Las Vegas resort fees: what every Strip hotel really costs a night

Hotel groups set one fee for each tier of hotel, so the Strip sorts into a few bands. MGM charges $45 at Luxor, Excalibur and New York-New York, $50 at MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay and Park MGM, and $55 at Bellagio, ARIA, Vdara and The Cosmopolitan. Caesars Entertainment charges $49.95 at its value hotels and $54.95 at Caesars Palace, Paris, Planet Hollywood and The Vanderpump. Almost every other resort at the top end is $55: The Venetian and The Palazzo, Wynn and Encore, Fontainebleau, the three Resorts World hotels, the Four Seasons and Waldorf Astoria.

The room tax applies to the fee as well as the room, so a $55 fee is $62.36 a night on the Strip. Downtown and in Summerlin the tax is 13%: Circa's $50 fee is $56.50 and Red Rock's $55 is $62.15. The lowest fee we found was Trump International's $39, and Casino Royale charges none.

What the fee buys is mostly the same: Wi-Fi, calls, the gym and boarding-pass printing. A few buy more. Wynn and Fontainebleau include self-parking, Circa gives two Stadium Swim passes a room each night, and the Four Seasons fee takes in Mandalay Bay's pools.

On a quiet Tuesday in February the cheapest rooms are cheap enough for the fee to be most of the bill. Ten hotels came in under $100 all-in for the night: Excalibur ($58), Luxor ($61), The LINQ and Circus Circus ($64), Flamingo and Harrah's ($65), The STRAT ($78), Planet Hollywood ($85), New York-New York ($91) and SAHARA ($97). At the six cheapest, the fee with its tax was 80% to 88% of the bill.

Further up, the fee fades into the price. At Bellagio, $273 advertised became $372, and the fee was 17% of it. Of the resorts that charge the full $55, Vdara was the cheapest that night at $306, then the Las Vegas Hilton at Resorts World at $345, ARIA at $364 and Bellagio at $372. Caesars Palace was $295.

SAHARA, at the north end, is the value in our own edit: $31 advertised, $97 all-in, with self-parking and valet free on top.

On Saturday 6 March 2027 the cheap end rose most: Excalibur went from $58 to $180, New York-New York from $91 to $352 and SAHARA from $97 to $306. The big resorts rose less: ARIA from $364 to $467, Bellagio from $372 to $640. The fee stays the same, so it shrinks as a share: at Excalibur it fell from 88% of the bill to 28%. The cheapest all-in on the Strip was Circus Circus at $143, then Excalibur and The LINQ at $180 and Casino Royale, with no fee, at $193.

A few hotels at the top end went the other way. Waldorf Astoria was $569 on the Saturday against $743 on the Tuesday, The Palazzo $399.50 a night against $444, and Red Rock $417 against $433. If your dates include a weekend, price the luxury hotels before you rule them out: on this Saturday The Palazzo, the Las Vegas Hilton at Resorts World ($401), Vdara ($416) and Red Rock all cost about $400 all-in, against $640 at Bellagio.

Not at most of the Strip, and no Expedia total includes it. MGM's hotels charge registered guests $20 a day to self-park and $40 for valet, the same every day, and The Venetian and The Palazzo charge the same. Caesars Palace charges $20 to self-park and $50 for valet, and Las Vegas Advisor's October 2025 table gives the same $20 at the other Caesars hotels, with valet at $40 ($50 at Nobu). Resorts World charges $21 to self-park.

Several hotels put parking inside the price. Self-parking is part of the resort fee at Wynn and Encore, for up to two cars, and at Fontainebleau. Treasure Island says self-parking and valet are always free for its hotel guests, Trump International's valet is free, and SAHARA and Red Rock charge nothing for either. With a car for three nights, free self-parking saves $60 against an MGM, Caesars or Venetian hotel, and free valet at Treasure Island, SAHARA or Red Rock saves $120 against a $40 valet.

The fee is charged on every night at almost every hotel, whoever you book with. These are the ways round it, or round the cost around it, that the hotels publish themselves.

The editor read every price on Expedia.com on 27 October 2026, for one room and two adults, on two nights chosen to avoid the big conventions: Tuesday 23 February 2027, clear of the February trade shows we checked, and Saturday 6 March 2027, after the WVC veterinary conference at Mandalay Bay closes on 3 March. For each hotel we took the cheapest room by total, Expedia's advertised nightly rate and its total with taxes and fees, and the resort fee line from the policies on the same listing.

Every total checks against the arithmetic: room rate plus 13.38% tax (13% at Circa and Red Rock) plus the taxed fee, to within a dollar. The Venetian and The Palazzo would not sell one night, so we priced two and halved the total. Wynn and Encore show one shared list of rooms, so they share a row; the cheapest was an Encore Resort King on the Tuesday and a Wynn Resort King on the Saturday. Fees, inclusions and parking come from the hotels' own pages where they could be read on the same day.