Do all Las Vegas hotels charge a resort fee?

No. Of the 40 Las Vegas hotels we looked up (through October 21, 2026), 27 state a mandatory fee on their own websites, 1 states that it charges none, and 12 are not confirmed on the hotel’s site either way. The median stated fee is $50.00 a night before tax, and stated fees run from $10.00 to $55.00.

The one that states it charges none is Hampton Inn Tropicana.

A resort fee is a mandatory nightly charge the hotel collects at the desk, on top of the room rate. What is a resort fee covers the charge and the law.

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Between 10.5% and 13.38% of the room rate in Clark County outside the cities, and 13% or 13.38% inside the City of Las Vegas, depending on where the hotel stands. It is charged on a resort fee as well. We do not say which rate a given hotel charges: nothing we recorded places a hotel on those maps. The Las Vegas hotel tax rate has each government’s own words: who collects it, which rate applies where, and the tax on a fee.

Of the 27 hotels we checked that state a fee, 26 say tax is added on top of it, and 1 does not say either way. SAHARA Las Vegas states the rate as 13.38% on its own page, and we use that one rate for every Las Vegas hotel that says tax is added. It is the highest rate Clark County or the City of Las Vegas sets, so a hotel taxed at a lower rate adds less. At the median stated fee, $50.00 a night becomes $56.69 with the tax, and $170.07 over 3 nights.

Tax is not a hidden charge. It is a government charge outside the headline rate, and the FTC’s fee rule lets a seller show it separately. The fee is the part that was moved out of the price; the tax follows it. We show both and say which is which.

We do not say which part of town charges more, because nothing we recorded can tell us. A row carries at most a street address, and nothing that places a hotel on the Strip, downtown or anywhere else. Drawing that line ourselves would be a claim the rows do not make. The fee is what reaches your bill, and the lists above are sorted by it.

Choose from the no-fee list. 1 hotel we checked states on its own website that it charges none, and its row links the page that says so. That is the only sure way to pay nothing.

Know it before you book, not at the desk. The hotel collects the fee separately from whatever the booking site charged your card, so a total that looked complete can be short by the fee and its tax. The hotel’s own page is the source, and the calculator totals it for your dates.

Switching booking sites does not escape it. The hotel charges the fee whichever site sold the room; switching hotels is what changes it.

We measured this on September 16, 2026. Of 40 Las Vegas hotels priced for a 3-night stay, 36 returned a resort fee on at least one rate plan, and at 32 of those another rate plan for the same hotel left it out. The median fee left out was $119.99 over the stay. A sort by price puts the plan without the fee first, so one site’s “cheapest” can be another site’s price with the fee taken out. Why the same room shows two prices has the measurement and what we do about it.