Below are our Top 10 Las Vegas Tips For New Visitors! Take full advantage of your time in Las Vegas.
- Visit mid-week. Hotel rooms can cost almost four times as less during the week. As well you won’t have to deal with the crowds. Believe me, when you are waiting 30 minutes for a drink at the bar, or every slot machine is taken, you’ll quickly realize why weekends are the real rookie move, and the pros go mid week. There’s still plenty of fun to be had and far less crowds, AND cheaper hotel rates.
2. Get a players card right away. When you visit any casino, go immediately to the Players Club (sometimes they name them slightly different – points club, player rewards, rewards club, etc), and sign up. The card is completely free, but it is how you earn free rewards and comps. Even after your trip you’ll start receiving offers for free rooms and free slot play. While in Las Vegas, you can accumulate points which can be redeemed for free meals, free hotel rooms and other promos.
3. Don’t Play Slots if you want to stretch your gambling budget. I know it’s hard, but slots are the quickest way to lose your money. You might have fun doing it, but it’ll be short lived. You have far better odds playing the various table games.
4. Set loss limits. Have a pre defined budget per day for gambling and stick to it. Nothing is worse than blowing your entire gambling budget day one, or even worse dipping into your budget for food and other entertainment, only to lose that money as well. Your fun 4 days in Vegas will become very non-fun if you lose all your money.
5. Tipping – tip the dealers at the end of your session, not for every win. For cocktail servers, $1 per drink is standard. If you want to make an impression, $2 will get her coming around more often.
6. Ask for comps. You don’t have to wait for the pre defined comps level on your card. If you feel you’ve played enough to warrant it, go to the players club and see what they can do for you.
7. Get half priced show tickets. There are plenty of booths on the strip and downtown. Only rookies pay full price for show tickets. They will have every single major show, and are licensed to unload excess tickets at a deep discount.
8. Don’t try to hail a cab on the strip. This isn’t New York. Cabs are not legally allowed to pick you up on the strip directly. You have to go to a cab stand which is at every entrance of every casino. Just find it and use it.
8b. Speaking of things to not do on the strip, don’t try to cross Las Vegas Blvd unless its at a cross walk or bridge. You’ll most likely get hit, and/or someone like myself will gun for you. Including cabs, nothing brings more joy to a cabbies day than seeing some stupid half drunk pedestrian trying to run across 8 lanes, and accelerating directly at them.
9. Walk the strip, but bring your walking shoes. Those casinos look deceptively close together. They aren’t. Still, I encourage you to walk the strip, there’s plenty of cool stores and sights to be seen.
10. Anyone giving you something for free is probably going to rip you off. Time share sales people are the scum of the earth, and we personally hope each and every one of them suffers a long life of misery. So when that chick comes up to you on the strip asking “how long are you in town? would you like a free show”? Tell them to fuck off and make better life choices.
