When visiting Las Vegas, you want to ensure that you stay in the hotel that is best suited to you. But which hotel is the best? Of the hundreds of Las Vegas hotels, how do you know which one to entrust your hard-earned money to, in order to ensure that you have the vacation of your dreams, rather than your worst nightmare?
Well, there's no simple answer to this. After all, we all have different ideas of what makes the perfect hotel. However, in my experience, many people would benefit from the old home-buying advice ... the 3 most important points to consider are - location, location & location.
Its obvious really - unless you plan to confine yourself to your hotel for the duration of your stay (and how many people visiting Vegas want to do that?), the location of your accommodation can make the difference between walking miles, carrying shopping bags around, and queuing for (and paying for) taxi cabs ... or ... having a handy base that you can pop back to, easily and quickly, as often as you like.
One of the biggest mistakes made by many tourists visiting Vegas is to under-estimate the length of the Strip. The reality is that Las Vegas Strip is 4 miles long, so if you book into a hotel that is "on the Strip", you could find that you need transport to get to the main central attractions. For example, the Stratosphere is a reasonable economy hotel in the North of Las Vegas Strip. However, this hotel is around 2 miles from the central Strip hotels, such as Caesars Palace and the Bellagio, and this is, for many people, too far to walk. And if you don't mind walking, you may soon realize that the area around the Stratosphere is not the most pleasant area to walk through - I personally feel unsafe walking in this area at night.
The same problem can arise around some of the hotels that are located "just off the Strip". On the map, the hotel may appear to be very close to the Strip, but when you actually get there, you are likely to find that the distance is further than you imagined. Also, once you leave the Strip, the neighbourhoods rapidly become quite 'seedy' so you may not want to walk through these areas at night.
The best solution when staying off the Strip is to travel by taxi cab at night. But this, of course, costs money! Could it be that the lower price you paid for your off-Strip hotel is a false economy?
I'm not trying to say that location is the only factor to consider when selecting a Las Vegas hotel. However, location is one of the most important factors, which can sometimes be improved at no extra cost, and yet is frequently overlooked.
Before you book into a hotel, check the prices of other hotels and do the math! You might find that, if you add in the cost of transport to and from your hotel (possibly several times a day), an off-strip hotel works out more expensive than a similar standard of hotel in a central-strip location.
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