- People always ask me, how expensive is Vegas nowadays?
Well, we just wrapped up three days in Vegas
with a family of five and in this video I'm gonna show you
how much money we spent.
Alright, let's go.
First, let's talk about getting into Las Vegas.
We live in Orange County, California.
We could have flown Southwest Airlines.
It's about an hour and a half flight,
costs somewhere between $50 and $150 each way,
but with five people that adds up pretty quick.
So we decided to drive, myself, OC Girl,
the spunky princess, OC girl's mom,
and OC girl's brother were in the SUV with us
on the way to Vegas.
We arrived onto the strip at about 9:00 PM
and checked into the world famous
center strip Bellagio Hotel,
the the one with the big fountain in front of it.
And actually this is one of the reasons
why we made this trip
because the Bellagio had recently renovated their rooms
and that they were offering relatively inexpensive prices
Thanksgiving week.
The first two nights we got for $133 each night.
The third night which is the day before Thanksgiving,
was $194, and because I'm an Mlife Gold,
no parking fees and no resort fees.
Otherwise it'd be another $18 a night for self parking
and $45 a night for the resort fee.
With five of us we did have to get two rooms,
that total's up to be $522 per room
or a total of $1,045.
But we technically didn't pay this until we checked out.
And so I'm gonna wait to add this up to the total
until we check out on day number three.
After a great first night's sleep, and by the way,
full review on the Bellagio Hotel coming soon,
we were hungry for breakfast.
We got breakfast at the Palio Espresso Cafe
which is basically right down
from the main hotel tower's elevators for $38.
We got two cappuccinos, two Italian donuts,
and a yogurt parfait.
After breakfast I wanted to see if I was lucky.
And there's this new slot machine at the Bellagio.
It's called Gogo Claw.
This has been making the rounds around Vegas
and it is basically a crane game as a slot machine.
To play, it's five dollars each play
and there are these little balls in it
like you're doing one of these stuffed animal things.
It has a joystick that you move around
and then you push the button to drop the claw.
But it turns out this thing is entirely luck based.
There's no skill in it.
That if you actually win
and you pick up a ball like I did right here,
but the luck engine doesn't say you win,
then it just drops the ball.
Slightly deceiving, but that was my first $20
of gambling play.
At this point I broke off from the family
to go shoot some videos solo down the strip.
Updates on my Vegas guides,
what's new in 2023, updated travel tips.
Stay tuned for those soon.
Then for lunch I stopped into the Planet Hollywood
at Earl of Sandwich
and for $15 I got the holiday turkey sandwich
with turkey, stuffing, cranberry, and gravy.
Super good, chips and a drink.
I don't really know what everybody else got
'cause I wasn't with them,
but let's assume theirs costs the same as mine.
$15 times four, 60 bucks added to the family total.
After lunch I walked down the strip and made it all the way
to Circus Circus 'cause I wanted to check
out their new five dollar coin slot machines
where I put in $20.
Actually, I had to exchange my $20 at the booth
to get these $5 coins which I gambled $15 worth
on the slot machine.
Didn't win anything.
One of them came home with me
for a kind of cheap five dollar souvenir.
For dinner we reassembled the family of five,
which by the way is the same number as the number
of original Avengers, and went over to Mott 32
at the Palazzo.
This is a fairly high end Chinese restaurant from Hong Kong
that specializes in Peking duck,
unfortunately which they were sold out of
'cause they only have 25 a day.
But instead we had a number of their other items
including the baked chashu bao pork buns
that the spunky princess really enjoyed.
We also had their xiaolongbao,
some minced Peking duck meat with lettuce cup
served on the side, some crab fried rice,
some really good shrimp,
and some also really good noodles with beef.
Total damages here, not too bad for a high end Chinese meal,
$197.98 including the tip.
By the way, I'm rounding all of this up to the dollar.
So $198 to the total please.
After dinner we went over to Area 15,
which is Vegas's newest immersive experience
shopping mall I guess.
Anyway, admission here is free to come into
the main part of it.
We wandered around probably for about an hour
just checking out all the different psychedelic things.
The spunky princess really loved it here too
and so we didn't actually go in anything.
This was free.
Omega Mart is the big attraction here.
And by the way if you wanna see a full video on that
which does have a fairly high admission fee,
you can check out a length of description below
or at the end of this video for my full tour of Omega Mart.
But lemme tell you it actually,
I think is worth it to go in.
And our final order of business on our first full day
in Vegas was to stop and get some desserts to eat back
in the room and some breakfast for the next day.
So I didn't have to stand in that stupidly long line
at the Bellagio coffee shop again.
We stopped at Dominique Ansel at Caesar's Palace.
This is the inventor of the cronut.
He's got really delicious pastries.
We spent $59.44 cents on three pastries, a cronut,
a DKA, and a cookie.
The three pastries were for dessert tonight
and the cronut and the DKA was for breakfast tomorrow.
Now, after a good night's sleep
we did need some drinks to go with those pastries.
Mobile order from Starbucks of a coffee
and a venti milk, eight dollars.
On our way outta the hotel
I put another $20 into Gogo Claw.
Still not a winner.
Should have taken the first game as a hint.
Now being in Vegas on the week of Thanksgiving
we wanted to have a fairly festive gluttonous meal
and nothing is more gluttonous than the Vegas buffet.
And the number one buffet right now
is the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesar's Palace.
$64.99 cents for four people.
Total that up and then you get $281.73.
Good news is kids under four eat free.
And so the spunky princess
she really got to have herself an ice cream coma
with her free all you can eat ice cream here.
We really enjoyed the buffet here
especially because we could make reservations
which meant we didn't have to stand in line
though we did have to make the reservation
about two months in advance.
After changing into some more comfortable pants
and loosening our belt buckles
we went over to the Neon Museum.
This is the first time I've ever been there.
I've always wanted to go see this
but their tickets are always booked out
whenever I happen to go
and I don't book the tickets all that early.
This was really neat.
$72 for all four of us to go in.
Spunky princess was free.
A great place to see all these old historic neon signs
including the Hard Rock Cafe,
the original Plaza Hotel and more.
If you're a history buff, check this one out.
For dinner we went over to one of my favorite place to eat
in all of Las Vegas, the food court at Resorts World.
Over here we had some Singaporean chicken rice,
some delicious Malaysian noodles
under really weird looking lights,
but they were quite tasty.
About $15 per entree here.
Also got a tiger sugar boba drink that was really expensive
at eight dollars.
Total, about a hundred bucks for the five of us
to eat dinner but it was really good.
After dinner we headed just outside the food court to
Enchant at Resorts World,
home of the world's largest holiday illuminated maze
which you may have already seen my full video on.
This one was a lot of fun.
$42 a person,
plus some junk facility fees gets us up to $189.
But it was really awesome and I think worth the price
though the food and drink inside was really expensive.
We didn't have to eat it
because we already had tasty food at the food court before.
We liked Dominique Ansel so much the night before,
we decided to have a round two.
Three more pastries, two brekky breads, $50.88.
After three nights at the Bellagio, it was finally time
for us to check out and settle our bills.
So $1,045 for both rooms and the taxes added to the total
plus $20 as a nice tip for the housekeepers.
Now for whatever reason my tummy wasn't feeling so good.
I wasn't doing any drinking, but we had to stop at CVS
and get some Pepto Bismol, $11.99.
For lunch we did the resorts World Food Court round two
where we had some Vietnamese fa noodle soup,
some pan fried Chinese dumplings, an onigiri,
some yakitori, some more of those really delicious
Malaysian fried noodles.
And this really good Malaysian style Indian curry
with some fresh made bread.
Total damages, add a hundred bucks to the total please.
Now before heading back on the road to Orange County
we stopped by Starbucks at Resorts World for a coffee
and a large iced tea, $12.
Definitely extra Las Vegas strip pricing
at this casino location of Starbucks.
And then we needed to get some gas.
Gas was $78.
Let's go ahead and double that since we also had to fill up
the gas tank once we got back to California.
And since we were driving back on Thanksgiving Day,
not a lot of places were open to make a pit stop
and a restroom stop.
But one of my favorites that was open was Eddie World
in Yermo, California.
This is a gigantic rest stop that has
really clean restrooms.
And the spunky princess really enjoyed
her strawberry ice cream for $4.75.
And that brings us to a grand total of $2,465
for a three night trip to Las Vegas for five people,
four adults and one two year old.
Well fellow explorers if you enjoyed this video
you might enjoy some of my other videos on Las Vegas.
Do you wanna see some of the cheapest eats
on the Las Vegas strip?
Maybe this was all too expensive.
You wanna see my full walkthrough of Omega Mart,
or you wanna see where some of my favorite hotels are?
You'll find links on the screen to those videos
or more in the description below.
As usual, I won't say goodbye 'cause I'm gonna see you
in one of those videos.