LAS VEGAS, NV (KXNT) – Plans were announced this week for when the NFL Draft comes to Las Vegas in April, and those plans come with a big price tag.
From the hotels on the Strip, that is.
Not long after plans were unveiled for the draft, running April 23rd-25th, hotel room rates shot up in anticipation of the massive crowds expected to come to town for the spectacle.
Room rates close to the center of the action will be approaching prices only seen on New Year’s Eve. Examples?
Between April 23rd and 26th, rates at Caesars Palace, right in the heart of where the action takes place, will be 228% higher than the previous week. Rates rise from $217 per night all the way up to $712 per night.
Rates at the Tropicana are higher by 205%. TI? 175% Bellagio? 162%.
The three-day event will include plenty of free stuff for the football fan to take part in, set up in an area around the new Caesars Convention Center.
The Strip will be closing to traffic at Flamingo for the better part of three days April 23rd-25th.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority doesn’t have an estimate yet of how many fans they think will come to town for the draft. Last year’s event in Nashville drew an estimated 600,000.