Las Vegas itself, it’s all about the game. Vegas hotels harrahs bursting with casinos line the Las Vegas Strip and downtown Las Vegas, and are dispersed in suburbs such as Lake Las Vegas, Summerlin, and Green Valley.

Just as you were considering hotels las vega cannot possibly manage another casino resort, another one (or two) goes up, bigger than the one next door, with new polish, new buzz, and a new and improved buffet and steakhouse.

The lure of the excellent life is everywhere, but it can be costly. Buffets boast Kobe beef and charge up to $38 for a dinner spot, while some production or headliner shows are seeing more than two C-notes for a seat. However, although no longer the bargain they once were, room prices are still lower than those in many other urban or resort areas. Even the exclusive vegas hotels harrahs such as Wynn Las Vegas has rates under $200 now and then, and rooms at Aladdin, terribles hotel las vegas and Harrah’s sometimes start under $90 which can be regarded as discount hotels las vegas.

Here’s a rundown of some of the surprisingly hotel-rich areas of vegas hotels harrahs:

* The Strip: Officially named Las Vegas Boulevard South, the Strip is the heart of Vegas tourism and has the biggest concentration of the city’s top hotels and shows. Accommodations range from seedy motels to high class vegas hotels casinos, and although perfect deals are available, you generally get what you pay for.

* Convention Center: Just east of the Strip, the Las Vegas Convention Center is the largest of the city’s convention spaces, with 3.2 million square feet of space. While still close enough to the Strip to make getting there on foot possible, the hotels clustered around the convention center area specifically serve the steady stream of convention traffic.

* Downtown: Downtown Las Vegas is centered on Fremont Street between Main and 9th streets, and was the traditional center for hotels and casinos. There are still many hotels and casinos, but nowadays, the focus of downtown is the Fremont Street Experience, a four-block pedestrian promenade with entertainment, shopping, and light and sound shows. Taxi and bus service connects downtown to the Strip and to all vegas hotels harrahs.

Value picks

Here are the top five value properties for vegas hotels harrahs, found at center Strip. Note that rack, or published, rates listed are just a guideline. Depending on the day or month and whether conventions got there first, rates can double or rouse by more than half of all vegas hotels harrahs.

mandalay bay hotel las vegas: Located on of the city’s busiest corners, Bally’s was the place to be in the ’70s as the original movie-themed MGM Grand, but a fire in 1980 took the glam out of the glory. Now it offers some of the biggest guest rooms in town, a large pool, a stylish spa, a shopping arcade, and a burlesque production show that has been running for more than two decades. The location cannot be beat, and a pedestrian corridor connects the hotel’s casino to the cobbled streets of Paris. Paris, Las Vegas that is. Rooms generally start as low as $59 per night.