Major Las Vegas hotels listed on the right, from the Strip's casino hotels to Fremont Street in Downtown Vegas. Each hotel is ranked by your odds-of-an-upgrade calculated from our users' field reports.
We believe the top Strip hotels for upgrades are currently The Wynn, Caesars Palace and Planet Hollywood. Read our reports from recent hotel guests who've tipped the front desk down below.
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Your best chance of an upgrade...
1. Palazzo – 100% Got a Room Upgrade
Five-Diamond & AAA luxury hotel and casino with modern ambiance. Features a 20,000 sq ft Lamborghini and exotic cars showroom.
High Floor/ View of downtown from The cheapest room there is.
I showed up Friday around 7pm, to stay for memorial day weekend. I waited in line for about 10 mins, they had at least 5-6 clerks making the line go pretty quick for how big it was. I get to the desk and it was an older white lady who was very nice. I gave her a $20 sandwich and asked for an complimentary room upgrades. She said it was memorial day weekend, and they were fully booked. After she said this, she actually returned the $20 to me. She went through her computer for a little while, and was able to get us a room on a high floor (I think 21) and it had a decent view of downtown. She also gave us a coupon book, which I'm not sure if everyone gets. The hotel as bad as I thought it would be, I would definitely stay there again.
24th flr lakeview center of hotel from deluxe room (comp).
went on a comp'd tournament. arrived at 8:30 am asked for an upgrade and an early check in. within 45 minutes she called my cell and my room was ready.
High floor (29), with view from Standard suite, low floor, no view.
Had reserved the basic room, low floors, no view. Upon checkin, handed over DL, CC, and 20, and asked if there might be any upgrades available. Clerk set aside the 20, typed away, and found high up room, floor 29, with nice view (per website, these rooms were 50 more per night). Only problem was, that next morning, could hear heavy construction noise from room renovations nearby. Called front desk, and they moved us to an even nicer room. Newly renovated, two 42" plasma tvs, electronic window treatments, etc. Very nice.
Awful experience with check in waited almost 4 hours for a room. We were put in the world tower and had a nice room but the clerk was a jerk offered to upgrade us to a mini suite with a whirl pool bath tub for an extra 40.00 a day. We declined.
Worked exactly according to plan. I checked in around noon for a 4-day conference. I simply gave the clerk the $20 sandwich and asked if any suites were available. He never said what he was giving me, but I got a Canyon View suite on the 7th floor.
One caveat though. A coworker arrived on the same day and tried to do the same thing. I don't know if it was the same clerk or not. The clerk took the money, and gave him a standard strip view room (ironically just across the hall from me). My co-worker thought it worked, though, because all the rooms here are fantastic.
Another co-worker tried to do the trick after the fact, but I think she called the front desk on the phone rather than walking up to someone. She was quoted $200 per night for an upgrade. She was also told that any front desk clerk caught giving out an upgrade would be fired.
one bedroom suite, balcony, strip view from standard.
stayed at MGM Signature for 4 nights,so I decided to try with $40 (20 might have looked mean for 4 nights). the girl at desk at first said that she could not upgrade as our room was already allocated. I still had my cc,id and tip in my hand,so i said thats a pity and went to take it back. As I did she said to hold on and started punching the keyboard and hey presto! a room became available. She said she couldn't give it until the morning but 10 minutes after we got to our room she called to say that it was ready. We had been travelling for nearly 24 hours(Europe) and it was our 20th anniversary, which I mentioned when trying to negotiate. It seemed to help. Also there was a gift of Champagne and strawberries dipped in chocolate when we got to the Suite. The room was great,probably worth 10 times the $40 tip for 4 nights. BE sure to mention the anniversary
$20 in between cc and dl. guy typed like a madman and came up with a "p" room that was in the corner with windows on two walls looking out over the bellagio fountains. flat screened tv, newly renovated. clearly the best $ i spent in vegas.
I arrived late around 10:30pm and I was the only person at check in. There were two clerks one of which was being trained. They called us up and we acted like we didn't hear and we went to a clerk that was by herself. When she asked for a CC and and ID I slipped her the sandwich and she immediately started typing into her computer and gave us the Red Room on the 29th floor
Standard Strip/volcano view High Floor from Standard non smoking.
Checked in at 11 AM. Was offered a upgrade to tower suite for fifty more a night. We passed asked for a high floor and volocano/strip view. We were given a room on the 12th floor with a nice view of the strip and volocano. So it sort of worked. But It was christmas day so I did not mind giving the clerk the 20 dollar tip anyways.
