Where to Find Last Minute Vegas Hotel Deals

Sophia S. Mark
Last minute travel tends to be more expensive because travelers are forced to pay the asking prices for any remaining plane tickets or hotel rooms. Fortunately, with the explosion of online discount and bargain travel booking websites, the price of last minute travel has become more affordable. In fact, sometimes it becomes cheaper to take advantage of last minute travel deals than to plan your trip well in advance.

Last minute Las Vegas deals are especially abundant as several hotels and casinos aim to fill their rooms as much as possible week after week. It is up to pleasure and business travelers to take advantage of the several discount booking websites that advertise any last minute details available instead of booking a regular priced hotel room.

Here are five of my favorite websites to find last minute hotel deals in Las Vegas. Many times the very best deals are advertised on the websites, but by doing a simple search on each, you can find other hotel deals that will save you plenty of cash.

HotWire.com
Hot wire is one of the best websites to book last minute hotel rooms with. The website specializes in finding users the lowest available prices at the very last minute, and even better deals can be found if you have a little leeway with the dates you can travel. Users for HotWire should be aware that you do not get to pick the exact hotel that you are paying for until you have already booked your rooms.

Because of the booking system that HotWire uses, they acquire several rooms from several different hotels and offer them at the same price which is determined by their star rating. You do have a choice of the area of a city and the star rating you are willing to pay for when you book though. Other than the anonymity of the hotel room upon booking, HotWire is an excellent place to find last minute hotel deals to Las Vegas.

Priceline.com
Priceline has been a favorite discount website since it opened for business, and it is a great place to find last minute hotel rooms. While the selection of hotel rooms are a little more sparse than search results yield with a few weeks travel time, the listings that are present are offered with huge discounts. Users can also take advantage of the Name Your Own Price feature which lets you name a price for a hotel room in a star rating class of your choosing. I have been able to get a hotel room using this feature for discounts up to 60% of the regular price using this popular feature.

Hotels.com
Hotels.com specializes in offering discount hotel room deals to users, especially those that need last minute rooms to well known hotels. Las Vegas hotel room packages and deals are well advertised on this website and most of the time they are from the best known hotels on the strip. Make sure that you always check their last minute deals selection for the best selection of savings and all of their bookings come with a lowest price guarantee.

Travelocity.com
Travelocity has several last minute hotel deals daily, ranging from something to get you out the door this weekend or later on in the day. With a special section of the site dedicated solely to bringing you these deals, you can be sure that there is something available that you can afford. And with Travelocity, you get to pick the hotel that you will be staying at so there is no guessing where you will end up.

Vegas.com
Vegas.com is a travel website that is dedicated to travel deals and packages solely for the city of Las Vegas. Because it is dedicated to travel deals to the city, Vegas.com is able to find some of the best hotel packages for visitors and is a great place to start or fall back on in your search for the best hotel deals.

Published by Sophia S. Mark

Sophia is a freelance writer from Chicago who loves to share her city with readers. Named one of AC's Top 1,000 Content Producers in the 2007 People's Media Awards, Sophie enjoys writing about Chicago, fash...  View profile

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  • Ramy10/5/2008

    What a great article and great tips!!
    My website: http://www.lastminuteboeker.nl

  • Linda M. McCloud8/26/2008

    Thanks for the tips.

  • Pam Gaulin8/19/2008

    Woo hoo! Great article!

  • Ryan Christopher DeVault8/14/2008

    These are really good tips for last minute people like myself. :)

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