Would you recommend a rental car for 4 nights in LV?
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I'm staying at the Rio next time I go to Vegas (which is really soon!). I plan to rent a car. Rio is right next to the freeway, so I can get to the good games downtown in minutes, compared to almost an hour when I take the deuce on the strip. That time savings will pay for itself in EV. I plan to also visit the casinos in the suburbs.
Assuming $150 for a rental for a 4 day trip, you save $30 on the airport cab fare and $28 on the bus pass, both of which you have to pay anyway. You can make up $92 of EV pretty easily with the time you save traveling within Vegas.
Last time I went to Vegas I barely got any sleep. I actually slept on the Deuce bus on my way back to the Flamingo after playing all night downtown. I slept only a few hours till the evening, when I woke up to play poker with the fish, then headed back downtown on the Deuce to play blackjack mostly heads up.
Assuming $150 for a rental for a 4 day trip, you save $30 on the airport cab fare and $28 on the bus pass, both of which you have to pay anyway. You can make up $92 of EV pretty easily with the time you save traveling within Vegas.
Last time I went to Vegas I barely got any sleep. I actually slept on the Deuce bus on my way back to the Flamingo after playing all night downtown. I slept only a few hours till the evening, when I woke up to play poker with the fish, then headed back downtown on the Deuce to play blackjack mostly heads up.
I rented a car one time, have been to vegas about 12 times (go twice a year). It's a pain in the ass trying to park close to where you what to be. I take the monorail that runs behind MGM and goes way north. That "Gold" line deuse I think it's called,(makes only a couple stops) gets you from the stip to Fremont as fast as you can drive, i think it's $7 for 24 hrs
Coach R said:
I rented a car one time, have been to vegas about 12 times (go twice a year). It's a pain in the ass trying to park close to where you what to be. I take the monorail that runs behind MGM and goes way north. That "Gold" line deuse I think it's called,(makes only a couple stops) gets you from the stip to Fremont as fast as you can drive, i think it's $7 for 24 hrs
Every casino has a free valet that gets you as close to the front door as humanly possible. Spring for the buck or two tip.
If you think any bus or car driving on LVB will get you there as quick as taking the nearby steets, you have a lot to learn about Vegas. From my timeshare at Flamingo and Koval, I can be in the Cortez gambling in under twenty minutes, often quicker, the Rio or Orleans in ten minutes and anywhere else in Vegas quite quickly. The only time I've driven the strip in two years was at 3AM on a weekday.