Vegas hotel prices - check yours again!

2008-09-24 19:39:07

We're booked for Vegas flying out 5th October. We put the trip together ourselves, booking flights, car hire and hotel separately. We booked our hotel on line way back in February, paying just the first night's charge as deposit.

On Sunday last - and don't ask why I checked, I just did - I looked again at the hotel website, and found to my astonishment that the same room, for the same dates, was now on offer for a few cents under $400 cheaper.

You pay the rate you booked at, so I rebooked at this new lower rate and then cancelled my earlier booking, and got a refund of my deposit back to my credit card.

If you have booked a Vegas hotel direct it's probably worth a recheck before you travel, as you may find the rates have dropped.

Edited by Sancho Proudfoot 2008-09-28 17:17:35

TeeCee

2008-09-25 00:15:05

Re: Vegas hotle prices - check yours again!

Yup, Vegas especially is like this, even though I got a rate around 35% less than MGM originally wanted for the Signature, I kept checking the rates and within a week of me flying, the management company dropped the rates again so I cancelled my original booking and rebooked on the new one saving another $500.
You simply MUST keep an eye on prices if you're going to Vegas and you've booked your hotel seperately, it's almost inevitable that prices will drop unless it's a 'holiday' period in the States or there's a big convention or sporting event in town

Cheers

TC

andream

2008-09-25 08:35:31

Re: Vegas hotle prices - check yours again!

Going Christmas and part of our stay is four nights at the Golden Nuggett, I have been watching the prices and they dropped last week so I gave them a quick call and they changed my booking to the new lower prices, no problem at all, didn't even have to cancel and rebook. Keeping my eye on other booking see if same happens.

jwhiting

2008-09-25 08:55:05

Re: Vegas hotle prices - check yours again!

Yep it's a nice little Vegas quirk with hotel bookings and I concur with the advice to keep on looking right upto your departure dates. Another thing is to ring up Casino Marketing of the hotel you are staying at to see if your previous game play affords a reduced room rate. I did this for a Friday on our last trip and managed to get a room in the MGM down from $189 to $109. Well worth the phone call, and at the same time, also worth asking for special requests such as strip view etc.