Travel Las Vegas On A Budget

So you’ve arrived and settled in to your hotel , but not so flush with cash. Dilemma? Not at all. Firstly, you’re in Las Vegas, there’s temptation everywhere you look and go.

If it’s not a slot machine jackpot promise, a blackjack table in your face around every corner, it’ll most likely be some young sexy girl asking you to buy her a drink and then retire to your room. Now you’re starting to think you’re in heaven right? Hmmm, one of the pitfalls of travelling and having freedom is that if you don’t budget, you’ll be on the next plane home broke, especially in Las Vegas!!!

She was a hooker by the way. A good chance your drink would have been spiked and you’d have woken up with your wallet missing and a massive headache, your drink would have been spiked!!!

Back to “Las Vegas On A Budget”. Get out of that hotel and avoid the tables and sexy seductresses that want you for your money, not your body. The Venetian Casino has one of the best places I’ve every eaten at for the money, in the world! “The Grand Lux” restaurant is a little gem. For $18 odd, plus tip, you’ll get an all you can eat buffet breakfast, including cereal, eggs, toast, fruit, yogurt, danish pastries, juice, coffee and anything else you can think of. All in a world class setting for peanuts! What budget? You’ll feel like a high roller in no time. Oh and if a lady smiles at you in there, i’d say you’re on to a winner 😉

Shuttle bus services operate out of some hotels that’ll take you to Freemont Street for free. The Acey Ducey buss will get you there and back for a few bucks, whereas a taxi will cost you close to $20 with tips. Go there, i strongly recommend it. The Golden Nugget Casino and Binions Casino give you a real sense of what Las Vegas was like “back in the day”.

The Outlets are great for shopping. They are called “North” and “South”, Premium outlets. Google them or look under any “Travel Guide to Las Vegas” and maybe get a cab from downtown Vegas there. It’s cheaper than the other outlets which will cost you $30 for a cab from the Las vegas Strip.

Believe me, that’ll pretty much consume your day. By the time you go to Freemont Street downtown Las Vegas, then go to the outlets and spend hours there looking for bargains (which there are many designer store labels selling goods at a fraction of department store ticket prices), you’re day will be over and time for dinner again.

Being on a travel budget, i usually go back to the Grand Lux Cafe Restaurant at the Venetian Hotel and Casino, because, for $20, i’ll have a nice meal and sparkling mineral water at food court prices, you just can’t compete, really!

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More travel tips for Las Vegas On A Budget in my next travel blog post on Sin City.

See you at the Grand Lux Cafe and Restaurant, bon appetite!