How to score a Vegas Hotel Room Upgrade

You have just arrived in Vegas. Now, you are waiting in the check-in line at your hotel and you have got one thing concerning you. No, it isn’t shows, beer or 21. It is an upgrade. Upgrades are a variable thing in the hospitality business. We have all heard the stories of somebody slipping the reception desk agent a $10, $20 or $50 and then getting an upgrade to a fantastic room or suite facing the street / sea / park / bay or in Las Vegas, in the Strip. Still, that only worked when the hotel had vacancies or when the reception desk clerk was in a particularly happy mood.

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