Peter Greenberg: Flight and Hotel Arrangements in Las Vegas

By: Peter Greenberg | Source: AARP.org | 2009-07-09

Q: Hello, Peter! My wife and I are meeting another family in Las Vegas for a two-week RV trip to national parks. We need to stay in Las Vegas the night before we pick up the RV and the night we drop it off. We have the RV reserved, but we still need flights and a hotel. Is it cheaper to find a hotel-flight package deal or to search separately for hotels and flights?

–John
Old Town, Maine

A: Package deals generally encompass a flight plus a hotel stay of one or more consecutive nights. Since you need a hotel for two nonconsecutive nights, I think you'd be better off booking your airfare and hotel separately.

If you still want to try your luck at finding a package deal, don't rely entirely on the Internet. You can start your research there, and sometimes Web sites like Priceline or Kayak have some great package deals. But because you're dealing with intermittent reservations, you may run into some complications.

So, I recommend that after you do your research, call the companies' toll-free numbers to talk to a human being. Given the current law of supply and demand in Las Vegas, you should have no problem negotiating a good deal once you're in Vegas.