Vegas Q&A: What Money Should I Bring?
UPDATED: 11:17 a.m. EST February 23, 2004
Question: What's the best advice you have about travelers bringing money to Las Vegas? Should we use cash, traveler's cheques or credit cards? What about exchanging currency?
Donna in Alberta, Canada
Answer: My advice is to budget your entertainment, food and hotel money in one column and use a credit card to cover it, then put your gambling budget in another column and bring cash or traveler's cheques to cover that.
Bring just the one credit card and leave your ATM card, all other traveler cheques, your checkbook and all but maybe a small store of emergency cash at home.
If you keep your gambling budget separate from everything else, it's a lot easier to keep track of exactly how much money you're losing in the casino. Plus, if you have the fortitude to do so, you can stand by the mantra that once your gambling budget is gone, you stop gambling. If you don't have the fortitude to do that, leaving the ATM card and everything else at home will keep you from running to the cash machine to increase that particular line item.
You can exchange currency all over town, including at many of the major hotel-casinos. Different places take different currencies, but I think everyone will cover Canadian dollars so you should be fine.
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Answer: My advice is to budget your entertainment, food and hotel money in one column and use a credit card to cover it, then put your gambling budget in another column and bring cash or traveler's cheques to cover that.
Bring just the one credit card and leave your ATM card, all other traveler cheques, your checkbook and all but maybe a small store of emergency cash at home.
If you keep your gambling budget separate from everything else, it's a lot easier to keep track of exactly how much money you're losing in the casino. Plus, if you have the fortitude to do so, you can stand by the mantra that once your gambling budget is gone, you stop gambling. If you don't have the fortitude to do that, leaving the ATM card and everything else at home will keep you from running to the cash machine to increase that particular line item.
You can exchange currency all over town, including at many of the major hotel-casinos. Different places take different currencies, but I think everyone will cover Canadian dollars so you should be fine.
If you have a question you'd like to submit, click here.
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