Linq hotel
March 2025 4 nights
🎰 The LINQ Las Vegas – You Can Make Vegas as Cheap or Expensive as You Like!
We absolutely love Vegas, so after our first trip staying at the Bellagio, we wondered whether we’d enjoy it as much staying somewhere much more budget-friendly.
The answer? Absolutely!
We stayed at The LINQ for 4 nights and had a brilliant time.
📍 Location, location, location!
The LINQ is right in the middle of the Strip, so the location is ideal. It makes getting around really easy and you’re surrounded by casinos, restaurants, shops and things to do.
The hotel itself is clean and perfectly adequate. It’s not 5-star luxury, but let’s be honest, you’re in Vegas — who is actually sitting in their room?!
Even at 3am, the casinos are still going full swing. This city genuinely does not sleep. There are no clocks, time disappears and suddenly you’re wondering why you’re eating at 2am! 😂
We met some lovely people and just loved the whole atmosphere.
🎶 Things we did
We saw Maroon 5 at Dolby Live, which was absolutely brilliant. It was around a 30-minute walk down towards New York-New York and made for a great night.
We also ate at Top of the World at The STRAT. It isn’t cheap, but WOW — what an experience. The views were incredible and definitely worth doing at least once.
And we even had a cheeky $5 bet in the casino before going upstairs… and won $500!
So technically, dinner paid for itself. 😂
We did loads of walking this time and, having learned from our first visit, we knew which areas to avoid and were much more confident dealing with the people on the streets.
💰 Vegas on a budget
Vegas can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be.
We mostly used cash so we could budget ourselves each day, and luckily we had a very good run in the casinos. We actually came home with money we’d won — which is always a nice way to end a holiday!
Then, just to really rub it in, we won another $800 at the airport on the way home! 😂
Obviously, don’t go to Vegas expecting to win — we were very lucky. Have a cheeky bet if you want, but trust your gut and walk away when you’ve had enough.
We loved playing at Horseshoe and Flamingo, and even popped into Luxor, which was well worth a look.
🍳 Food & prices
Yes, the Strip is expensive.
Two bottles of water, a coffee and a tea nearly cost us $50! 😳
Our advice: stock up on water at a supermarket.
Food is a completely different story. You can spend a fortune, but you absolutely don’t have to.
Planet Hollywood had some great food towards the back, and on the side of The LINQ you can grab a full breakfast for next to nothing with a decent brew — compared with the eye-watering prices we experienced at the Bellagio!
Do your research before you go. You really can make Vegas work for your budget.
🏨 The LINQ
The hotel was busy, as you’d expect, and the pools were open and busy too.
The rooms were clean and did exactly what we needed them to do.
We were out exploring most of the time anyway, so for us there was no point paying luxury prices for a room we were barely going to see.
We also loved walking around the different hotels. Each one has its own character and there’s always something to see.
💵 Tips, tips and more tips!
Vegas definitely has a tipping culture.
They expect tips for pretty much everything, so take plenty of $1 bills with you.
If you’re playing in a casino and the girls bringing drinks are looking after you, tip them a few dollars and they’ll often remember you and keep coming back with drinks. 🍹
Taxis are really easy to get from the backs of the hotels too.
And if you’re checking out but have a late flight, you can leave your cases in the hotel’s luggage hold and carry on exploring for the day.
🌡️ Weather
We had temperatures in the mid-30s, so shorts and T-shirts were definitely the order of the day.
Just remember the air conditioning is EVERYWHERE and some places feel absolutely freezing compared with outside!
❤️ Overall
Our first Vegas trip was full-on — Grand Canyon, seeing all the famous sights, upgrades and trying to fit everything in.
This time was completely different.
We just took each day as it came, walked around, explored hotels, ate where we fancied, had a few drinks, gambled a little and simply enjoyed being in our favourite place.
And honestly?
We loved it just as much as our first trip.
The Bellagio was an amazing first Vegas experience, but staying somewhere like The LINQ proved that you don’t need a luxury hotel to have an incredible Vegas holiday.
Four nights was a lovely little break and we came home already talking about going back.
Vegas, we will be back! 🎰❤️
Just remember: take cash, take plenty of $1 bills, buy your water from the supermarket, wear comfy shoes, trust your gut… and accept that you’re probably going to lose track of what day it is! 😂
