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This page covers Las Vegas comps, high roller comps, free drinks, cheap food, and cheap rooms.

Las Vegas Casino Comps

Everything is free in Las Vegas! Or so it seams if you watch the hours and hours each month of cable TV travel shows and listen to your friends brag when they return from their visit. Let's help you through the confusion often surrounding Las Vegas casino comps (complimentaries -- free stuff).

It isn't quite that simple, but Las Vegas offers some freebies and cheapies even for the low rollers. If you are willing to give the casino a little play, you'll get more. If you are a serious gambler (either in terms of hours played, amount bet, or both), the casinos will really roll out the comps for you.

Free Drinks

You don't have to be a big gambler to get the most common casino comp of all. If you are playing any casino game (slots or tables), the cocktail waitress will be around to take your order for a free drink. Every casino does this as long as you are playing, period. Don't try to fake like you are playing at a slot machine. They are smarter than that. And if you want to see the waitress again, a $1 tip per drink is the norm for her to bring you that free drink.

Cheap Food

Las Vegas continues to be home to some incredible food bargains. $4.95 complete prime rib or steak dinners, 99 cent shrimp cocktail, $1 beers, and amazing buffets for the money. We have over 100 great food specials listed for you on our Las Vegas Food Deals page!

Cheap Rooms

Whether your are gambling or not, you can take advantage of the incredible Las Vegas room rates. Except during a few peak periods, casino gambling in Las Vegas keeps the cost of the rooms down. You'd be hard pressed to find the same level of room you can get for the money here in Las Vegas anywhere else.

Important note: There are numerous ways to book Las Vegas rooms, and not all are discount reservations. Even on this site, we carry advertising and other hotel booking information from a number of companies. If you are looking for value and want to compare discount rates across the widest variety of Las Vegas hotels, we suggest you use our Discount Room Search.

Free Rooms, Free Food, Free Shows

Knowing that people are easily intimidated, the casinos have set up slot "clubs" where anyone can join. You simply insert your club card into the machine you are playing, lose a you bankroll for the visit, and you might earn enough points for a free t-shirt or buffet.

They keep you playing at one place because you want to earn points (heaven forbid you go to the casino across the street and have your luck turn good) and they know you will be more likely to put in that extra $20 or $100 because you are "earning points" (for that $15 t-shirt or buffet).

We go into the details about these cards on our players (slot) clubs page.

It isn't as dismal as it sounds, and if you play a bit they might send you cheap room offers in the mail after you get home. Play a lot? Read on:

If you play heavy and use the card and they will send you offers for free room nights, shows, food, you name it depending on your level of play. But if you have a gambling budget of $1000 or more a day, ask to speak to a "casino host". Tell them of your gambling budget and habits and they can authorize a better level of comps for you.

The first visit, they will probably give you a "casino rate" (cheap room) and then refund it plus other hotel expenditures when you check out. Provided that you gave them the play they suggested.

Don't gamble just to please the host. They aren't kissing your ass for free, and it is insane to lose an extra $500 or $1000 when that would have paid for your room, food, and show. But if you are going to play at that level anyway (and are prepared to "disappoint" the host if you cut your playing time because of a bad luck streak), you might as well get treated like ""Mr. Big"!