Las Vegas hotels didn’t invent resort fees, but as soon as one of the big properties decided to implement them, the majority of hotels on the Strip followed right along. The hotel can advertise a much cheaper room rate without giving you the full picture. Obviously, seeing the room rate before the resort fee is added looks a lot less expensive, and that, in fact, is the whole point of a resort fee from the hotel’s point of view. Note: You’ll also need to add 13% tax to the whole thing to get your full and complete daily room rate. So, in other words: Room Rate + Resort Fee = Real Room Cost
Room Rate $50 $39 $89 + tax How to properly calculate nightly Las Vegas room rates. So your actual daily Las Vegas room cost might look something like this: Advertised
