 11/09; 11/11)
(1) Imperial Palace (2-3/09)
(2) Paris (4/09 & 6/11)
(2) Palms (4/09; 6/09)
(1) Gold Coast (6/09)
(1) Bill's Gambling Hall & Saloon (6/09)
(1) New York New York (9/09)
(1) Monte Carlo (11/09)
(1) The Hotel at Mandalay Bay (11/09)
(1) Luxor (1/10)
(2) Treasure Island (2/10; 5/12)
(1) Flamingo (3/10)
(2) Bellagio (3/10; 1/12)
(2) Aria (4/10; 6/12)
(2) El Cortez (5/10 & 6/11 Cabana Suites)
(2) Las Vegas Hilton (8/10; 8/11)
(1) Sahara (8/10)
(1) Circus Circus (1/11)
(3) Planet Hollywood (1/11; 11/12; 1/14)
(1) Stratosphere (2/11)
(2) Fremont (3/11; 11/11)
(3) Four Queens (6/11; 6/12; 8/13)
(1) Plaza (8/11)
(1) Cosmopolitan (8/11)
(1) Harrah's Reno (8/11)
(1) Golden Gate (9/11)
(1) Mandalay Bay (9/11)
(1) Gold Spike (11/11)
(2) LVH (5/12; 1/14)
(1) Red Rock Resort (6-7/12)
(1) Casino Royale (9/12)
(1) Harrah's Lake Tahoe (9/12)
(1) Silverton (9/12)
(1) South Point (9/12)
(1) Green Valley Ranch (9/12)
(1) Main Street Station (11-12/12)
(2) The California (12/12; 8-9/13)

 

Impressive list, Viva! Is it safe to assume you've made an effort to stay in as many places as possible?

Are V/P and Downtown Grand on your to do list?

 

Imperial Palace x4
Bally's x2
Stardust
Excalibur
Arizona Charlie's Decatur
Barbary Coast x2
Bill's x3
Harrah's x3
Orleans x3
Four Queens x2
Binion's
California
Rio

 

Thanks!

For most of my Vegas years, I stayed where ever I was comped. I started seeding future comp stays at different hotels in the 2008s-2009s and began to make it a quest to hit all Vegas casinos (perhaps Nevada :evillaugh) at that time.

I went from the 1-2 trips/year to 5-6 for a four year stretch (I'm back to 1-2/year). I tried hitting at least one new casino each trip. Since many of my trips are extended (7-14 days), it has been easy to hit 3-4 hotels during the 1-2 week trips. I've averaged just over two different casinos per trip, and my average trip length is just over 6 days.

Seven of the stays were limited to the fly-in night, just to knock it off the list (Golden Gate, Plaza, Silverton, Hooters, Casino Royale, Gold Spike and Fitzgeralds), but the rest were standard 2-5 night stays, mostly comped.

I will definitely try to hit the remaining casinos (and additional off-strip casinos down the road). Suncoast, Downtown Grand, JW Marriott (2-4 days) or The Quad / The D (1-2 days) are under consideration for the June trip.

EDC is in town during the June trip, and as a result, room rates are jacked up during the final weekend, so I am likely staying comp only for the final weekend. I'll hit V/P at some point but I really can't stand the smell in there.

The Stardust was probably my favorite. We played a lot at The Desert Inn, and I wished I stayed there at least once before they closed.

I like the rooms at The Cosmo, Wynn, MGM Grand and Caesars Palace among the higher tier casinos, Bally's, PHo and Treasure Island in the mid tier range, and The California and El Cortez Cabana Suites for downtown rooms.

Red Rock Resort, Green Valley Ranch and Palms are very nice off-strip properties, and outside of Vegas, I really liked Harrah's Lake Tahoe, for the location, rooms and the decent Video Poker they offer.

 

Hmmm takes me back down memory lane.

Luxor
NYNY
Circus Circus
Imperial Palace
Palazzo
Terrible's
Palace Station
Boulder Station
Red Rock

After this next trip in 21 days I'll be able to add on M Resort, Downtown Grand and Silverton.

 

First trip in June 2001. Hotel hopped several times on those early trips. We've stayed 5X at Paris, 5X at Red Rock - our favorite joints.

Stratosphere
Imperial Palace
Westgate Flamingo Bay
Binion's Horseshoe
Paris
Barbary Coast
Harrah's
Green Valley Ranch
Bally's
Red Rock
Wynn
Hard Rock
Monte Carlo
Mandalay Bay
Bellagio
Planet Hollywood
Flamingo

later, GVJ