For those who have not tried it, there is a program called TravelAxe that can be helpful in geting rooms in Vegas at good rates. The program, designed and offered by the Vegas.com folks, resides on your PC, but goes out over the Internet and gathers pricing from a variety of travel web sites. It's not perfect (I have found lower rates elsewhere on occasions), but its not bad and certainly worth the price (FREE). If you do elect to make a reservation through the software, READ ALL OF THE FINE PRINT CAREFULLY!. Pay particular attention to the deposit and cancelation policies.
Just need some quick help here....what hotels have high speed internet? I know Aladdin does.
Thanks in advance,
Stu
The LV Hilton and MGM do. I think Venetian and THEhotel also have them.
The Alassin has direct hook up including a flat screen monitor. No need to even bring your machine. 9.95 per day
All the Park Place (now Caesars ent) do - Caesars, Ballys Paris, Flamingo, LVHilton.
Some of the rooms at the Rio have it. I know that most of the rooms at the Mirage do and also the Aladdin.
Some rooms at TI (Treasure Island) have it. There is a daily charge.
Venetian does, Caesars does, at least in the forum tower (although it wasn't mentioned in the hotel paperwork and I only found the cable by accident underneath the TV in the armoir after 2 days of using dialup!) both charge - around $10 a day as I recall for both
I stayed at Paris - Las Vegas last weekend and they had a network cable and a keyboard in the room. Don't know the cost to use.
The hotels that were not pre-wired for high speed can now use the wireless technology to get there, and so it's coming fast to all of them. Last one I stayed at did not have high speed pre-wired, but they gave out a wireless router with an $89.95 deposit (refundable) to my room. The router had a jack just like the wired versions and I plugged the ethernet cable from the router to the pmcia ethernet card in my laptop. It didn't seem quite as fast as the regular hardwired highspeed connections that I've run across in hotels but still, it worked great!!!
I appreciate the reponses. Must be something going on mar 3-5 because all the hotels seem booked. lol. Guess I deserve this a*s kicking for booking so late. Great list, again this photographer thanks you all. I hope to give you all new images of your friends.
And to all the providers who responded to an earlier post of mine (my being there 3/5-3/11)....great pictures we shall take!
Best,
Stu
there are two medium size conventions that week. See www.lasvegastalk.com/conventions/large.html which gives details of all the larger upcoming ones. If you're there for pleasure and don't have to attend these you'll find most of the hotel's rates are lower at other times. The conventions are why I come to LV. Well at least - that's the official reason on my expenses forms 
so I always end up paying inflated room prices - sometimes 3 times the "off peak" rate.
For those who have not tried it, there is a program called TravelAxe that can be helpful in geting rooms in Vegas at good rates. The program, designed and offered by the Vegas.com folks, resides on your PC, but goes out over the Internet and gathers pricing from a variety of travel web sites. It's not perfect (I have found lower rates elsewhere on occasions), but its not bad and certainly worth the price (FREE). If you do elect to make a reservation through the software, READ ALL OF THE FINE PRINT CAREFULLY!. Pay particular attention to the deposit and cancelation policies.
of some discounts. (Sometimes, book direct is the best way.)
BTW, NY/NY has in room high speed internet connection for $9.95.
Apologies to those who know this or are rated, but LV really has two sets of hotel rooms and two price structures - Hotel guests and Casino guests.
Hotel guests book through travel companies or on a casino's website, pay silly - high prices for rooms, and are often subject to sell-outs.
Casino guests have a completely different blocks of rooms assigned to them. The lowest $20 a day gambler still usually gets a room rate FAR lower than the hotel guest above, and rooms are sometimes still available when the property is sold out.
On your next trip to Vegas, sign up for the slot / gambler club at as many casinos as you would consider staying at. Cycle a few bucks through the slot machines using the players cards you get. Then sit back and watch your mail fill with invitations and offers to stay at the casinos. The more you play at any one place, the better the offers - but again even the casual gambler will usually get deals representing bigger discounts on hotel rooms than they spent on the gambling.
Even if there are no mailed offers for when you want to go, the cards give you a "Casino Marketing" or "VIP services" phone number, and you can often get good "casino rates" or access to sold-out properties just by calling that one instead of reservations.
I'm hardly a high roller, but I haven't paid for a suite in Vegas for years.
Damn that Nascar race! I had such a hard time finding a decent place to stay. Wound up at the Residence Inn Marriott, which Im guessing is near the convention center. Got myself a nice studio suite, with FREE high speed internet access.
So....thank you all for the kindly responses. You now have one photographer with a place to stay. Wait til you see the pictures I take of your friends !!
Best Regards,
Stu
www.stuartphotography.com