Resorts World Las Vegas Eliminates Resort Fees

Resorts World Las Vegas, one of the newer resorts on the Strip, is doing away with resort fees through Sept. 11, saving hotel guests about $55 a night.

Resort fees, which cover amenities such as internet service, are added to the nightly room rate that hotels post. So far, Resorts World in the only property on the Las Vegas Strip this summer to abolish resort fees at least temporarily. On Las Vegas Facebook forums, these fees typically are the target of negative comments.

This comes as tourism has experienced a downturn in Las Vegas. According to KTNV-TV, visitation is down more than 6% this year.

Parking Fees Also Ditched

Resort fees aren’t the only visitor expense Resorts World Las Vegas is doing away with. The property also is providing complimentary self-parking through Aug. 18.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, free self-parking is a “rare perk” on the Strip, with only Resorts World, Treasure Island, the Sahara, Circus Circus and Casino Royale offering free parking.

On its X feed, Resorts World Las Vegas posted: “Your summer getaway should feel like one from start to finish. No resort fees. Complimentary parking. All for you.”

The red-tinted Resorts World houses three brands—Hilton, Conrad and Crockfords. 

Resorts World Built Where Mob's Stardust Stood

For some Las Vegas visitors, the Resorts World location on the northwest end of the Strip has a significant link to area’s Mob past.

Resorts World was built at the site of the now-demolished Stardust hotel-casino. For decades, the Stardust was one of the most mobbed-up properties in the Las Vegas Valley, including a period during the 1970s when it was one of four Argent Corp. casinos overseen by Chicago oddsmaker Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal for Midwestern crime families. 

That period of Rosenthal’s life is dramatized in the 1995 Las Vegas Mob movie “Casino,” featuring Robert De Niro as a character based on Rosenthal. In the movie, the Stardust was given a fictional name, the Tangiers.

These days, replica Stardust signs are on display inside an entrance at Resorts World and on a wall at the sportsbook.

When it began operating in 2021, Resorts World, owned by the Malaysia-based Genting Group, became the first hotel-casino to open on the Strip since the Cosmopolitan in 2010. Resorts World and the Fontainebleau are the newest major properties on the north end of the Strip.