Las Vegas Casinos Offer Deals To Attract Visitors
With Las Vegas tourism slumping, some resort companies, including Caesars Entertainment, are reaching out to customers with package deals and other price-reduction benefits.
This week, Caesars Entertainment, one of the prominent hotel-casino companies on the Las Vegas Strip, introduced a “getaway package,” which, for $300, gives guests a two-night stay at Harrah’s Las Vegas, The LINQ or the Flamingo.
Guests at these properties on the east side of the resort corridor also will receive a $200 food and beverage credit. The package price, which run through the end of the year, includes taxes and resort fees.
“There’s no better time to visit Vegas, and this package is an incredible value in the heart of the Strip,” said Dan Walsh, senior vice president and general manager of the three resorts.
Caesars Entertainment is not alone with such cost-savings measures.
On the other side of the Strip, Resorts World Las Vegas has waived resort fees and paid parking through Sept. 11. The resort fee alone saves hotel guests about $55 a night. Throughout the region, resort fees are added to posted room rates to cover Wi-Fi services and other amenities.
Other properties also have taken steps to reduce costs. For instance, free parking is available at the Sahara hotel-casino on the Strip, and dining credits and no resort fees are among perks offered at the Downtown Grand.
Tourism Rebound Expected
According to NewsNation, the number of tourists visiting Las Vegas fell in July for the seventh straight month. Some travel experts attribute that to fewer international visitors and higher overall costs in Las Vegas.
Citing figures from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), the news network reported Las Vegas “saw a 12% decline in visitors in July of 2025 compared to a year ago, hosting nearly 3.1 million people.”
While most megaresorts on the Strip technically are outside city limits, visitors and locals alike refer to the Strip and downtown as “Las Vegas.” The downtown area is within Las Vegas city limits and is home to the Fremont Street Experience and properties such as Circa Resort and the Plaza hotel-casino.
Steve Hill of the LVCVA said officials expect a turnaround, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“I’m going to bet on Vegas,” the LVCVA president and CEO said. “We’re all confident in the future of this city."
Connection To Las Vegas Mob History
For those interested in Las Vegas history, at least two of the hotel-casinos eliminating resort fees temporarily—Resorts World and the Flamingo—have a geographic link to an earlier era when the Mob ran casinos in the valley. Most Mob-era properties, such as the Desert Inn, Riviera, Sands, Dunes and Hacienda, have been demolished.
In June 2021, Resorts World, operated by the publicly traded Genting Group, first opened on the west side of the Strip where the Stardust once stood.
The Stardust began operating in 1958 and for years was one of the most mobbed-up resorts in Las Vegas, including a period in the 1970s when Chicago oddsmaker Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal operated it and three other local Argent Corp. casinos for Midwestern crime families. In the 1995 Las Vegas Mob movie “Casino,” Robert De Niro portrays a character based on Rosenthal. The Stardust was demolished in 2007.
On the opposite side of the Strip, the Flamingo was first opened in December 1946 under the direction of gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. About six months later, Siegel was shot to death at his girlfriend Virginia Hill’s rented Beverly Hills home in a killing that has never been solved. Now operated by publicly traded Caesars Entertainment, the Flamingo is still in business at the same location on the Strip, though the last original building was demolished in 1993.
