Ease of Travel

What’s the best part about going to Vegas besides the shows, the gaming, the clubs, the women (and men), the thirty minute weddings, the bufetts, the freebies and the comps? The great hotel rooms! The common strategy for folks who travel to Vegas and intend on staying a week is to spend the weekend nights in an older, middle of the Strip, hotel and the weekday nights in the newer, end of the Strip, hotels. In a recent trip to Las Vegas, my party spent the weekends at Bally’s and the weekdays at Mandalay Bay - and when you’re spending a week there, you’ll find the weekdays are just as rowdy as the weekends in Las Vegas. This strategy is great except now you have to search for the best prices on hotels for the weekdays and then once again on the weekends - then book them both. This is where Travelaxe comes into play.

I was introduced to Travelaxe by Anthony Curtis’ Las Vegas Advisor, who has a great online membership that includes an incredible coupon book (list of coupons) that’s totally worth getting.

Travelaxe is a tool you’ll have to download and install locally that will go online and do all the searching for you. You enter in your dates and it’ll give you a listing of all the hotels and their going rates. You’ll need an internet connection because it will update all the information with actuals, not rack rates. Here is where the strength of the tool comes in - it’ll tell you when major conventions are (there are always conventions being held in Vegas, every single weekend) so you can avoid those times. Travelaxe will search a whole ton of locales, not just Las Vegas, but I only use it for Vegas trips because I understand the nature of the hotel costs there.

If you have any experience with Travelaxe, please do share it, I’m sure everyone would love to hear about it.