ATP: Las Vegas suites

Any suggestions on where to stay that is affordable for 5 people? In my search it just a bunch of random rooms and tendious to search through.

Are you going for a weekend or during the week?

Is it a family with kids? Or five friends?

The Rio is affordable. Downside is it sucks.

bym051d said:

The Rio is affordable. Downside is it sucks.

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It's also off The Strip.

RJKarl said:

Are you going for a weekend or during the week?

Is it a family with kids? Or five friends?

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Going for a work conference with 4 other colleagues. Would be Monday to Saturday which is way too long in Vegas IMO so if you have other activites outside of Vegas to do, also include those if you would.

Is it in January? If so, you could spend some time at the porn convention after events.

I've always liked a locals Chinese place called Joyful House. It's really, really good and authentic. Lots of Chinese people eat there.

Buatista's Hole in the Wall has a little above average food, but it's classic Old Vegas. It the Nicky's restaurant in Casino.

Piero's is excellent Italian, but you'll need a reservation.

There's a place downtown call Le Pho that's fun Asian food.

Other Mama is off the beaten track and is a great oyster/raw bar.

Check out Kayak for rooms. You might get three rooms for good prices. Don't ask any Vegas hotel for "corporate rates". You will get suckered.

If any of you like roller coasters, take your rental car about 40 minutes to Arizona Charlie's at the CA/NV border. It's been rated in the Top 10 wooden roller coasters in the country several times.

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Venetian is the all suite hotel and will give you the best bang for the buck. 2 beds and a separate area with a couch that pulls out I believe (or you can get a 3rd sent up to the room) will fit 3 in a room easily, 5 per room if you double up on the beds.

palmab03 said:

Venetian is the all suite hotel and will give you the best bang for the buck. 2 beds and a separate area with a couch that pulls out I believe (or you can get a 3rd sent up to the room) will fit 3 in a room easily, 5 per room if you double up on the beds.

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I’d quit on the spot if work suggested I share a room, let alone a bed.

DistrictDeacon said:

I’d quit on the spot if work suggested I share a room, let alone a bed.

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I didn’t read down where it said it was a work Thing. If it’s work why care about it being cheap?


If just need cheap rooms then the NYNY /Excalibur area will be both cheap and centrally located

You might look at the Jockey Club - tucked in next to the Bellagio.

Circus Circus usually has something cheap.

There is a Hampton Inn just a few blocks off the strip that also generally maintains Hampton Inn rates, even in Vegas. Tuscany is another place that is pretty cheap.

Depending on where you need/want to be, look in North Las Vegas.

Grand Canyon and Lake Meade/Hoover Dam are not too far, depending on your available time.

Red Rock Canyon is a place you can see the desert environment that is what Las Vegas was before the Hoover Dam brought water.
https://www.redrockcanyonlv.org/

National Atomic Testing Museum is a few block off the strip. How stuff got blown up. Some of what happened out at the Nevada Test Site.
http://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/

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You can tour the inside of the Hoover Dam (power plant part).

Another good place we used to go was the Sahara. Its gone now, but in 1975 I spent a weekend there with Bill Sadler and Steve Capinelli.

Back in those days they had the best buffet in Vegas. Billy hadn't really made it into acting yet, and Stevie was helping me produce Janis Joplin's final album.

We were at the Knickerbocker Room on Tropicana for dinner and dropped about $800 on dinner and drinks. We got in a cab to head back to the Sahara and the cabbie turns out to be a guy i knew from Philly, Morry Clemons.

So he offers to take us to the best strip club in town and says no one knows about it other than locals. It's in a warehouse in a desolate part of town on the south end of the strip - where Mandalay is today.

We all go in and Morry comes with us. Inside it's hookers everywhere and it's basically a sex show. We got some drinks and sat down to watch.

About this time the police showed up and busted the whole place up. Turns out it was in the city limits and the sex show wasn't legal. So everyone in the place gets arrested, including us.

Stevie uses his phone call to call his uncle back in Jersey. next thing you know we're getting balied out by a guy Stevie only knows as Three Fingers Tommy, who is missing his index finger and thumb on his right hand. Turns out that the Capinellis were running half of Vegas in those days. First time I ever remember getting bailed out of jail by a mobster.

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is that a god dam?

rkarl said:

Stevie uses his phone call to call his uncle back in Jersey. next thing you know we're getting balied out by a guy Stevie only knows as Three Fingers Tommy, who is missing his index finger and thumb on his right hand. Turns out that the Capinellis were running half of Vegas in those days. First time I ever remember getting bailed out of jail by a mobster.

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Another BS story from RJ! Everyone knows Tommy only had 2 fingers!

palmab03 said:

I didn’t read down where it said it was a work Thing. If it’s work why care about it being cheap?

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Because not everyone works for large corporations? I've been to Vegas for conferences with a 4 person real estate firm, a startup software company, and for a new business I'm starting. It's not quite the same as just throwing it on the old corporate card and buying all of your boss' drinks so that he can sign off on the expense report.

RJKarl said:

Is it in January? If so, you could spend some time at the porn convention after events.

I've always liked a locals Chinese place called Joyful House. It's really, really good and authentic. Lots of Chinese people eat there.

Buatista's Hole in the Wall has a little above average food, but it's classic Old Vegas. It the Nicky's restaurant in Casino.

Piero's is excellent Italian, but you'll need a reservation.

There's a place downtown call Le Pho that's fun Asian food.

Other Mama is off the beaten track and is a great oyster/raw bar.

Check out Kayak for rooms. You might get three rooms for good prices. Don't ask any Vegas hotel for "corporate rates". You will get suckered.

If any of you like roller coasters, take your rental car about 40 minutes to Arizona Charlie's at the CA/NV border. It's been rated in the Top 10 wooden roller coasters in the country several times.

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when was the last time you visited these places? also, driving 40 minutes for a wooden coaster? NOPE.

The last time I was in Vegas was three years ago. I went to Joyful House and Piero's on that trip. Friends have been to both within the last year as well as Other Mama's in the spring. A buddy told me about Le Pho a few months ago.

Gotta love how a guy asks for affordable places to stay and RJ chimes in with a long post about food recommendations he probably pulled from TripAdvisor, and then throws in a small comment about checking Kayak for rooms.