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Originally Posted by madlex
Maybe it’s not horrifically expensive to travel abroad, but if I compare the $9k I paid just for flights for 3 trips to Europe for our family of 3 last year to going to Vegas which costs around $500 round trip for the 3 of us per trip, that’s a difference of $2500/trip on average.
Somehow this discussion went off track. Let this be my attempt to straighten it up, or my last words in this thread.
The point of departure was a comparison of the cost, for a couple, to enjoy a couple of trips to Las Vegas, staying at a 4 or 5 star resort (Aria, Vdara, Wynncore, Venetian, Caesars, etc), feasting on better or fine dining, and gambling daily for the sake of entertainment. A total between $5k and $10k was mentioned.
It was asserted, that in fact better value could be achieved on the same budget
anywhere in the world for two weeks.
Few would dispute, that replacing the Strips resorts' geographically central, luxurious, spacious, well maintained full service hotel experience with a lower grade decentralized hotel/guest house or with AirBnB is way cheaper. You can do that in LV as well, and you will save a bundle.
Likewise, rather than eating at same Strips' high(er) end dining outlets (which, btw, still are competitive to same name chef's restaurants in other metropoles), enjoying memorable meals at small
pittoresque local eateries will save you some money.
And clearly, spending your awake hours on the beach, in museums, or exploring beautiful outdoor locales and vistas rather than gambling (funny enough you can do both in LV), will have a major positive impact on your travel budget.
The only problem is, that in this context, you are comparing apples to inner tubes. Of course you can have a nice budget vacation with your children many places in the world. But that is not what this discussion is about.
When you consider
comparable classes of central urban accommodation, dining, and gambling entertainment, I stand by my understanding, that Las Vegas, resort-, parking fees and general price gouging included, is still better value than most other
comparable places in the world.